What a sublime saxophone-Balladeur plays here! That said, who admired the tenor saxophone-art Andy Scherrers in concerts with the famous Vienna Art Orchestra (VAO), the Scherrer by 1991, over many years, participated. Take for an example of the Youtube recording of “Art with Heart”, a seven minute long sequence of a performance at the North Sea jazz festival 2002: VAO-chief Mathias Rüegg was the Basel-based tenor saxophonist Andy Scherrer, preferably, as the ballads-artist in long Features – “Art with Heart” shows nicely why. The sublime game Scherrers brings the ballad to the lights. A noble, cultured, graceful sound. Wonderful Scherrer is about the color of carpets, the rest of the wind range, can also swell vital, without going to a youngster-like force dairy farm.
He brought the ballad to Shine: Andy Scherrer with the Vienna Art Orchestra. Video: Youtube
Since the mid-1970s Scherrer was considered one of the best European Jazz tenorist, he fit so perfectly into the VAO, in which the European Crème de la Crème of the Jazz played. Scherrer was never one who sought the limelight. Modest in manner, he was introverted as a person.
The 1946-born musician, who grew up in Basel, had ion a consequence of right time of life most of his appearances as a Sideman and not as a leader of its own format. Scherrer played often with George Gruntz; Gruntz won the Basler colleagues from time to time in his Concert Jazz Band, in the otherwise predominantly American Stars played. In the seventies, Scherrer also made in the case of Magog, the Zurich-based pianist Klaus König attention – with music between hard BOP, Free jazz and rock. With over fifty years of published Scherrer, this appeared to hold at the end of the Grand Seigneur of the tenor saxophone, his first Album as a Leader: “Second Step” in 2000 on the Label TCB of Basel’s youth friend, Peter Schmidlin.
innocent people is the most teacher
Andy Scherrer had acquired the Jazz basically self-taught. Although he went with the 27 to the former Conservatory in Basel and studied at the classical saxophone teacher Ivan Roth – but his actual school, the Jazz records, which was brought to him by friends such as Drummer Peter Schmidlin or Bassist Isla Eckinger were more like it. To his own saxophone language, Scherrer found, according to their own words, especially in the confrontation with Wayne Shorter or Joe Henderson. The latter he dedicated later a private Album, recorded with young Swiss jazz musicians such as Jean-Paul Brodbeck or Dominic Egli (“Serenity: A Tribute to Joe Henderson”, 2004).
And Scherrer also picked up Eleven. In his function as a pedagogue, who was always quite innocent people, mostly in and, basically, not so fond of teaching, he will remain as a reminder of how, as a unique saxophone soloist. From 1975 to 2011, Andy Scherrer saxophone-lecturer in Bern. Almost all of the who have today a name among the Swiss tenor saxophonist, from the Basler Domenic Landolf about the Bernese Donat fish to Zurich Jochen Baldes, went through the school of Andy Scherrer. “The saxophone teacher of the Nation” they called him.
In the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, Andy Scherrer has died after a long illness at the age of 73 years.
Created: 28.11.2019, 09:52 PM
