Hartwig Bartz

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Hartwig Bartz (born February 21, 1936 in Rammelsbach ; † April 29, 2001 ) was a German modern jazz drummer . He is considered to be the most important drummer in German jazz around 1960.

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Bartz, who came from a family of musicians from West Palatinate, taught himself to play the drums as an autodidact . As a professional musician, he initially worked in the US troop support in Baumholder and at other military locations in the West Palatinate . In 1958 he accompanied Stan Getz in Hamburg , then toured with Chet Baker and performed in Baden-Baden with Oscar Pettiford . From 1959 to 1960 he played regularly at the Heidelberg Jazz Club Cave 54 in a quartet with Karl Berger (piano and vibraphone), Bent Jædig (tenor saxophone), and Joop Christopher (bass). In 1960 he was considered a hard bop specialist and played with Peter Trunk in the quintet of Albert Mangelsdorff , in which he stayed until 1961 and "continued to advance its stylistic development with its rhythmic diversity that was unique in German jazz at the time." Bartz graduated, albeit with a high level of attention not undisputed appearances, including at the German Jazz Festival in 1960 and 1962. At the Antibes Festival , he was honored as the best drummer. He continued to play with Fritz Münzer , Wolfgang Lauth , Don Cherry , Egon and Freddy Christmann before moving to Hamburg and Berlin, where he worked in 1965 a. a. played with Leo Wright in the eastern part of the city, but also appeared with the cabaret artist Wolfgang Neuss in his program "Neussgericht". He then went to Munich, where he worked at Domicile with Joe Haider , Pony Poindexter , Olaf Kübler and Alexander von Schlippenbach until 1969 . In Hamburg he then played with Michael Naura .

She collapsed and withdrew from drug addiction. In January 1971, under circumstances that were never fully understood, he slew his wife and had to spend almost two decades in a closed psychiatry. Released in 1989, he was no longer able to pursue a regular job.

Discographic notes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Schwab, The Frankfurt Sound . Frankfurt am Main 2004, pp. 153f.

literature

  • Klaudia Gilcher: Palatinate résumés. The rise and fall of jazz legend Hartwig Bartz. In: Die Rheinpfalz , February 9, 2008.
  • Jürgen Wölfer : Jazz in Germany. The encyclopedia. All musicians and record companies from 1920 until today. Hannibal, Höfen 2008, ISBN 978-3-85445-274-4 .

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personal data
SURNAME Bartz, Hartwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz drummer
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Rammelsbach
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 2001