Christoph Victor Kaiser - Bass
SouthAfrican Webmagazine Bassplayers 08/06 Russian Webmagazine Bassbel 05/06 Global Bass 02/02 Bass Professor 04/02 Unterricht:
1975-1980 Klassischer Unterricht am Klavier
1980-1992 Klassischer Unterricht am Violoncello
seit 1987 E-Bass
Diplom of the Professional Program Future Music School / Aschaffenburg - BRD 1994, Diplom Summercourse Berklee College of Music (Boston) in Perugia / Umbrien 1995, Scholarship of Berklee College of Music / Boston - USA Studies at Berklee 1998 - 1999
Lehrer:
Kai Eckhardt Karpeh de Camargo
(John McLaughlin, Aziza Mustafa Zadeh, Tom Coster ...)
Bruce Gertz
(Mike Stern, Gil Evans, Dave Brubeck, Gary Burton, Dozent at Berklee College of Music / Boston )
Meisterkurse:
Jonas Hellborg, Steve Bailey, Ray Brown, Jim Hall, Milt Jackson, Josef Zawinul, Gary Burton, Johnny Griffin, John McLaughlin and others.
Bands:
1993-1994 Landesjugendjazzorchester Hessen
1989-1997 & seit 2005 FAT CAT
(Jazz-Funk Quintett, diverse musicawards, Festivals etc.) Support Act für Steps Ahead
Manfred Kinle - trumpet
Stefan Ivan Schäfer - guitar
Hans Kaulbach - keyboard
Klaus Berger - drums
Christoph Victor Kaiser - bass
seit 1995 Jazz Pistols
Stefan Ivan Schäfer - guitar
Thomas Lui Ludwig - drums
Christoph Victor Kaiser - bass
1999-2003 Pax Wallace Quartett
Pax Wallace - piano
Knut Rössler - saxophone
Christian Scheuber - drums
Christoph Victor Kaiser - bass
seit 2002 Uwe Ochsenknecht Band
Uwe Ochsenknecht - vocal
Hans Kaulbach- keyboards
Florian Walther - guitar&vocal
Stefan Ivan Schäfer - guitar
Thomas Lui Ludwig - drums
Christoph Victor Kaiser - bass
seit 2003 Jazzmachine
Stefan Zaradic - keyboards
Thorsten Skringer - saxophones
Anna Patan - vocal
Abi von Reininghaus - guitar
Thomas Lui Ludwig - drums
Christoph Victor Kaiser - bass
2003-2004 beFunk
Dominik Steegmüller - vocal
Simon Nicholls -keyboards&vocal
Alberto Menendez- saxophone
Stefan Ivan Schäfer - guitar
Thomas Lui Ludwig - drums
Christoph Victor Kaiser - bass
2005-2007 Linos
Dominik Steegmüller - vocal
Stefan Ivan Schäfer - guitar
Tilman Bruno - percussion
Christoph Victor Kaiser - bass
Tourneen:
Zusammen mit den Jazz Pistols Tourneen durch Süd-, Ost- und Westafrika, den Balkanstaaten, Rumänien, Litauen, Griechenland, Ungarn, Österreich, Belgien, Tschechische Republik.
Lehrer / Dozententätigkeit:
Seit 2000 Basslehrer an städtischen Musikschulen
Leitung der Big Band des Goethe Gymnasiums Bensheim
Dozent beim Musik/Technik Summercamp im Schwarzwald /Schluchsee
Dozent in der Kulturfabrik Wolfsburg
Gastdozent an der Berufsmusikschule in Dinkelsbühl
Gastdozent an der Kenyatta University Kenia / Nairobi
Gastdozent an der University of Technology in Südafrika / Pretoria
Gastdozent beim Dresdener Drum Festival
Gastdozent Popularmusikschule Ostwestfalen e.V. in Bielefeld
Gastdozent an der Popakademie Mannheim
Div. Bandworkshops
Concerts with:
Jule Neigel Band, Merck Philharmonic Big Band, Xavier Naidoo, Achim Degen (Six was Nine), Torsten de Winkel, Henni Nachtsheim (Badesalz), Christopher Dell, Festival and TV-appearance with the danish group "Alline;s Corner" in Danmark.
Awards:
Several musicawards of his hometown and country for classical, pop/rock and jazz performance, "Best German-Jazz-Newcomerband 1997" (Jazz Thing) with the Jazz Pistols, 4. place at the "Blue Note Jazz Search 1997" out of over 400 entries with the Jazz Pistols.
Studio:
Recording- and mixing engineer for the Jazz Pistols "Special Treatment" and "Superstring" CD, "Live" CD & DVD, Pax Wallace Quartett "Dream Logic" CD and different other productions.
Endorsements:
Fodera Basses, Ritter Basses, DR-strings, AccuGroove cabinets, TerratecProducer Axon 100 MKII, Vovox Cables.
Christoph can be reached via e-mail: Christoph@jazz-pistols.de