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    T.C. Pfeiler
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    Prof. T.C. Pfeiler was born in 1958 as Ewald Pfeiler in Salzburg, Austria, a city where classical music-genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in 1756.

    1966
    First contact with improvised music at the ORFF – Institute of Salzburg.

    1973
    Teenager Ewald Pfeiler joined the local amateur cover-band "Up To Date".

    1978
    Pfeiler left the band to work as a Hammond Jazz-organist professionally. For a few months he played solo. In August 1978 he formed his first regular working-trio with Hammond organ, guitar and drums. A hard project During the late 1970's the original Hammond organ was replaced more and more by synthesizers and electric-pianos, but T.C. was on his way!

    Since 1978
    Concerts and recording-sessions with top names of the international Jazz, Funk and Blues-scene, like Herb Ellis, Red Holloway, Jim Galloway, Spike Robinson, Frank Foster, Bill Elgart, Ken Peplowski, Wild Bill Davis, Jack McDuff (four handed on a Hammond B3), Maceo Parker, Peter O'Mara and most of the famous European musicians like Joe Nay, Carl Drewo, Joris Dudli, Michael Honzak, Mario Gonzi, Peter Legat, Louie Austen among others. Workes for recording studios, radio & TV-shows as a composer and producer.

    April 18, 1978
    Pfeiler met Jazz-organ pioneer Wild Bill Davis for the first time at "Internationale Jazzwoche Burghausen", a well known Jazz-Festival at the Bavarian countryside. Wild Bill Davis replaced Hamp´s long time pianist, organist, arranger & composer Milt Buckner who passed on July 27, 1977. Wild Bill Davis used Pfeiler's early Hammond organ, model C-3 console for the Burghausen concert date. It was the beginning of a great friendship between the legendary Jazz-organ pioneer and the very young Jazz-organ newcomer from Austria.

    1979 – 1981
    T.C. Pfeiler studied in Salzburg, Austria and in Munich, Germany, but friend and mentor Jazz-organ pioneer Wild Bill Davis (Nov. 26, 1918 – Aug. 17, 1995) was his most important teacher. T.C. Pfeiler was his only regular private student ever.

    1980
    Europe tour with Lionel Hampton's Bigband "Giants of Jazz" and Wild Bill Davis for Hammond. After a few days, Hamp and the other musicians called him "T.C." ("The Console" = Hammond Console organ).

    Stars of the 1980 Hampton Bigband: Joe Newman, Cat Anderson and Wallace Davenport on trumpet, Curtis Fuller on trombone and sax legends Arnette Cleophus Cobb and Illinois Jacquet as special guests. Playing sessions with the old giants was the best school for T.C. Pfeiler in his early years as a Jazz-organist.

    1984
    Eventually, the Austrian Gov. of Justice and Finance told Pfeiler in 1984 that he would have to register the "T.C." in his passport, social security card etc. as a regular artis'’s name.

    "T.C. Pfeiler & Hammond B-3" became an international trademark for high quality Jazz-organ music. Today, T.C. Pfeiler is known as Austria's first international Hammond Jazz-organist. Soon after he was called "Hammond Guru" by publishers of music magazines.

    Nov. 26, 1987
    Wild Bill Davis and T.C. Pfeiler recorded live on two Hammond B-3 organs with Rudi Renger, guitar and Michael Honzak on drums. The material was released partially on LP "Wild Bill Davis / T.C. Pfeiler – 70th / 30th Anniversary Live Concert". It was Wild Bill´s only double organ recording session ever.

    1987
    T.C. Pfeiler met Miss Ulrike Mühlbachler for the first time. It was the start of long and outstanding relationship.

    1997
    "T.C. Pfeiler's Jazzid Funk" was born as a "band of bandleaders" in Vienna, Austria: T.C. Pfeiler – Hammond B-3 organ, Peter Legat – g, Harry Sokal – ts & ss, Tommy Boeroecz – dr, & Stephan Maass – perc.

    2003
    T.C. Pfeiler's very successful Hammond B-3 Lounge Project was established. T.C.'s long time partner and producer / promoter, painting artist "Miss" Ulrike Mühlbachler is featured on drums.

    April 10, 2008
    T.C. Pfeiler was honored by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture with the title "Professor" for his work as a leading Hammond Jazz-organist since 30 years and for the extremely high output of compositions.

    May 2011
    After testing the prototype of Hammond's new stage organ SK2, T.C. Pfeiler signed endorser contracts with Hammond-Suzuki Europe B.V.: The beginning of a new era.

    2014 & 2015
    T.C. Pfeiler finished composition no.: 6.500 and recorded the very first album with his first band "Up To Date (Reunion Band)".

    On the one hand, T.C. Pfeiler cultivates the tradition of Hammond Organ with Jazz and Blues, and on the other hand, he embraces the modern. There are Blues and Mainstream-Jazz oriented regular working trios and quartets, experimental duos and trios with organ and drums or with organ, sax and drums and T.C. Pfeiler's outstanding project "Jazzid Funk".

    Every T.C. Pfeiler project sounds great: for example, listen to T.C.'s original compositions on "Out Of Space"! It sounds completely unstrained and very different from other Jazz-organists. T.C. Pfeiler, a creative, restless working musician and composer created his very own language in music!