Jürgen Kerth

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Jürgen Kerth, Erfurt 2006

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sächsische Zeitung of 29./30. November 2014
  2. ^ Sächsische Zeitung of 29./30. November 2014
  3. CVs: Jürgen Kerth , MDR , accessed July 15, 2019

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