Michael Sagmeister (born 27 July 1959 in

Frankfurt Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...

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) is a German

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...

guitarist. Sagmeister gained first prominence when he performed in 1975 at the ''Frankfurt Jazz Festival''. The following year he founded the ''Michael Sagmeister Trio'' with Udo Kistner (playing bass) and Michael Kuettner on drums which became his most successful ensemble. In the 1980s he toured as a supporting act with the

United Jazz and Rock Ensemble The United Jazz + Rock Ensemble (abbr. "United" or "UJRE") developed from a group of jazz musicians that was formed for a 1974 to 1975 television show of Süddeutscher Rundfunk (South German Broadcasting). Almost all future members of "United" ...

by which he became well known in the jazz scene. From 1993 to 1997 Sagmeister was a lecturer at

Berklee College of Music Berklee College of Music is a private music college in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Known for the study of jazz and modern American music, it also offers college-level cours ...

in Boston. In 1999 he became a tenured professor at the

Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts The Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts (german: Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main, italic=no, link=no, HfMDK) is a state Hochschule for music, theatre and dance in Frankfurt and is the only one of its k ...

. Sagmeister published three primers about Jazz guitar.

Discography

* ''The Silent Spectacle'' with

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, Jochen Schmidt, Michael Kuettner (Mood, 1982) * ''Waiting for Better Days'' (Mood, 1983) * ''Two Is a Crowd'' with Thomas Heidepriem (Mood, 1984) * ''So Near So Far'' with Christoph Spendel (L+R 1987) * ''Looking Out of My Window'' (Mood, 1987) * ''A Certain Gift: Live'' (MGI, 1990) * ''Still with Me'' (MGI, 1992) * ''Here and Now'' (Acoustic Music, 1998) * ''Binary'' with Christoph Spendel (Acoustic Music, 1999) * ''Dedicato: Canzoni e Jazz'' with Camillo D'Ancona (Acoustic Music, 2000) * ''Conversation'' with

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(Acoustic Music, 2000) * ''Dualism'' with

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(Timba, 2002) * ''Repose'' (Acoustic Music, 2002) * ''The Way We Feel About It'' with Britta Medeiros (Acoustic Music, 2003) * ''When the Moment Sings'' with Britta Medeiros (Acoustic Music, 2005) * ''Soul Ticket'' (Acoustic Music, 2006) * ''True to the Moment'' (Jawo, 2010) * ''Nell Anima'' with Antonella D'Orio (Jawo, 2012) * ''Home'' (Acoustic Music, 2015) * ''Power of Resistance'' (Acoustic Music, 2019) * ''The Antonella Letters'' (Acoustic Music, 2020) * ''Story Board'' (Acoustic Music, 2021)

References

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