Nils Fischer / Timbazo

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2008 TIMBAZO Dutch tour “¡Gracias Joe Cuba!”

2008 North Sea Jazzfestival with TIMBAZO, main stage. Featuring Brian Lynch & José “Pepe” Espinosa

2008 Cubop City Bigband tour Colombia, Aruba, Curaçao, Suriname

2008 Nueva Manteca Mexico

2008 Drums United Cyprus

2008 Nueva Manteca tour featuring Dave Valentín

2008 Cubop City Bigband tour featuring Andy Gonzalez

2008 Founding of CABOCUBAJAZZ; tour The Netherlands

2008 Metropole Orchestra tour “Memorias De Cuba”

2008 Drums United tour "Rhythms Of The World

2008 Various recording sessions: Cubop City Bigband, Metropole Orchestra,

Nueva Manteca, Drums United, Armando Vidal, Latin Roma.



2007 Cd release party Timbazo's Cd "¡Gracias Joe Cuba!"

2007 Cubop City Bigband tour "Latin Divas"

2007 Bulgaria/ Serbia tour Drums United

2007 Drums United tour "Ritmo Inferno"

2007 Recording session Doble Jugada

2007 Nueva Manteca tour "Motown Mambo"

2006 Nueva Manteca tour Colombia

2006 Drums United tour "Ritmo Inferno"

2006 Recording session with Ramón & Elsa Valle in Budapest, Hungary

2006 Pure Jazz Festival Cubop City Big Band

2006 writing articles for Dutch Magazine "Slagwerkkrant"

2006 recording sessions in Madrid and in The Netherlands for solo cd

2006 Nueva Manteca tour "My Fair Lady"

2006 Nueva Manteca Croatia

2006 North Sea Jazz Festival Cubop City Big Band

2006 Fabian Nodarse tour Belgium

2006 Drums United tour "World of Rhythm"

2006 Cubop City Big Band tour Bonaire & Curaçao

2006 Cubop City Big Band tour "Latin Vocal Explosion"

2005 Nueva Manteca tour "My Fair Lady"

2005 Drums United tour "World of Rhythm"

2005 Cubop City Big Band tour "Tribute to Afro Cuba"

2005 Cubop City Big Band tour "Latin Guitar Explosion"

2005 Buena Vista Social Club concert in Brussels with a.o. Pio Leiva, El Nene & Cotó

2004 Nueva Manteca tour with Orestes Vilató

2004 North Sea Jazz Festival

2004 Drums United tour "World of Rhythm"

2003 Puerto Rico Heineken Jazz Festival with Nueva Manteca

2003 Nueva Manteca tour "The Westside Story" with Jeroen van Merwijk

2003 Cubop City Big Band Tour "The Mambo Kings"

2002 Trip to Puerto Rico, playing with Michael Stuart (supported by Dutch Ministry of Arts)

2002 till present with FABIAN NODARSE

2002 Nueva Manteca tour with Ralph Irrizarry

2002 Drums United tour "HIT"

2001 Trip to Cuba, playing & recording with members of "Charanga Habanera" (supported by Dutch Ministry of Arts)

2001 Rumbata tour Greece

2001 Gerardo Rosales y su Trabucombo tour with Frankie Vazquez & Roberto Quintero

2001 Euro Radio Big Band Meeting for EBU 

2001 Descarga Amsterdam tour with Brian Lynch

2001 Cubop City Big Band tour with tresero Nelson Gonzales

2001 Cubop City Big Band France

2000 till present joins percussiongroup DRUMS UNITED

2000 Nueva Manteca tour Israel

2000 North Sea Jazz Festival

2000 La Banda Iré in Imatra Finland

2000 Carlos Matos tour

2000 Bomba Moderna France

1999 Trip to New York (supported by Dutch Ministry of Arts)

1999 Tour Bonaire, Sint Maarten, Curaçao & Aruba with the Cubop City Big Band

1999 Rumbata in Cape Verde

1999 Recording concert video with "Combinaçao Malta Dumee" starring Carlos Malta

1999 North Sea Jazz Festival

1999 Cubop City Big Band tour with percussionist Armando Peraza

1999 Carlos Matos tour Cape Verde with Luis Morais and Ildu Lobo

1998 till present percussion teacher at Rotterdams Conservatory (CODARTS)

