Jimmy Reiter

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Jimmy Reiter band
General information
Genre (s) Blues , Rhythm & Blues
founding 2011
Website http://www.jimmyreiter.de
Current occupation
Guitar / vocals
 Christoph "Jimmy" rider
Keyboards
 Nico Dreier
bass
 Jasper Mortier
Drums
 Björn Puls

Christoph "Jimmy" Reiter (born November 10, 1975 in Hanover ) is a German blues musician .

Live and act

Reiter has lived in Osnabrück since he was a child , where he learned classical guitar at the conservatory from the age of ten. As a teenager he switched to the electric guitar and took lessons from Todor Todorovic of the Blues Company . Since the early 1990s he has been a regular guest at the weekly Blue Monday session , which initially took place in the trendy Pink Piano pub . Here Reiter got to know musicians like Angela Brown , Christian Rannenberg and Keith Dunn, who soon hired him as a guitarist for their own performances. Also at the Pink Piano in 1999 Reiter made the acquaintance of Washington singer and blues harp player Doug Jay , whose band Doug Jay & the Blue Jays he joined the following year. In the following ten years the band toured Europe extensively and recorded two albums for the Bremen label CrossCut Records .

From 2008, Reiter held the job of guitarist for the Bluesnight Band for several years , which accompanied international artists such as Larry Garner , Darrell Nulish , Sydney Youngblood and Ron Williams during their performances in Germany. In 2011 Reiter released his solo debut High Priest of Nothing , which was recorded with musical companions from different bands. The album was included in the PdSK leaderboard in the fourth quarter of 2011 . From the studio cast of High Priest of Nothing , the crystallized Jimmy Reiter strip out the 2015 album Told You So grossed. In a review by the specialist magazine bluesnews it was said that it was “a multi-faceted blues album that unites a clear orientation towards genre traditions with a fresh sound costume to create a coherent whole”.

In March 2016, Jimmy Reiter received the BiG Blues Award for the best contemporary blues artist of 2015. In July 2017 the Jimmy Reiter Band won the German Blues Award as the best German blues band.

In addition to appearing with his own band, Reiter is often on stage as a guitarist with other artists such as Albie Donnelly , Dede Priest and Memo Gonzalez and is hired for studio recordings, including Big Daddy Wilson , Chad Strentz and Dede Priest. As a guitarist, he also made some contributions to the studio albums of Osnabrück entertainer Christian Steiffen .

TrueFire, an American online platform for guitar lessons, published Reiters first instructional video in 2016 with Jimmy Reiter's Soul Guitar Guidebook . A second part followed in 2018, Jimmy Reiter's Soul Guitar Guidebook Vol. 2 .

Discography

  • 2011 High Priest of Nothing (Pogo Pop Muzik) - Best List 4/2011 of the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik e. V.
  • 2015 Told You So (Pogo Pop Muzik)
  • 2016 Soul Guitar Guidebook (TrueFire, instructional DVD)
  • 2018 Soul Guitar Guidebook, Volume 2 (TrueFire, instructional DVD)
  • 2019 What You Need (Pogo Pop Muzik)

With other artists (selection)

  • 1996 The Pink Piano Allstars - Fool's Paradise (Happy Valley Records)
  • 1997 Tom Vieth - I'm Gonna Carry On And Sing The Blues (Out Of Space Records)
  • 2000 Tommy Schneller Extravaganza - Blues For The Ladies (Out Of Space Records)
  • 2002 Big Bones - So Low (Bon-A-Fide Blues)
  • 2003 The Pink Piano Allstars - Blues Monday Jam Anniversary Night (Pogo Pop Muzik)
  • 2005 Doug Jay & the Blue Jays - Jackpot! ( CrossCut Records )
  • 2006 Los Reyes Del KO - Hot Tin Roof (Hotsak)
  • 2007 Doug Jay & the Blue Jays - Under the Radar (CrossCut Records)
  • 2009 Keith Dunn - Keith Dunn Collection (DeeTone Records)
  • 2009 Big Daddy Wilson - Love Is the Key ( Ruf Records )
  • 2010 Tom Vieth - G-Town Girls (Groove Stew Records)
  • 2013 Tom Vieth - Playground Blues Jam (Groove Stew Records)
  • 2013 Christian Rannenberg ua - The Walter Davis Project (Electro-Fi Records)
  • 2014 Kai Strauss - Electric Blues (Continental Records Services)
  • 2014 Chad Strentz - Shake-Down (TreeHouse44)
  • 2016 The Pink Piano Allstars - 30 Years Blue Monday Blues Jam (Pogo Pop Muzik)

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  1. ↑ "Jimmy Reiter: About the Blues and a Little Green Man"; bluesnews 83 (October 2015) ISSN  0948-5643
  2. ↑ http://www.crosscut.de/artists/doug-jay-andamp-the-blue-jays/
  3. ↑ http://www.schallplattenkritik.de/bestenlisten/496-bestenliste-4-2011
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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.bluesnews.de
  5. ↑ BiG Blues Award 2015 - Contemporary (result) - Blues in Germany. (No longer available online.) In: Blues in Germany. Archived from the original on March 24, 2016 ; accessed on August 10, 2019 .
  6. ↑ 2017 winners and winners. Accessed August 10, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Soul Guitar Guidebook - Jimmy Reiter - TrueFire. Retrieved July 4, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Soul Guitar Guidebook Vol. 2 - Guitar Lessons - Jimmy Reiter - TrueFire. Retrieved January 29, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Rider, Jimmy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reiter, Christoph (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German blues musician
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover