Susan Weinert: A Video Tribute to The Memory of Susan Weinert

Susan Weinert passed away in March, 2020 after a long battle with cancer. She will be missed greatly. Thank you Susan for all the fine fusion guitar music over the years. This video of her music is my tribute to the very finest female jazz fusion guitarist that ever graced the stage and to have released music over the years. I enjoyed supporting her superb music over the years and reading her emails to me. Her husband, Martin, graciously agreed to my creating this video tribute.

THIS TRIBUTE VIDEO FEATURES:
1 THREE CHOICES
2 DON'T TRY THAT AGAIN, M.F.
3 MASTER OF THE MIDIVERSE
4 DAY
5 DARKNESS
6 Die Kraniche (The curious, low volume level, background sounds in this lovely song is intentional -- they are the sounds of cranes -- added in -- as in English , the song title is "The Cranes".)

Her 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)
Here's a review I did of her Crunch Time release:
For rockin' jazz fusion and passionate jazz guitar, Germany's Susan Weinert, has my vote as the genre's reigning queen -- Jane Getter being hot on her heels. Weinert is explosive, versatile, power-punching, inventive, brazen yet warmly soulful in a multitude of sensuous chops and furious licks. Be it phrasings, timing sense, instrument voicings, technical soundness, or overall song structure -- Weinert is top notch. No argument with this statement is even remotely possible.
Weinert on guitar and guitar synth is joined by Martin Weinert on killer bass. He plays a full, melodic, funked groove of tight bounch and supreme heaviness. Hardy Fischotter slays the drums in precise devastation. Oliver Heuss guests on great keys.
From the opening cut, "Don't try that again, M.F." to "Maybe" the ride of ten sonic treats never fails to satisfy. This is a 12+ on a 1-10 scale of "Lame to Awesome". Yow!
Crunch Time by the Susan Weinert Band pulls out all the stops! Weinert wails and lets "edge" be edge. She makes you sit up and take notice. Her riffs are mean and slick and will make a lot of jazz fusion fans say, "Whoa baby, this lady can flat out jam!" Fans of Tribal Tech and Hendersonic pyrotechnics will love this.
This may be a 1994 release but hey -- great music is ageless, so seek this one out today! Highest recommendations! ~ John W. Patterson

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A VIDEO TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF SUSAN WEINERT FINEST FEMALE FUSION GUITARIST EVER jazz rock fusion

Susan Weinert: Jazz guitarist dead at the age of 54

On March 2nd, jazz guitarist Susan Weinert died at the age of 54. Her first album Mysterious Stories' was released in 1992. Her fifteenth and last album 'The Tree in Front of My Window' was released just a few weeks ago.

Susan Weinert died on March 2, 2020, due to severe illness. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Weinert


Susan Weinert: Jazz guitarist dead at the age of 54

Susan Weinert: Tanz der Schmetterlinge - fusion star on acoustic guitar

Susan Weinert Global Players Quartet performing "Tanz der Schmetterlinge" at Hangar 21 in Detmold - Germany in oct 2014
Susan Weinert git, Martin Weinert bass, Andrzej Olejniczak sax, Florian Schneider drums

Tanz der Schmetterlinge

Susan Weinert: band playing live with uber fusion drummer Sebastiaan Cornelisen

http://www.susanweinert.com/

prod: www.sebastiaancornelissen.com

susan weinert band live


drumsolo at the end of the song "Change".
Live version. Comes from Susan's album "running out of time"
Features Fransesco Cottone on vocals.

Susan Weinert Sebastiaan Cornelisen live

Susan Weinert: Kumanovo Jazz Festival in aug 2004

Susan Weinert guitar- Hardy Fischötter drums- Martin Weinert bass live at Kumanovo Jazz Festival in aug 2004

Kobayashi Syndrome by Susan Weinert


Hopeless Case by Susan Weinert

Susan Weinert: live at MAI - Top Fusion ALERT

Susan Weinert live at MAI !!!!

Damjan Pejcinoski,Susan Weinert: Cantaloupe Island

Not sure why... but I did miss this one.

