Agi Huppertsberg

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Arndt "Agi" Huppertsberg (* 1940 in Wuppertal ; † October 20, 1999 in Trier ) was a German pianist of hot jazz and swing .

Career

Huppertsberg had started his career as a pianist and drummer in Wuppertal bands like the Florastreet Jazzband , which he founded in 1957 with his brother Gerd "Guy" Huppertsberg, and the Two Beat Paraders . Around 1960 he went on tour in Germany with the Blue Note Juniors led by Lothar Schnell to go. He later played with the Schampus All Stars in Düsseldorf and then worked in the Atlanta jazz band there. With her he recorded the album Something Wrong? on. In 1977 he became a member of the Barrelhouse Jazz Band , to which he belonged until 1999 and with which he toured (also internationally) and released various albums. He was also a member of the clarinetist Reimer von Essen's trio and Bernd K. Otto's all-star ensemble Jazz Classics , with whom he also released albums. He died in hospital after a concert in Trier.

Until the late 1980s he was married to the double bass player Lindy Huppertsberg .

Discographic notes

  • Jazz Classics Yonder Come the Blues (Stomp Off 1983)
  • Oscar Klein Jazz Show (Koch 1986)
  • Barrelhouse jazz band Plays Ellington ( L + R Records 1988)
  • The Two Clarinet Stompers Clarinet Joys (Stomp Off 1992, with Reimer von Essen, Alain Marquet , Bernd K. Otto, Michael Daumling, Hans-Georg Klauer)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , October 21, 1999
  2. ↑ life data
  3. ↑ a b E. Dieter Fränzel (Ed.): Sounds like whoopataal. Wuppertal in the world of jazz. Published by Jazz AGe Wuppertal. Klartext, Essen 2006, p. 102
  4. ^ E. Dieter Fränzel: sounds like whoopataal. Wuppertal in the world of jazz. Essen 2006, p. 92
  5. ^ E. Dieter Fränzel: sounds like whoopataal. Wuppertal in the world of jazz. Essen 2006, p. 99
  6. ↑ Andreas Obst From Lotto Bass to Lady Bass: Lindy Huppertsberg , in: Wolfgang Sander , Jazz in Frankfurt. 1990, pp. 93-96, here p. 93
personal data
SURNAME Huppertsberg, Agi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Huppertsberg, Arndt (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician (piano)
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1999
Place of death trier