Sigi Schwab, real name Siegfried,(* August 5. 1940 ) in Ludwigshafen is an outstanding German guitar

Guitar

The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

 player and teacher, having performed on more than 15000 recordings for film, television, and as an accompanist to various artists. He plays in a wide variety of styles, including baroque

Baroque guitar

The Baroque guitar is a guitar from the baroque era , an ancestor of the modern classical guitar. The term is also used for modern instruments made in the same style....

 and jazz

Jazz guitar

The term jazz guitar may refer to either a type of guitar or to the variety of guitar playing styles used in the various genres which are commonly termed "jazz"...

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Schwab played in German groupes like Et Cetera

Et Cetera

is an action, adventure, comedy manga written and illustrated by . It is licensed in English by Tokyopop. The first volume was released on August 2004; the final volume was published in April 2007.-Story:...

, Embryo

Embryo (band)

Embryo is a musical collective from Munich which has been active since 1969, although its story started in the mid-1950s in Hof where Christian Burchard and Dieter Serfas met for the first time at the age of 10...

 and with Ramesh Shotham

Ramesh Shotham

Ramesh Shotham is a percussionist and drummer.-Life:Ramesh Shotham was born in Madras, South India. He graduated with a degree in zoology from Loyola College, University of Madras...

.In 1980 Schwab played with Chris Hinze at the 5. North Sea Jazz Festival

North Sea Jazz Festival

The North Sea Jazz Festival is an annual jazz festival held each second weekend of July in the Netherlands at the Ahoy venue. It used to be in The Hague but since 2006 it has been held in Rotterdam...

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Projects

• Et Cetera with Wolfgang Dauner (p), Eberhard Weber (b), Fred Braceful, Roland Wittig (dr)
• Embryo with Christian Burchard (dr-perc), Mal Waldron (p), Dave King (b)
• Diabelli Trio with Willy Freivogel (fl),Enrique Santiago (vla)
• Guitarissimo with Peter Horton (g)
• Percussion Academia with Freddie Santiago and Guillermo Marchena (dr- perc)
• Percussion Project with Ramesh Shotham and Andreas Keller (dr- perc)
• Mandala duo with Ramesh Shotham

Discography

• The Fabulous Guitar (1967)
• Et Cetera (1970)
• Father,Son and Holy Ghosts (1972)
• Continental Expierence with George Shearing (1975)
• Bali-Agung (1975) with Eberhard Schoener
  Eberhard Schoener
  Eberhard Schoener is a German composer, conductor, arranger, and keyboard player."My message is the music. The goal of my life is to create an original form of contemporary music in which the opera, jazz, ethnical and electronic music melt together...
  
  
• Meditations (1979)
• Live at the Northsea Jazz Festival (1980) with Chris Hinze
• Wiener Serenade with Diabelli Trio (1981)
• Silversand (1985)
• Meditations 2 (1986)
• Mandala (1995)
• Session 2000 (2000)
• On Stage (2009)