Live from the Kumanovo Jazz Festival together with Susan Weinert trio.We are jammin' on the jazz standard by Herbie Hancock -"Cantaloupe Island".The clip is short sorry about that I hope I will get HD videos from the concert soon! :)

Damjan Pejcinoski Jammin' on "Cantaloupe Island" with Susan Weinert trio


Damjan Pejcinoski jammin' on "All blues" with Susan Weinert trio

Susan Weinert: acoustic midi guitar

Now—it's already a bit unusual to play jazz on a nylon string guitar, but Weinert's acoustic setup gets even more interesting. Used to using synth sounds with her electric guitar, she wanted to have that option with the nylon string. It would give her a larger palette of tones to draw from. She chose the RMC Acoustic Gold system which is a 13-pin hexaphonic (separate output for each string) piezo pickup, with a Roland VG-8 Module for her synth sounds. Through the use of a Rocktron MIDI Mate foot controller and volume pedals, she can create any blend of synth and acoustic sounds that she wants. I've had the honor of hearing in her acoustic duo featuring her husband, Martin Weinert on upright bass. She may use 100% synth sounds for certain melodic phrases, but she never over-uses the synth effect. A lot of times she'll bring in a really warm, string-like pad along with the nylon string to add elements of space and texture. I've also been lucky enough to have her play with me on my CD, UnCovered. It's a collection of cover tunes, and we picked Sting's “Fragile” to really feature Weinert's nylon sound—but what she added with the synth sounds truly took the song to a new place. No matter what the blend is, Weinert is always true to the music.

full interview

Alex Machacek,Richard Hallebeek: new cd of awesome fusion

News:
12-05-2009:

Sebastiaan Cornelissen (Drums); Alex Machacek (Guitar); Susan Weinert (Guitar); Mike Outram(Guitar); Richard Hallebeek (Guitar); Leonardo Amuedo (Guitar); Gary Husband (keys); Scott Kinsey (Keys); Steve Hunt (Keys); Hadrien Feraud (Bass); Frans Vollink (Bass); Jimmy Earl (Bass); Tom Kennedy (Bass); Johnny Copland (Bass); Gary Willis (Bass Loops); Ruud Cornelissen (bowed acoustic bass); Gerard Presencer (flugel horn)

samples

Throughout the years I've come to know Sebastiaan and his music quite well and it always is completely world class, first rate and most impressive! On this CD he almost outdoes himself with great self-penned compositions and arrangements and fantastic playing from literally everyone. I've been a big fan of Gerard Presencer's since I heard him on a Joe Locke CD and it's great to hear him in this setting...these are great musicans who deserve to be known the world over! - Randy Brecker

Sebastiaan writes curious and intelligent music of depth and passion. His intricate harmonic approach is very interesting to me also. For these reasons and others, it's been a genuine pleasure to take part a little bit in these recordings and I wish Sebastiaan all the success he deserves with this new release. -Gary Husband

what else can I say other than it's amazing! It goes without saying that the playing would be incredible considering yourself and the list of guest contributors but the writing is absolutely breathtaking so congratulations! - -Brett Garsed.

Sebastiaan Cornelissen is one of the most musical drummers/composers I have encountered in recent years. I was delighted to contribute my part to his upcoming album “Uturn”. - Alexander Machacek

Since first coming on the scene in the early 2000s, composer and drummer Sebastiaan Cornelissen has emerged as one of the most distinctive new voices on the European fusion scene. Whether acting as a leader, sideman, or group member, Cornelissen’s playing combines a sharp sense of empathy and staggering technique with impressive improvisational grace and intensity. His compositions are subtle and melodically memorable, while presenting fertile challenges for improvisation. Uturn, available Abstract Logix Music, is the second solo album from Cornelissen, who currently divides his time between the UK and his native Holland.

Born of transition and experimentation over the past four years, Uturn is a vital, organic statement marked by the multifaceted gifts and restless creative spirit of its maker, Sebastiaan Cornelissen. While best known as a peerless drummer, whose supple, almost melodic playing both drives and colors the ensemble he is performing with, Cornelissen is also featured on Uturn as a composer, producer, guitarist, and engineer. He brings to each role a dynamic, inventive sensibility, and sense of improvisation that imbues not only his playing, but his approach to structure, texture, and composition.

The process that resulted in the project began in 2003, when Cornelissen moved to Nottingham, England to teach. “That was quite a gamble,” he recalls, “since I didn’t have the luxuries that I did at home – like a studio and drums, or someplace where I could make loads of noise all day and night. I searched for ways to be able to make music somehow, and ended up buying a very simple laptop. I started to create a bunch of fragmental tunes, where instead of drums I would make loops and beats using samples of me playing brushes on whatever I found in my garage. Those miniature compositions on the laptop were the beginning of it all.”

Living to the UK also forced Cornelissen, already well-known in his home country, to establish himself in an entirely new scene. “I had to start from scratch again,” he reflects. “Since nobody knew me, I didn’t have a stamp on me as being a particular kind of drummer. So I got a lot more experience in loads of different musical situations.” The combination of a wider range of musical experiences with his growing stash of laptop-composed songs laid the foundation for Uturn, which he began working on in earnest in 2005. “By 2005 I had moved back home,” he recalls, “but teaching and performing commitments meant that I had to travel back and forth, sometimes twice a week, between England and Holland. I always had my laptop around, and whenever possible I'd put on one of the tunes and have friends play solos over it.”

