Klaus Weiss

Klaus Weiss (1942-2008) was a German jazz drummer and bandleader, born in Gevelsberg, Westphalia. Klaus Weiss played in the Klaus Doldinger Quartet in the 1960s, then led his own trios, quintets and big bands, and from the 1970s also recorded drum-driven library music for production labels. Weiss turned professional at sixteen with the Jazzopators. He played at the Blue Note in Paris with Bud Powell, Johnny Griffin and Kenny Drew, and in 1966 he won the International Jazz Competition in Vienna.