Death of drummer Fredy Studer
According to the Swiss media, Lucerne jazz drummer Fredy Studer has died at the age of 74 following a serious illness. The exceptional Swiss musician played with greats such as Joe Henderson, John Abercrombie, Miroslav Vitous and Jack DeJohnette.
Fredy Studer wrote Swiss jazz history with the electric jazz freemusic band OM, which was founded in 1972 and is celebrating its 50th anniversary this fall with a new album. The quartet with Christy Doran, Urs Leimgruber and Bobby Burri is one of the longest-lived formations in Europe. His most important bands also include the trio Red Twist & Tuned Arrow, the hardcore chamber music trio Koch-Schütz-Studer and his own band Phall Fatale.
In 2018, Fredy Studer released his solo album "Now's the Time", on which he comprehensively summed up the subtleties and sophisticated grooves of his drumming and percussion playing. "Now's the Time" was also the motto of how Fredy Studer thought and lived. Presence in the moment, the power of immediacy, the energy of improvisation: that was his expression, his elixir of life.