The result of four years of recording, mixing, re-recording, and editing, was a kaleidoscopic album that melded a jazz-derived fluidity with the crackling energy of rock and deep rhythmic grooves that owed equally to funk and swing. A variety of recording approaches were utilized, along with a rotating cast of musicians, including Gerard Presencer on trumpet and flugelhorn; keyboardists Gary Husband, Scott Kinsey, and Steve Hunt; guitarists Susan Weinert, Leonardo Amuedo, Richard Hallebeek, Alex Machacek, and Mike Outram; and bassists Frans Vollink, Johnny Copland, Jimmy Earl, Gary Willis, and Tom Kennedy. In addition to drums, percussion, loops, and programming, Cornelissen contributed keyboards and guitar while mixing and engineering the entire album.

Cornelissen’s diverse musicality is rooted in his upbringing in a creative, supportive family. His grandfather was a talented painter and sculptor, and his father is a well regarded double-bass player who performed for several decades with the Radio Symphony Orchestra and taught at the Conservatory of Amsterdam. Very soon after Sebastiaan showed an interest in percussion, his father traded one of his basses for a set of drums, and the young musician quickly excelled in this warm, encouraging atmosphere. He was performing by the age of ten, and studied at the Conservatory of Amsterdam from 1997 until 2001. There he came into contact with a like-minded group of musicians inspired by the possibility of fusing jazz-like improvisational freedom with an increasingly sophisticated compositional and technical approach. With pianist Rob Van Bavel he formed the group Isotope, who released two albums that helped to establish Cornelissen as one of the country’s finest and most innovative young drummers.

Cornelissen’s solo debut, Aggressive Attack, was released in 2002. Largely acoustic in conception, Aggressive Attack featured Cornelissen as composer and bandleader in a more jazz-oriented context. In 2005 Cornelissen was featured on a pair of releases showcasing two sides of his increasingly broadening vision. Timeline was a riveting fusion date with Tribal Tech bassist Gary Willis and Lale Larson on piano, rich with startling playing, wit, and a conversational sense of interplay. A duo project with bassist Frans Vollink, One Spirit was a more expansive outing that included contributions from Van Bavel and Larson, along with Richard Hallebeek (guitar), Susan Weinert (guitar and guitar synth), Martin Verdonk (percussion), Randy Brecker (trumpet), and Gerard Presencer (trumpet).

Uturn features many of those collaborators, in very different settings. “I wanted something more produced,” Cornelissen explains, “as opposed to the much more live recordings I did before. The concept was to use my studio’s full potential. Layering sounds and drums. On the track ‘4 Hands,’ for instance, I play brushes and sticks in the same bar. Overlapping grooves and using samples are heard a lot, too, and not just in the drum parts.”

“Some of the tracks were overdubbed piece-by-piece from scratch,” he continues, “and others were cut almost completely live. I always added or altered something, though. ‘Fruits & Fibre,’ which is the name of a cheap cereal I was eating, is based on a little loop of me playing a copper oilcan and a cereal bowl with my fork and spoon. Throughout Uturn I made my own sounds from samples I recorded – sometimes with a guitar, sometimes bells or a glass or whatever was around. So, in the basics, it really gives something personal to the general sound of the tunes.”

The only outside composition is “England Green,” written by legendary British keyboardist Gary Husband, who is heard on three of Uturn’s fourteen tracks. “Gary is wonderful as a musician and person,” Cornelissen says. “He helped me out a lot with this album. I have listened to his music ever since I was 6 or so, so you can imagine how it feels to have him in the band. I have to pretend that I know how to play drums!” As important an influence as Husband was on the project, the biggest contributor might have also been the smallest. “Having my son, Caspar Tristan, had a major impact. His arrival made me think differently about how I use my time and my energy.”

Looking back on the competed project, on all the layers of composition, improvisation, samples, live performances, edits, and mixes, Cornelissen is now curious to take an entirely different approach. “Almost every tune brings up a memory now, or a feeling,” he concludes. “But by the time one tune is finished the one I did before it already sounds old to me. Maybe after this I will make a live album of this music and see how different it would turn out!”

