Klaus Göbel
Klaus Göbel (born July 18, 1942 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German jazz musician ( organ , also keyboards ).
Live and act
Göbel already played the accordion as a four-year-old and learned to play the piano autodidactically as a child . At the Helmholtz School he came into contact with jazz. After discovering an old Hammond organ , he switched to it and performed in American clubs in his hometown in the 1960s, as well as in Carlo Bohländer's domicile du jazz . In 1970 he appeared at the German Jazz Festival with the rock jazz group From , which he founded with Gustl Mayer and Kurt Bong ; with the group, which existed until 1976, he presented two albums. Then he went about his job as a mechanical engineer until the acid jazz made the organ sound current again. In 1994 he founded the band Organizm with Jürgen Schwab , Michael Ehret and bassist Patrick Langer. He also performed with the hr big band . His album Finally Back Home (2000) was recognized in Weltwoche as "the most beautiful organ record in a long time".
Discographic notes
- From »0611« Cat Quarter (1970, with Gustl Mayer, Dieter von Goetze , Kurt Bong)
- From power on! (1972)
- Finally Back Home (2000, with Michael Sagmeister , Thomas Heidepriem , Michael Ehret)
- Michael Sagmeister True to the Moment (2010, with Michael Küttner , Götz Ommert , Antonella D'Orio)
literature
- Jürgen Schwab: The Frankfurt sound. A city and its jazz history (s). Societäts-Verlag. Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-7973-0888-4 .
- Jürgen Wölfer : Jazz in Germany. The encyclopedia. All musicians and record companies from 1920 until today. Hannibal, Höfen 2008, ISBN 978-3-85445-274-4 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Goebel, Klaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 18, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |