Christoph Isermann

Raised with the music from Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Weather Report, James Brown, Baden Powell and Tom Jobim, Christoph Isermann started to play bass and piano in several jazz funk bands in Germany. In 1994 he worked as a writer, producer, bass player and keyboarder in Londons soul and acid jazz scene with people like Maysa Leak (Incognito) or The Brand New Heavies. With Yak Bondys band "Zero G", he conquered the british charts with a hip hop version of "Peter & the wolf" which was very much respected by the british media and sold gold in the UK. In the same year, he formed the electric jazz project "Gamut of Crime" and produced the Debut Album of the "Supreme chord Jesters" (Jazzpoetry, Soul, NuJazz). From 1996 on, Christoph continued to work as arranger, keyboarder and bass player for Randy Crawford, Mousse T., Mary J. Blige and nuyorican Soul, and was also writing classical music for symphony orchestras and film scoring. Apart from his jazz and Soul background, he was fascinated by electronic music and Bossa nova. So five years later he started the breakbeat/jazz collective "Brown, Smith & Grey". With that project he had many releases on 12" vinyl which were listed often in the German Club Charts and also released on compilations like Brazilectro, Brazilution, Destination Out, Nova Soul, Asia Lounge or Afrotronic. Many of these tracks were produced with brazilian singer Janice Andrade which were relased on more than 50 compilations in Japan, France, Spain, Germany and the US . Current Projects are Concorde a L`Orange myspace.com/concordealorange , Calcutta Offroad myspace.com/calcuttaoffroad, At the Moment Isermann produces the Debut-Album of the brazilian singer Janice Andrade.