1998 Nueva Manteca tour with Luis Conte 

1998 Nueva Manteca at Salsa Festival Turku Finland

1998 Carlos Matos tour with Titina

1997 till 2001 with LA BANDA IRÉ, houseband in clubs: Amsterdam's "Meander"

1997 Nueva Manteca tour USA & Canada

1997 Nueva Manteca tour Denmark & Finland

1997 Cubop City Big Band tour with Edy Martinez

1996 Nueva Manteca on Trinidad & Tobago

1996 Nueva Manteca Jazzfestival Kouvola Finland

1996 North Sea Jazz Festival

1996 Cubop City Big Band tour with Chocolate Armenteros

1995 till present with CUBOP CITY BIG BAND

1995 Nueva Manteca tour with Claudio Roditi

1995 Nueva Manteca tour with Bobby Sanabria

1995 Nueva Manteca tour USA

1995 Nueva Manteca tour Germany

1995 Nueva Manteca tour Denmark

1995 “Award for outstanding service to jazz education” in Los Angeles

1994 till present with CARLOS MATOS

1994 Nueva Manteca tour with Orestes Vilató

1994 Nueva Manteca Leeds International Music Festival

1994 North Sea Jazz Festival

1994 Euro Jazz Night TV show

1993 till present teacher at the PENTATON PERCUSSION SCHOOL

1993 Nueva Manteca tour with Armando Peraza

1993 Nueva Manteca tour Porgy & Bess

1992 till present concerts at Dutch concert halls and tv shows such as Van Barend & Dorp,

VARA Laat, Reiziger, Klokhuis, Bert Visser.

1992 till present with NUEVA MANTECA 

1992 Nueva Manteca with Giovanni Hidalgo

1991 until today playing in the dutch jazz, worldmusic and Latin scene

1991 till 1996 studies at Rotterdams Conservatory, graduating Cum Laude

1988 tour in California, USA with highschool band

1988 extensive studies in Santiago de Cuba and Havana

1986 till 1991 busy in local jazz, worldmusic and Latin scene

1983 starts playing percussion



BIOGRAPHY - TEXT VERSION



Nils Fischer is one of the most important European percussionists, touring and recording with Nueva Manteca, Cubop City Big Band, Drums United, with his own groups Timbazo and CaboCubaJazz as well as with many others. He has shared the stage with such legendary figures as Giovanni Hidalgo, Pío Leiva, Orestes Vilató, Armando Peraza, Paquito D'Rivera and Chocolate Armenteros.

He studied in Cuba, Brazil, Puerto Rico and at the Rotterdam Conservatory where he obtained his “Masters Degree Percussion” in 1996 cum laude. His teachers include Giovanni Hidalgo, Jerry Gonzalez, L. van Merwijk, Orestes Vilató, Roberto Vizcaíno, Panga and Anthony Carillo.

Nils’ interest in music started at an early age, growing up in a musical family in Bremen, Germany. One of his earliest memories from childhood is his father practicing guitar before gigs at night. His own instrumental experience started when he began to attend piano lessons at the age of ten. He remembers: “One day my sister brought home a Paquito D’Rivera record with Daniel Ponce on congas - this changed my life, all I wanted from then on was to play percussion.” At that time, he would have never imagined that 20 years later he would find himself performing with Paquito in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Nils has appeared on more than 40 albums as a recording artist.



In 2007 he released a CD with his own group TIMBAZO. It is entitled ¡Gracias Joe Cuba! and serves as a tribute to veteran percussionist Joe Cuba. Top artists including Brian Lynch, Alain Pérez , José “Pepe” Espinosa and Alberto “Molote” Muñoz contributed to its making. The album – mixed by Jon Fausty - received rave reviews both at home and abroad (see reviews below).

It was pre-nominated for the Latin Grammy Awards 2008 in four categories. TIMBAZO is nominated for the Mixed Magazine Worldmusic Award 2009.



In 2008, Nils founded the group CaboCubaJazz. “CaboCubaJazz melts two different cultures without any effort - sensational!” Volkskrant [national Dutch newspaper]



Nils currently teaches at the World Music Department of Codarts [Rotterdam Conservatory] and at the Pentaton Percussion School in Germany. He gave workshops in Finland and Austria. In 1995 he received the award for “outstanding service to Jazz education” in Los Angeles.

Nils Fischer endorses Pearl Percussion and Regal Tip drumsticks.

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