Phishbacher is back for more! After successfully presenting his Czech trio featuring Lukáš Kytnar on bass and Otto Hejnic on drums at this years Trutnov and Turnov Jazz Festivals in Czech Republic, pianist/keyboardist Walter Fischbacher brings his flavorful blend of groove, jazz and the Beatles to the European stage again. Drawing on his fabulously diverse repertoire of original compositions (featured on his two releases Chillin' and Infinity Ltd.) Walter Fischbacher and his band lay down the law of the acoustic piano trio by combining dazzling virtuosity with knuckle grinding back-beat and exhilarating afro-cuban rhythm. If you didn't catch this band the first time around, you better go check 'em out now!
Below you'll find everything you need to know about the project, as well as press releases, pictures, posters etc
click here for bio in czech
www.walterfischbacher.com Versatile pianist and keyboardist Walter Fischbacher can best be described as the groove master of keys. Having mastered both pianistic technique and the art of the backbeat he has set out to conquer the world with his trio. A native Austrian, he relocated to New York after intense studies of classical and jazz piano in Vienna. He refined his art at the renown Mannes College and the New School Jazz Department. In addition to some arduous and exhilarating years as a solo pianist to the left of the New York Empire Diner's toilet, Walter worked as a sideman with George Garzone, Tim Levebvre, Joel Rosenblatt, Ric Fierabracci, Chico Freeman, Billy Harper, Charles Tolliver, Frank Foster, Vienna Art Orchestra, Ingrid Jensen, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Gary Dial, Jamie Haddad, Peter Herbert, Corin Curschellas, Elisabeth Lohninger etc. He also expanded his horizon and paid his bills with audio-engineering and producing. His latest outfit "Phishbacher" grew out of a weekly gig and into one of the hottest piano trios around.
Lukáš Kytnar -
bass
Was born in Hostinne is east Bohemia where at the age of 7 he started playing acoustic guitar.
He started bass at 15 and founded a jazz band called Charlie Band in Trutnov and also played in several folk and rock bands. Three years later he moved to Prague and went to the Jaroslava Jezka Jazz Conservatory and started to play with great musicians and bands such as Free Steps, Filip Gondolan Band, Leona Prokopcoba Group, Anima and Adam Tvrdy Band.
After graduating from the conservatory, he went with Filip Gondolan to the Carribean and the Bahamas to play on a Carnival Cruise Line ship where he later did subbing in the big band for another 3 month. The he lived in Meontreal for one year during which he played with local musicians and attended the 2001 Montreal Jazz Festival.
He got back to Prague in spring of 2002 and started playing with Leona Prokopcova Band, O. Skrancova band a Latin Wave, and is frequentlty invited to sub in many other bands.
Born 1975, Lives in Prague, Czech Republic Graduated from the Prague Conservatory of Music in 1996 Attended The Berklee School of Music in 1997 He teaches at the "International School of Music and Fine Arts Prague" (ISMFA). His latest collaborations include: Otto Hejnic Trio, Trialog, T-JVQ Veve Diamond & Voctory, Thomas "Sky" Slancky Band, Adam Tvrdý and great NYC bassplayer Jason Fraticelli. Performances at concerts and festivals in Paris, Berlin, Brussels, Stockholm, Budapest, Vienna
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press release: With “Chillin” phishbacher have set out to re-invent the sound of the piano trio. Drawing from a plethora of influential artists such as Herbie Hancock, EST and Michel Camilo, they have merged the ethereal with groove, brain with guts and spirit with virtuosity. Stylistically diverse and yet unified by the distinctive sound of the trio, “Chillin” takes the listener on a journey of frivolously laid-back groovin’ (the opener “Bloomish”), ephemeral balladin’ (“EZ Breezie”), virtuoso afro-cuban partyin’ (“Pootish”) and the occasional acoustic chillin’ (“Return to Nowhere”). These cats are tight, swinging and digging in like there is no tomorrow.. On the upcoming tour ins spring 2007featuring:Walter Fischbacher on piano, Lukáš Kytnar on bass and Otto Hejnic on drums. |
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