Gerry Joe Weise, Australian Jazz Guitarist
Gerry Joe Weise is No.4 on the FAMOUS AUSTRALIAN JAZZ GUITARISTS List 2023, after Tommy Emmanuel and Frank Gambale https://m.famousfix.com/list/australian-jazz-guitarists
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2000 to present Jazz, Gerry Joe Weise Band, Australia.
2013, Gerry Joe Weise, Australian Jazz guitarist. Rockingham Signature archtop guitar. Hookrock Festival in Belgium.
Gerry Joe Weise, is an Australian musician, Contemporary composer, and Land artist. Who is a jazz blues guitarist, and a contemporary composer for orchestral music. That has performed and released music albums, and exhibited artworks in Australia, Europe and the United States. As a pianist, violinist, and percussionist, Weise composes original published music scores for the Australian 21st Century Classical music genre. Record companies: Blues Breaking Records USA, Contemporary Arc Australia, and Musea France.
1981 postcard of Gerry Joe Weise with his vintage 1967 Gibson ES-340 guitar.
Gerry Joe Weise was born in Sydney, Australia in 1959. As a teenager, Gerry Joe Weise's first initiation into jazz in Sydney, was when he joined the jazz fusion quintet Corroboree in 1978. Film composer Cezary Skubiszewski played keyboards, and Manfred Mann Chapter Three's Craig Collinge was the drummer. When Weise left Australia to broaden his musical horizons in 1980, he chose Frankfurt, Germany, for the music scene. In that city and same year, Weise became one of the members of the Jazzkeller's house band. He backed a variety of German jazz musicians and American blues artists, Albert Collins, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, and Eric Clapton. Weise made the move to Munich in 1982, and joined the German jazz fusion quintet with horn section, Tour de Force. They were known for their compositions with complex time signatures (e.g. 13/8). The quintet played famous venues in Bavaria, such as the Jazz club Unterfahrt, the Vielharmonie and the Wintergarten. Towards the end of 1984, Weise left Germany to establish himself in France. Primarly for concert performances, these jazz formations had no official album released, although each group had demo recordings for bookings or promotional use. These jazz ensembles were important to a young Weise, honing his musical skills on the guitar, whereby he played for an approximate two to three year period with each. During the 1980s Weise's main musical instrument was a vintage 1967 Gibson ES-340 guitar, walnut color with a rosewood fretboard, and original pickups.
2014, Gerry Joe Weise playing organ, at the Chess Records Studios, in Chicago, USA.
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1970's Jazz, Corroboree, Australia.
1978, Gerry Joe Weise, Corroboree, Sydney, Australia.
Corroboree : Naomi Leago vocals, Cezary Skubiszewski keyboards, Gerry Joe Weise guitar, Mike Dickinson bass / Phil Parli bass, Craig Collinge drums. (2nd photo: Gerry Joe Weise and his Gibson L6S guitar).
1980's Jazz, Tour de Force, Germany.
1982, Gerry Joe Weise, Tour de Force, Munich, Germany.
Tour de Force : Wolfgang Mesch alto and soprano saxophones, Gerry Joe Weise guitar, Michael Kurz flute and bass clarinet, Harald Ferner bass, Herbert Nauderer drums.
1990's Jazz, Zig Zag, France.
1991, Gerry Joe Weise, Zig Zag, Reims, France.
Zig Zag : Bernard Citti keyboards, Gerry Joe Weise guitar, Bruno Giralte bass, Bob Adnet drums.
2008, Gerry Joe Weise, Santa Maria Festival, Azores Isles.
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2014, Gerry Joe Weise guitar, "All Blues" (Miles Davis), Gardenstock Festival, Dixon IL, USA.
Gerry Joe Weise guitar (Fender Stratocaster Custom Shop), Juma Sultan (ex. Jimi Hendrix) percussion, Jay Pauley keyboards, Bill Encke bass, Joe Pasteris drums.
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1994, Gerry Joe Weise guitar, "Stratus" (Billy Cobham), Cadran, Paris, France.
Gerry Joe Weise guitar (vintage 1963 Fender Stratocaster), Philippe Dandrimont bass, Patrick Machenaud drums.
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2016, Gerry Joe Weise guitar, "Surfing Coffs Harbour" (G.J.Weise), Australia.
Gerry Joe Weise guitar (vintage 1960 Airline Town and Country), Tracy Hart flute, Karen Bloome keyboards, Roxanne Davies keyboards, Jamie Jones double bass, Brad Elliot drums, T.J. Merton percussion.
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2022, Gerry Joe Weise acoustic piano, "Ta Ka Di Mi Di Dance" (G.J.Weise).
Gerry Joe Weise piano (Steinway), Tracy Hart tenor saxophone 1, Roxanne Davies tenor saxophone 2, T.J. Merton trumpet 1, Karen Bloome trumpet 2, Al Brancoft alto trombone, Craig Fortworth trombone, Jon Tumble tuba, Jamie Jones fretless bass, Brad Elliot drums and percussion.
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2021, Gerry Joe Weise acoustic piano, "The Sun Shines upon this Girl" (G.J.Weise).
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2020, Karen Bloome piano 1, Gerry Joe Weise piano 2, "Love in Life - Duet for 2 Pianos" (G.J.Weise).
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2015, Gerry Joe Weise guitar, "Blues for Gandhi" (G.J.Weise), Tribute to Shakti.
Gerry Joe Weise guitars (Seagull S6 acoustic and vintage 1965 Danelectro Silvertone electric), Mazumdar (ex. Ravi Shankar) tabla.
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2022, Gerry Joe Weise acoustic piano, "And the Ocean Danced" (G.J.Weise).
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