Gerry Joe Weise

Gerry Joe Weise (born 1959 in Sydney, Australia), is an Australian musician, Contemporary composer, and Land artist. Who is a blues and jazz guitarist, singer-songwriter, and a contemporary composer for orchestral music. That has performed and released music albums, and exhibited artworks in Australia, Europe and the United States. He is part of the Australian art and Site-specific art movements, known for his installations in Land Art and Environmental Art. As a violinist, pianist, and percussionist, Weise composes original published music scores for the Australian 21st Century Classical music genre. Record companies: Blues Breaking Records USA, Contemporary Arc Australia, and Musea France. Weise has been playing guitar since the age of 4 years old, and a professional musician since 1976. In the beginning as a teenager, he had the guitarist spot in several Sydney bands that opened for AC/DC, Midnight Oil, Angels, Rose Tattoo and Dragon. He later moved to Europe searching for new musical experiences, while living in Germany, Switzerland and France, establishing contacts with touring agents and record companies in Europe. Weise has toured Australia, the United States, Western and Eastern Europe, Russia, Scandinavia, Hawaii, Tahiti, Fiji, Polynesia, the Azores Isles, and New Zealand. Throughout his many tours, he has played with Buddy Guy, B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, Albert Collins, Eric Clapton, and Noel Redding. While at other various European events, he has opened for Ray Charles, Gary Moore, the Yardbirds, Canned Heat, John McLaughlin, Pat Metheny, Robert Cray, Jimmie Vaughan, and Joe Louis Walker. Juma Sultan (ex Jimi Hendrix) has recently been a band member with Gerry Joe Weise for European and USA Festivals.