Eberhard Stolle
Eberhard Stolle (born October 20, 1950 ), also Big Joe Stolle , is a German blues musician , guitarist , harmonica player and songwriter from Berlin .
Musical development
At the end of the 1960s, Stolle played in various amateur bands in the Rostock beat scene , a. a. with toeboard and kaleidoscope . During his basic military service in the GDR army from 1972 to 1973 , he was a member of a soldiers' band. From 1973 to 1977 he studied classical singing and later dance music at the Music Academy in Leipzig . After serving in the army, he joined the Leipzig band Soft , played temporarily with Karussell and Mama Basuto . At the same time he turned to the blues , to which he has remained true to this day. In the early 1980s, he moved to Zenit with other former Basuto colleagues . The band, which was founded in Rostock in 1975 and later moved to East Berlin , received professional status in 1979 and existed until 1990. The band, whose line-up changed several times, included: Eberhard Stolle (vocals, guitar, harmonica), Wilfried Kaminski (vocals, Guitar), Joachim Rudolf (vocals, guitar), Reinhard Daisy Kehl (vocals, guitar), Klaus-Dieter Brieger (vocals, drums), Jürgen Schötz (drums), Berndt Schumacher (piano, saxophone), Hans-Jörg Erbse Moser ( † 2006 / bass), Andreas Schrödter (bass), Rene Moosgraber (bass), Jens Stache (piano) and Alexander Blume (vocals, piano, keyboard). The band achieved a top position in the GDR blues scene and Stolle developed into an outstanding blues harp player alongside Bernd Kleinow . At the end of the 1980s the band was regularly present in the GDR media and in 1985 the GDR label Amiga produced the first long-playing record with Zenit .
In the early 1990s, Stolle performed together with Alexander Blume , who is now known as a boogie pianist from Thuringia , and the Intercity Blues Band . He has been a soloist since the mid-1990s, has appeared on stage with international musicians such as Champion Jack Dupree , Charlie Musselwhite and Jack Bruce and occasionally appears with Bernd Kleinow, Reinhard Daisy Kehl and the Bluesmachine band . Musically, Stolle today presents a mixture of boogie, soul and blues. He has appeared as Big Joe Stolle since 1991, where he played and plays with Berlin-based and international musicians in various line-ups.
Discography
LPs
- 1983 Zenit on Amiga sampler Kleeblatt No. 10
- 1985 Zenit + Big City Blues Band: Dr. Blues (Amiga)
- 1987 Zenit Live: Let The Good Times Roll (Amiga)
CDs
- 1990 with A. Blume: Reflection in Blues (Casino Records)
- 1993 The Blues -live-
- 1994 17 + 4 -live-
- 1997 cover up
- 1999 with Bluesmachine: Bluesmachine -live-
- 2014 Plug in and go
See also
literature
- Melody and Rhythm , East Berlin, No. 9/1985
- Michael Rauhut , Thomas Kochan (Eds.): Bye, Bye Lübben City . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-602-X .
Web links
- Portrait of Zenit at deutsche-mugge.de
- Portrait at ostbeat.de ( Memento from June 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (archive version)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 60 years of Big Joe Stolle - The birthday concert on October 25, 2010 in the BASSY . deutsche-mugge.de. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Stolle, Eberhard |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stolle, Big Joe |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German blues musician, guitarist, harmonica player and songwriter |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 20, 1950 |