Erhard Hirt
Erhard Hirt (born October 31, 1951 in Bonn ) is a German jazz and improvisation musician ( guitar , electronics).
Live and act
Hirt initially played self-taught blues before working with jazz-oriented rock bands from 1970. From 1974 he played in the experimental group "Jazz community," but in addition also with blues bands like the "Delta Blues Band" or "Matt Walsh blues band" before he founded his own improvisation ensemble in 1979, with whom he on the 1981 Moers Festival occurred . He then played with Wolfgang Fuchs , Hans Schneider and Paul Lytton in the group XPACT, which recorded the album "Frogman's View" in 1984, but also in a trio with Schneider and Radu Malfatti . In addition to Fuchs, Malfatti and Lytton, he was involved in founding the European "King Übü Orchestrü" in the mid-1980s. With Phil Minton and Willi Kellers he appeared in a trio, with Lol Coxhill in a duo. In 1990 he formed a duo with Dietmar Diesner , in 1992 he was a member of the Humannoise Ensemble, along with Helmut Bieler-Wendt , Maud Sauer and Uwe Oberg . He continued to work with Anne LeBaron, Phil Wachsmann and Alfred Zimmerlin , with Minton and John Butcher (CD 1996) as well as with the multi-instrumentalist Martin Klapper and with the Swiss vocalist Dorothea Schürch . Since 1977 he has also performed solo projects, released solo albums and also toured the USA with them. He also performed with other guitarists such as Derek Bailey , Hans Reichel , Joe Sachse , Uwe Kropinski , Eugene Chadbourne , Jean-Marc Montera and Stephan Wittwer . In the guitar quartet Extended Guitars he meets Keith Rowe , Hans Tammen and Nick Didkovsky . Since 1997 he has been part of the Realtime Ensemble , in which improvisers from North Rhine-Westphalia such as Mark Charig , Gunda Gottschalk , Ute Völker , Melvyn Poore , Stefan Keune and Thomas Lehn work together. He recorded the album "Trinidad" (1999) with Lehn and Martin Theurer .
In 1984, Hirt received the WDR's “Town Music Prize” . According to the journal "Guitar Techniques", he is "one of the most original and fascinating experimental solo guitarists at the moment ..."
Lexigraphic entries
- Martin Kunzler : Jazz Lexicon. Volume 1: A – L (= rororo-Sachbuch. Vol. 16512). 2nd Edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-16512-0 .
Web links
- Works by and about Erhard Hirt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Erhard Hirt's website with discography
Individual evidence
- ^ Guitar Techniques. 3/1995
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shepherd, Erhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz and improvisation musician (guitar, electronics) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bonn |