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Gina Schwarz

Jazzbassist and Composer Gina Schwarz studied Jazz-Bass and Accordion at the Conservatory Vienna and Bass (Popular Music) at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna (Mag.art), further studies at Berklee College of Music, Boston and in New York (Buster Williams, Cecil McBee, Dennis Irvin...) supported by the Austrian government since Oct 2011: Teaching Bass (Popular Music) at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna

Musical Collaboration amongst others with: George Garzone, Jim Black, Gerry Hemingway, Andy Middleton, Wolfgang Reisinger; Erwin Schrott, Jose Feliciano.

Live-performances/ concert tours/ recordings with:

as Leader: !! NEW RELEASE !! Gina Schwarz Unit feat. Jim Black (CD "Woodclock" 2016)

Gina Schwarz (CD “Jazzista“ 2013) Co-Produktion: Richard Oesterreicher/ harmonica (CD “Airbass“ 2008) Debut CD Gina Schwarz & SchwarzMarkt (CD “SchwarzMarkt“ 2006)

as Co-Leader: Bass Instinct - Doublebass Sextett (CD “Butterfly” 2010) Bass Instinct - Doublebass Sextett (CD “Illusionista” 2008) In the Zone feat. George Garzone /USA (CD “In the Zone“ 2007) Global Glue (CD “Eardance“ 2005)

as Side(wo)man: Mike Scharf & Urban Dreamtime (CD “One Songbook“ 2011) Robert Bachner Big Band (DVD “Live in Vienna“ 2009) HH Jazz Quartet (CD “Pictures and Scenes“ 2007) Robert Bachner Big Band feat. Karin Bachner (CD “Spotlight on Ella Fitzgerald" 2007) Robert Bachner Big Band (CD “Moments of Noise“ 2006)

Awards

Awards: - Scholarship “BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC“, Boston, USA (live-audition in Perugia, Italy) - Berklee-Best-Award - Winner of the MUSIC MAKER-Compositons-Contest, Jazz 2002 - Winner of the Austrian "Hans Koller Preis“ - Side(wo)man of the year, 2007 - “Best performances of the year“ in “All about Jazz - New York Best of 2007“ concert with "Bass Instinct“ Austrian Cultural Forum, N.Y.


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Album Review

Muriel Grossmann: Universal Code

Read "Universal Code" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Infectious is a word much maligned of late. What with a worldwide pandemic, the word has come to stand in for other terms such as contagious and transmittable. The word though has another meaning as demonstrated by saxophonist Muriel Grossmann's Universal Code. Infectious can also mean irresistible or compelling in an infectious way. Together with her quartet, Grossman broadcasts her engrossing message as a cross between soul jazz and uplifting spiritual music. Universal Code contains the Paris-born, ...

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Muriel Grossmann: Quiet Earth

Read "Quiet Earth" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Anyone familiar with Tibetan Buddhism will know that once their spiritual leader or Dalai Lama dies, officials set off in search of his reincarnation, interviewing and examining potential postulants. Listening to Quiet Earth by Austrian saxophonist Muriel Grossmann one cannot help but ask if she might be the reincarnation or avatar of the late John Coltrane. Certainly that is one heavy label to place upon Grossmann but, a few minutes into the opener “Wien," and there is little doubt this ...

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Muriel Grossmann: Reverence

Read "Reverence" reviewed by Chris May


Since the late 1990s, the Spanish island of Ibiza has been synonymous with two things: electronic dance music and 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine aka MDMA or ecstasy. Austrian-born saxophonist Muriel Grossmann has lived on Ibiza since 2004 and her intense wall-of-sound style of astral jazz suggests she is familiar with both those pillars of Ibizan nightlife. Grossmann has not spent her time in Ibiza simply partying and chilling, however. Reverence is her eleventh album since moving to the island. She ...

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Gina Schwarz Unit featuring Jim Black: Woodclock

Read "Woodclock" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Austrian, Vienna-based double bassist Gina Schwarz found a true, like-minded musical partner that helped her realize her irreverent vision for today's jazz. American drummer Jim Black joined Schwarz's quintet for her fifth album, solidifying her reputation as a “live-cell therapy to jazz," an opinionated musician who likes to play with opposites--wise and free, gentle and wild, contemplative and energetic, organic and eccentric, blending acoustic instruments with electronics. When you think more about it, these descriptions characterize Black's great ...

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"Woodclock" - All About Jazz

Austrian, Vienna-based double bassist Gina Schwarz found a true, like- minded musical partner that helped her realize her irreverent vision for today's jazz. American drummerJim Black joined Schwarz's quintet for her fifth album, solidifying her reputation as a "live-cell therapy to jazz," an opinionated musician who likes to play with opposites—wise and free, gentle and wild, contemplative and energetic, organic and eccentric, blending acoustic instruments with electronics.

When you think more about it, these descriptions characterize Black's great groups since the beginning of the nineties. His bands refused to play by the rules or to be relegated to any stylistic definition. Such were his trio with saxophonist Ellery Eskelin and accordionistAndrea Parkins, The Tiny Bell Trio led by trumpeter Dave Douglas or his own groups with reeds player Chris Speed as Pachora, Alasnoaxis and Human Feel.

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Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Universal Code

Dreamlandrecords
2022

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Reverence

RR Gems
2020

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Quiet Earth

RR Gems/Dreamlandrecords
2020

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All The Above

audioguido records
2019

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Woodclock

Cracked Anegg
2016

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Jazzista

Unit Records
2013

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