Andreas Polte

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Andreas "Andi" Polte (born May 10, 1958 in Bergneustadt ) is a German jazz musician ( guitar , composition) and music journalist.

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Polte began to learn guitar at the age of 16. At first he played folk and rock music . He discovered jazz through guitarist and singer Pete Lewis . First he played a fusion of swing , gypsy jazz and bossa nova in a guitar trio ; then he oriented himself towards modern jazz , he founded the septet Seven Steps and took lessons from Michael Borne , Paul Shigihara and Michael Sagmeister . Between 1996 and 1999 he studied cultural management at the Fernuniversität Hagen .

Since 1997 he has run a duo with Ali Claudi and played with musicians from the Cologne scene such as Rolf Römer , Bernt Laukamp and John Goldsby , but also with Hans Braber and Leslie Searle . Together with Stefan Heidtmann , he organized a local jazz festival for several years.

In 1996 he released his first album Some of the Songs I Did . In 2000 the CD Christmas Jazz, largely arranged by him, followed with the Christmas Jazz Trio, which also consisted of the pianist Alexander Hopff and the flugelhornist Martin Zobel. The third album followed with the ATP Jazz Trio with the saxophonist Stefan Aschenbrenner and Oliver Trost as the second guitarist. A heart attack hampered his further career as a musician. As a producer, he presented several archtop samplers, and in 2006 he also contributed his own recording to one of them.

In 2004 Polte founded the internet platform archtop-germany.de , which is also internationally successful. He sits on the board of trustees for the awarding of the Archtop Germany Award and the Archtop Germany CD of the year . Since 2007 he has also been writing for the guitar magazine Grand Guitars .

He was also the initiator of the "International Archtop Meeting Germany", which took place every two years until 2012, and pioneer of the Archtop Forum in Kandel (Palatinate), which has been held every two years since 2015 .

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SURNAME Polte, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Polte, Andi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician and music journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Bergneustadt