Jürgen Kerth
Jürgen Kerth (* 19th July 1948 in Erfurt ) is a German Blues - guitarist and singer .
Life
Jürgen Kerth completed an apprenticeship as a precision mechanic. Kerth's career began in 1964 with the school band Spotlights (together with Heinz-Jürgen Gottschalk ), which, under pressure from the cultural authorities, had to rename itself to "Rampenlichter" and was banned in 1966. He then founded the Rock & Blues Ensemble Kerth in 1967 . After completing his musical training at the Erfurt Music School , he founded the Jürgen Kerth Quintet and the Jürgen Kerth group in 1971, which became a quartet in 1973 and a trio after the bassist Roland Michi died in 1979 . Virtuoso guitar and vocal technique shape his blues-tinged rock music , but he also played excellent jazz-oriented instrumentals . He recorded several LPs and singles , a selection is included on the sampler Best of Blues . In 2002, Clueso covered his song Night Out . In 2006 the CD Blues anthology was published .
Kerth is committed as a volunteer ambassador for the Children's Hospice Foundation for Central Germany Nordhausen e. V. in Tambach-Dietharz and lives in Erfurt.
On June 27, 2019, the 30-minute musician portrait Jürgen Kerth - The Blues King from Erfurt by Tatjana Kadegge was published in the MDR TV series CVs .
Award
In 1999, Kerth received the City of Erfurt's Culture Prize .
tape
Current (changing cast)
- Stefan Kerth - bass
- Daniel Bätge - bass
- Jürgen Feuerbach - bass
- Lothar Wilke - keyboard
- Matthias Bätzel - keyboard
- Alexander Bätzel - drums
- Tony Natale - drums
- Marco Thiermann - drums
- Alexander Wicher - drums
former members
- Roland Michi (until 1979) - bass
- Artur Geidel (until 1979) - drums
- Bernd Hupe - drums
- Eberhard Meyerdirks (from 1979) - drums
- Siegfried Heilek - drums
- Christoph Kerth - drums (1990-1993)
Discography
Singles
- 1973: Marie / She was my demon
- 1975: Martha / Your train leaves
- 1977: ... and she's happy about it / Yo-Yo
Albums
- 1978: Jürgen Kerth group - Amiga
- 1980: Come in - Amiga
- 1982: Gloriosa - Amiga
- 1991: Rock from Germany, Vol. 8: Jürgen Kerth - Deutsche Schallplatten GmbH Berlin
- 2000: The Best of Blues - Sony BMG
- 2006: I love the one - Amiga / Sony BMG
- That someone helps you - self-published
- Made for USA (in English) - self-published
- Come on, let's lick our wounds - self-published
literature
- HP Hofmann: Beat Lexicon. Performers, authors, technical terms . VEB Lied der Zeit Musikverlag, Berlin (East) 1977. (To the Rock & Blues Ensemble Kerth .)
- Short biography for: Kerth, Jürgen . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- "Jürgen Kerth - Blues is the elixir of life"; bluesnews 55 (October - December 2008) ISSN 0948-5643
Individual evidence
- ^ Sächsische Zeitung of 29./30. November 2014
- ^ Sächsische Zeitung of 29./30. November 2014
- ↑ CVs: Jürgen Kerth , MDR , accessed July 15, 2019
Web links
- Literature by and about Jürgen Kerth in the catalog of the German National Library
- Jürgen Kerth's website
- Portrait at deutsche-mugge.de
- Discography ( Memento from June 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- Press and photo database, concert reports, discography at ostmusik.de ( Memento from April 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- Merged with the guitar by Thomas Behlert, at ostmusik.de ( Memento from March 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Kerth, Jürgen |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German blues guitarist and singer |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 19, 1948 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Erfurt |