Jan Schlegel

Jan Schlegel is a Swiss electric bassist and improviser born in 1964. He studied at the Lucerne Jazz School and with Ken McIntyre in New York, developing a practice that combines free improvisation and composition across jazz, contemporary music, experimental rock and noise.

His groups have included Noisy Minority, Objets Trouvés, Tresbass and Billiger Bauer, alongside duo work with Luigi Archetti. He has taught electric bass at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts since 1990. Creative Sources released Quince Dreams (CS568), documenting his bass in a trio with Roberto Domeniconi and Sheldon Suter.