Track Listings
Download/Stream Sampler
1. Can Do (LISTEN TO AUDIO)
2. Fruits and Fibre (LISTEN TO AUDIO)
3. UTurn (LISTEN TO AUDIO)
4. Caspar (LISTEN TO AUDIO)
5. 4 Hands (LISTEN TO AUDIO)
6. Stello (LISTEN TO AUDIO)
7. England Green (LISTEN TO AUDIO)
8. All so Familiar (LISTEN TO AUDIO)
9. Stevenage (LISTEN TO AUDIO)
10. Up There (LISTEN TO AUDIO)
11. Bread Maker (LISTEN TO AUDIO)
12. Squash (LISTEN TO AUDIO)
13. Snox (LISTEN TO AUDIO)
14. Last One

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News: musicmesse highlights

News:
22-03-2009:
I shall be around Musikmesse 2009 if all goes according to plan. I fly in Friday and hope to catch Friday and Saturday shows with video recorder and camera in hand. If you see me please say hello. This is me with Gustavo Guerra at the LIMS 2008 show.



Current list of shows include the following artists:

Michael Amott (Carcass/Arch Enemy) rganizer: M & T (Dean Guitars)
Exhibitor-Events (4.2 D20), Saturday, April 4 2009, 14:00
Exhibitor-Events (4.2 D20), Friday, April 3 2009, 13:00
Exhibitor-Events (4.0 C35), Saturday, April 4 2009, 15:00

Paul Reed Smith, Al di Meola, Bernie Marsden
Exhibitor-Events (3.0 B25), Friday, April 3 2009, 15:00
Exhibitor-Events (3.0 B25), Saturday, April 4 2009, 16:00

Michael Angelo Batio
Exhibitor-Events (4.2 D20), Thursday, April 2 2009, 13:00
Exhibitor-Events (4.2 D20), Friday, April 3 2009, 15:00
Exhibitor-Events (4.2 D20), Saturday, April 4 2009, 11:30
Agora Stage (Festival Tent), Saturday, April 4 2009, 15:00

Alex Beyrodt
Exhibitor-Events (4.2 E37), Thursday, April 2 2009, 15:00
Exhibitor-Events (4.2 E37), Saturday, April 4 2009, 15:00

Finest Guitar Solos with Andrea Cesone
Exhibitor-Events (4.2 C41), Wednesday, April 1 2009, 12:00
Exhibitor-Events (4.2 C41), Wednesday, April 1 2009, 15:00
Exhibitor-Events (4.2 C41), Wednesday, April 1 2009, 17:00
Exhibitor-Events (4.2 C41), Thursday, April 2 2009, 12:00
Exhibitor-Events (4.2 C41), Thursday, April 2 2009, 15:00
Exhibitor-Events (4.2 C41), Thursday, April 2 2009, 17:00
Exhibitor-Events (4.2 C41), Friday, April 3 2009, 12:00
Exhibitor-Events (4.2 C41), Friday, April 3 2009, 15:00
Exhibitor-Events (4.2 C41), Friday, April 3 2009, 17:00
Exhibitor-Events (4.2 C41), Saturday, April 4 2009, 10:00
Exhibitor-Events (4.2 C41), Saturday, April 4 2009, 12:00
Exhibitor-Events (4.2 C41), Saturday, April 4 2009, 14:00

Mattias 'IA' Eklundh
Agora Stage (Festival Tent), Thursday, April 2 2009, 10:00

Vicki Genfan/Susan Weinert/Martin Weinert
Acoustic Stage (Hall 3. Via, Room Facette), Friday, April 3 2009, 14:30
Susan Weinert Synergy
Acoustic Stage (Hall 3. Via, Room Facette), Thursday, April 2 2009, 15:00

Paul Gilbert
Exhibitor-Events (3.0 B25), Thursday, April 2 2009, 12:30
Exhibitor-Events (3.0 B25), Thursday, April 2 2009, 13:30
Exhibitor-Events (3.0 B25), Friday, April 3 2009, 15:00
Exhibitor-Events (3.0 B25), Saturday, April 4 2009, 11:00
Agora Stage (Festival Tent), Saturday, April 4 2009, 14:00
Exhibitor-Events (3.0 B25), Saturday, April 4 2009, 14:00

Gus G. (Firewind)
Exhibitor-Events (4.0 C45), Saturday, April 4 2009, 11:30


SCHECTER GUITARS Finest Guitar Shredding with Jeff Loomis
Exhibitor-Events (4.2 E15), Friday, April 3 2009, 13:00
Exhibitor-Events (4.2 E15), Friday, April 3 2009, 16:00
Exhibitor-Events (4.2 E15), Saturday, April 4 2009, 13:00
Exhibitor-Events (4.2 E15), Saturday, April 4 2009, 15:00

