Susan Weinert (24 June 1965 – 2 March 2020) was a German guitarist and songwriter.
Career
Weinert was born in
Neunkirchen. Called one of the masters of
jazz fusion
Jazz fusion (also known as fusion and progressive jazz) is a music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and jazz improvisation, improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues. Electric guitars, ...
, she played over 3,000 performances.
On her first album in 1992,
WDR radio chose ''Mysterious Stories'' as jazz production of the year. In 2004, Weinert with her husband Martin Weinert on bass, singer Francesco Cottone, and Hardy Fischötter on drums recorded ''Running Out of Time''.
Weinert died from cancer at the age 54 on 2 March 2020.
Discography
* ''Mysterious Stories'' (veraBra, 1992)
* ''Crunch Time'' (veraBra, 1994)
* ''The Bottom Line'' (veraBra, 1996)
* ''Point of View'' (Intuition, 1999)
* ''Triple Talk Live'' (Skip, 2002)
* ''Synergy'' with Martin Weinert (Skip, 2002)
* ''Running Out of Time'' (Tough Tone, 2004)
* ''Dancing On the Water'' (Tough Tone, 2006)
* ''Tomorrow's Dream'' (Tough Tone, 2007)
* ''Thoughts & Memories'' (Tough Tone, 2010)
* ''Fjord'' with Martin Weinert (Tough Tone, 2015)
* ''Beyond the Rainbow'' (Tough Tone, 2018)
References
External links
Official siteDiscography for Susan WeinertDiscography for Susan Weinert Band
1965 births
2020 deaths
German guitarists
German women songwriters
People from Neunkirchen, Saarland
Deaths from cancer in Germany
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