Gary Wiggins (musician)

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Gary Allen "Detroit" Wiggins (born November 10, 1952 in Inkster , Michigan ) is an American jazz and blues musician ( soprano , tenor and alto saxophone ).

Live and act

Wiggins grew up in Detroit, where he had his first experiences as a saxophonist since 1962 as a student of Brother Lawhorn in the parish of the Zion Congressional Church of God in Christ of Pastor Winans, head of the Winans Family . At Sacromento Community College he was a member of the jazz band. In 1970 he accompanied numerous R&B acts with The Impacs such as James Barnes and the Agents ( single: Free at Last) and The Dramatics ( single: Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get ), and with this band he released his first single That Good ol 'Funky feeling before. He then worked in California for five years, performing with Eddie Cleanhead Vinson , Johnny Heartsman , Roy Brown , Big Mama Thornton and other musicians. After a stay in Hawaii, where he studied with Q Martin, he moved to Chicago, where he played in the bands Lefty Dizz , Sugar Blue , Sunnyland Slim , Johnny Littlejohn and Pocketwatch Paul . Together with Christian Rannenberg he founded the International Blues Duo in 1982 , which recorded three albums and starred with Angela Brown , Valerie Wellington , Big Jay McNeely , Big Time Sarah, Roy Gaines, Charlie Musselwhite , Johnny Copeland , Johnny Heartsman, Jimmy Rodgers , Jeanne Carroll and Katie Webster went on tour.

In 1983 he moved to Germany and initially lived in Osnabrück, where he and Christian Rannenberg initiated the jam session of the legendary Pink Piano , in which Wiggins personal mentor Arnett Cobb and other stars of the international blues and jazz scene performed and Tommy Schneller decided To become a saxophonist. At the end of the 1980s, he founded the Detroit Gary Wiggins Group in Berlin , which performed in numerous European jazz clubs. He has also given concerts with Sam Leigh Brown ( Frank Popp Ensemble ), Big Time Sarah , Angela Brown, Ingrid Arthur and Dorrey Lin Lyles from The Weather Girls , Queen Yahna , Jeanne Carroll, Maisha Grant , Arnett Cobb , Louisiana Red , Carey Bell , Guitar Crusher , Roy Gaines , Tyree Glenn Jr. (also known as Aunt Tyree and saxophonist from Helge Schneider ), Albie Donnelly , Blues Company and ran the Blues Cafe Berlin in the 1990s .

From 1995 he presented the show The Saxman and the Divas in Paris and appeared in numerous Parisian jazz clubs such as the Caveau de la Huchette with Dany Doriz . In the next few years he also gave concerts in Japan. He also belonged to the band The Just No Posse and founded The Very Soulful Tenors Show (with Fuasi Abdul Khaliq and Ray Blue). He can also be heard on albums by Lefty Dizz and Shock Treatment, Klaus Lage , Bobby McFerrin , Fabrice Eulry , Roy Gaines, Robert Covington, Angela Brown, The Gospel Messenger and EB Davis , as well as on numerous blues samplers. He plays regularly in the Berlin jazz club A-Trane , performed several times at the Lahnsteiner Blues Festival and performed with Screamin Jay Hawkins at the North Sea Jazz Festival and in Greece. In 1977 he won the Gong Show with David Winans from the Winans Family and Rick Murphy as the "Show Biz Kids", in 2001 he received the 2nd prize at the Berlin Jazz & Blues Award , for which there was also a CD, as well as the prize of German record review for the album Accoustic Soul 1994 with Christian Christl .

Discographic notes

  • Introducing The International Blues Duo To The World (1984)
  • The International Blues Duo Meets Blues Wire - Truly International ( 1987/2014 )
  • Bobby McFerrin feat. Detroit Gary Wiggins: Bobby's Thing & Lady Fair (1988)
  • The International Blues Duo Featuring Katie Webster (1989)
  • Time For Saxin ' (1990)
  • Detroit Gary Wiggins & CC the Boogieman: Accoustic Soul (1992)
  • I Got Up (1996)
  • Fabrice Eulry & Detroit Gary Wiggins: Paris Jook (1996)
  • Detroit Gary Wiggins & CC the Boogieman: Accoustic Soul (1992)
  • Ballads in a Diplomatic Lounge (2004)
  • Timeless (2005)
  • Saxin 'the Blues (2011)

Web links

proof

  1. ↑ a b c The DGW Interview from 2002. Retrieved July 8, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Web presence of "Detroit" Gary Wiggins. Retrieved July 6, 2016 .
  3. ↑ THE DRAMATICS ~ WHATCHA SEE IS WHATCHA GET. November 14, 2010, accessed July 8, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b Michael Rauhut, Reinhard Lorenz: I've had the blues a little longer. Traces of a music in Germany . Ed .: Michael Rauhut, Reinhard Lorenz. Ch. Links Verlag, 2008, ISBN 3-86153-495-9 , p. 201, 202, 205, 211, 394 .
  5. ↑ The Impacs - Good Old Funky Feelin. December 13, 2014, accessed July 8, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Svensk tidskrift för musikforskning: Swedish journal of musicology . Svenska samfunde, January 1, 1986 ( google.com [accessed July 10, 2016]).
  7. ^ Blues Unlimited . BU Publications Limited, January 1, 1982 ( google.com [accessed July 10, 2016]).
  8. ↑ Michael Rauhut: One sound - two worlds: Blues in a divided Germany, 1945 to 1990 . transcript Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-8394-3387-4 ( google.com [accessed July 10, 2016]).
  9. ↑ Blues Guide Germany: the book about the blues in Germany: [bands, clubs, agencies, labels, festivals, initiatives] . Verlag Dirk Föhrs, 1997, ISBN 978-3-9804496-0-1 ( google.com [accessed July 10, 2016]).
  10. ↑ Living Blues . Center for the Study of Southern Culture, The University of Mississippi, January 1, 1987 ( google.com [accessed July 10, 2016]).
  11. ^ Charly Musselwhite and Detroit Gary Wiggins in Concert. In: jazzdaten.ch. Retrieved July 10, 2016 .
  12. ^ "The International Blues Duo" website. Retrieved July 6, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Volker Albold / Rainer Bratfisch: Blues Today . Ed .: Rainer Albold. Lied der Zeit Musikverlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-7332-0027-6 , p. 142-143, 155 .
  14. ^ Uwe Manzke: Blues in Germany. Retrieved July 8, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Cadence . B. Rusch, January 1, 1993 ( google.de [accessed July 10, 2016]).
  16. ↑ Michael Rauhut: I've had the blues a little longer: traces of music in Germany . Ed .: Michael Rauhut, Reinhard Lorenz. Ch. Links Verlag, 2008, ISBN 3-86153-495-9 , p. 201, 202, 205, 211, 394 .
  17. ↑ Big City Blues Magazine . Detroit Blues Magazine, October 1, 1997 ( google.com [accessed July 10, 2016]).
  18. ^ Matthias Rickling: Osnabrück from A to Z: Interesting facts in 1500 key words about history, art and culture . Aschendorff, 2007, ISBN 978-3-402-06554-9 ( google.com [accessed July 10, 2016]).
  19. ^ Ingrid Montgomery-Swinton: Go Red Go, Blow Arnett Blow: The life of Arnett Cobb. Ingrid Montgomery-Swinton, Lizette Cobb, p. 3 , accessed July 7, 2016 .
  20. ↑ The Pink Piano in the "secret blues capital" Osnabrück. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 6, 2016 ; Retrieved July 6, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.olli-gee.de
  21. ↑ Verlagsgruppe Rhein Main GmbH & Co. KG: Tommy Schneller at SWR - & # 132; Summertime Blues & # 147; - General newspaper. Retrieved July 6, 2016 .
  22. ↑ Pink Piano Osnabrueck 1986. Accessed July 6, 2016 .
  23. ^ Arnett Cobb's Last Recorded Concert at the "Pink Piano" with Gary Wiggins. Retrieved July 6, 2016 .
  24. ↑ a b self-representation on Facebook. Retrieved July 6, 2016 .
  25. ↑ Jeanne Carroll, Gary, Louisiana Red, Carey Bell, CC.the Boogieman | Facebook. Retrieved July 7, 2016 .
  26. ^ Jürgen Wölfer: Jazz in Germany: the lexicon; all musicians and record companies from 1920 until today . Hannibal, 2008, ISBN 978-3-85445-274-4 ( google.com [accessed July 10, 2016]).
  27. ^ Wolfgang Peter: Kurhaus Baden-Baden: The Night of the Saxophones. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 10, 2016 ; Retrieved July 10, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bad-bad.de
  28. ↑ Todor Todorovic: On the road again: 30 years of the Blues Company: on the road in the name of the blues . Books on Demand GmbH *** 97709, 2004, ISBN 978-3-8334-1867-9 ( google.com [accessed July 10, 2016]).
  29. ↑ http://www.caveaudelahuchette.fr/
  30. ^ Dany Doriz, Christian Mars: 60 Ans de jazz au Caveau de la Huchette . Ed .: Cabu. L'Archipel, Paris 2008, ISBN 2-8098-0033-2 , pp. 86-87 .
  31. ↑ Tom Lord: The jazz discography . Lord Music Reference, 2001, ISBN 978-1-881993-24-7 ( google.com [accessed July 10, 2016]).
  32. ^ Detroit Gary Wiggins discography at All About Jazz. In: Musicians. Retrieved July 6, 2016 .
  33. ^ Detroit Gary Wiggins - Discography, Records, Releases and Compilations. Retrieved July 8, 2016 .
  34. ↑ Volker Albold, Rainer Bratfisch: Blues today: Music between light and shadow . Song of Time, January 1, 1987 ( google.com [accessed July 10, 2016]).
  35. ^ Gary and Screamin Jay Hawkins | Facebook. Retrieved July 6, 2016 .
  36. ↑ personal conversations
  37. ^ "Ella": 1st Jazz & Blues Award Berlin presented by the BKA. Retrieved July 7, 2016 .
  38. ^ Jazzinitiative Berlin eV - 2001. Accessed July 7, 2016 .
  39. ↑ Christian Christl - Boogie Woogie musician on Boogie Online. Retrieved July 6, 2016 .
  40. ^ Sächsische Landesbibliothek - State and University Library Dresden (SLUB) catalog. Retrieved July 11, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Wiggins, Gary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wiggins, Gary Detroit (stage name); Wiggins, Gary Allen (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz and blues musician (saxophone)
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Inkster , Michigan , United States