Andrea Quartarone
Agora Stage (Festival Tent), Saturday, April 4 2009, 10:30

Rage - Victor Smolski
Agora Stage (Festival Tent), Friday, April 3 2009, 18:15
Agora Stage (Festival Tent), Friday, April 3 2009, 19:15
Agora Stage (Festival Tent), Saturday, April 4 2009, 16:00

Ricky Garcia (LaFee)
Agora Stage (Festival Tent), Wednesday, April 1 2009, 14:00
Agora Stage (Festival Tent), Friday, April 3 2009, 20:45

Lee Ritenour & Band feat. Haffner Fischer Millener
Exhibitor-Events (FOR.0 A01), Wednesday, April 1 2009, 11:30
Exhibitor-Events (FOR.0 A01), Wednesday, April 1 2009, 14:00
Exhibitor-Events (FOR.0 A01), Thursday, April 2 2009, 11:30
Exhibitor-Events (FOR.0 A01), Thursday, April 2 2009, 14:00
Exhibitor-Events (FOR.0 A01), Friday, April 3 2009, 11:30
Exhibitor-Events (FOR.0 A01), Friday, April 3 2009, 14:00
Exhibitor-Events (FOR.0 A01), Saturday, April 4 2009, 11:30
Exhibitor-Events (FOR.0 A01), Saturday, April 4 2009, 14:00

Joe Satriani
Exhibitor-Events (4.0 C40), Friday, April 3 2009, 12:00
Exhibitor-Events (4.0 C40), Saturday, April 4 2009, 11:00
Exhibitor-Events (4.0 C08), Saturday, April 4 2009, 13:00

Steve Lukather + Band
Agora Stage (Festival Tent), Wednesday, April 1 2009, 11:00
Agora Stage (Festival Tent), Wednesday, April 1 2009, 14:30
Agora Stage (Festival Tent), Wednesday, April 1 2009, 17:00
Agora Stage (Festival Tent), Thursday, April 2 2009, 11:00
Agora Stage (Festival Tent), Thursday, April 2 2009, 14:30
Agora Stage (Festival Tent), Thursday, April 2 2009, 17:00
Agora Stage (Festival Tent), Friday, April 3 2009, 11:00
Agora Stage (Festival Tent), Friday, April 3 2009, 14:30
Agora Stage (Festival Tent), Friday, April 3 2009, 17:00
Agora Stage (Festival Tent), Saturday, April 4 2009, 11:00
Agora Stage (Festival Tent), Saturday, April 4 2009, 14:30
Agora Stage (Festival Tent), Saturday, April 4 2009, 17:00

Susan Weinert: they only come out at night

News:
20-05-2007:
A revamped web site a new CD and some more live video

The new CD Tomorrows Dream which you can buy online



Also a great video of Susan with super jazz drummer Sebastiaan Cornelissen

susan weinert band live



For fans of the old web site design



17-08-2006:
Susan Weinert Dancing on the Water 2006 release.takes a different turn from electric stuff that she has been doing with 10 fantastic new songs played by Susan and Martin Weinert on acoustic instruments.



22-07-2006:
Susan Weinert guitar Hardy Fischötter drums Martin Weinert bass perform Susan's composition Lost Paradise from the Triple Talk Live Album at the wonderful Kumanovo Jazz Festival aug 2004

lost paradise live


Susan Weinert guitar Hardy Fischötter drums Martin Weinert bass performing Susan's unreleased composition CodeTT at the wonderful Kumanovo Jazz Festival aug 2004

codeTT


05-07-2006:
A new site design and video from fusion player Susan Weinert

no sell out


snap shot


they only come out at night


flowers


darkness


the old web site design



01-11-2005:
Susan has some sound samples and musical notation for "Coming Out" in association with gitarrebass.de



Background:
Susan has been performing for more than 15 years as The Susan Weinert Band, a trio featuring Susan Weinert on guitars, Martin Weinert on bass and Hardy Fischoetter on drums.

Susan has worked with Mike Mainieri's, Jimmy Earl and Michael Ruff. Her influences include Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Wes Montgomery, Sonny Rollins, John Abercrombie, Allan Holdsworth and Scott Henderson. Her style should appeal to fans of Frank Gambale, Allan Holdsworth et al.

Her band has released four CD's releases:

• "Mysterious Stories" (1992)
• "Crunch Time" (1994)
• "The Bottom Line" (1996)
• "Point Of View" (1999)
• "Synergy"
• "Triple Talk - live"
• "Running Out of Time" (2004)

Fans of fusion playing can read the "all about jazz" review of "Running out of Time".

Check out her web site for a full: discography

You can also buy all her CD's pm line at abstract logix