Joja Wendt

Joja Wendt (born Johan Wendt on July 31, 1964 in Hamburg ) is a German jazz pianist and composer .

Joja Wendt

Life

The son of a singer and a doctor from Hamburg began to play the piano at the age of four. Soon after graduating from high school at Lise-Meitner-Gymnasium in Hamburg-Osdorf , he decided to turn to jazz . He played regularly in the Hamburg music pub Sperl , where he was discovered by Joe Cocker . Cocker included Wendt as a pianist in the opening act of his Germany tour, which quickly made him famous.

Important stations were concerts with Chuck Berry , whose Germany tour he accompanied on the piano , or with the band Pur in the sold-out Arena Auf Schalke , and the film music for 7 dwarfs - men alone in the forest . After working in Hilversum in the Netherlands and studying in New York City , he returned to Hamburg, where he now lives in Groß Flottbek with his wife and two children . Together with Stefan Gwildis and Rolf Claussen , he has been the sons of Hamburg since 2011 . In addition to his passion for jazz, blues and boogie-woogie , early musical education is also important to him .

In addition to his music career, Joja Wendt plays table tennis for the first men's team of SG Grün-Weiß-Rot Nienstedten / TuS Osdorf in the Hamburg League, the highest division in Hamburg.

Awards

Wendt is the recipient of the Louis Armstrong Prize and has been accepted into the circle of Steinway artists by the traditional Steinway & Sons company .

Discography

Joja Wendt's dance with the grand piano

The albums released so far, in chronological order:

The Art Of Boogie-Woogie (1991)
Cookin '(1992)
Live (1993)
Fifty-Fifty (1994) (with Inga Rumpf )
Good Morning Blues (1995) (with Abi Wallenstein )
The Art Of Early Jazz Piano (1996)
In The 25th Hour (1996) (with Inga Rumpf)
Blues On Air (1997) (with Abi Wallenstein)
Live At Lloyds (1997) (with Inga Rumpf)
Pacifique (1997) (with Les McCann )
hummelflug.de (1998)
L'eglise (1999)
The pianist (2000)
Showtime (2002)
Live! ... very difficult to play (2003)
The Grand Piano (2005)
Around the world with 88 keys (2007)
Under the Sign of the Lyra (2011)
JOJA's piano music (2016)

Filmography

2004: 7 dwarfs - men alone in the forest
2005: Zibb
2006: Hermann & Tietjen
2006: 7 dwarfs - the forest is not enough
2007: Full pot
2007 - 2008: THAT!
2008: Happy Otto - We have reason to celebrate ...
2008: your song
2008: bet that ..?
2008: Joja Wendt - Around the world with 88 keys: Live
2008: an evening for ...
2009: NDR Talk Show
2013: Heinz Erhardt is cult! The great humorist and his legacy
2013: Krömer - Late Night Show
2013: Germany's super brain

Web links

Commons : Joja Wendt - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Joja Wendt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Works by and about Joja Wendt in the catalog of the German National Library
The official homepage

Individual evidence

↑ The Hamburger Morgenpost writes on May 6, 2005 under Great Key Fireworks : “ […] Laughter storms when Wendt quotes the joke poem of the capercaillie or with his long-time companions Thomas Biller and Christoph Buhse for a trip to the beginning of their careers on their knees goes to rock on the mini grand piano [...] in the highest falsetto [...] The man has the mischief on his neck - and on top of that in his fingers, as can be heard from his humorous balancing act between all styles. Jazz, blues, boogie, pop and classical music bead so lightly over the keys that even the crooked a cappella serenade at parting still seems like great art. "

↑ The Nordwest-Zeitung (February 11, 2005) speaks of the Guinness Show of Records - nobody plays the piano faster than Joja Wendt : When a video camera projects his fingers onto the screen at the Oldenburg concert, “the image blurs. Digital technology is not that fast yet. ”The remark quoted is typical of his humor: “ Man ”, he is amazed in the Weser-Ems-Halle,“ is it full here. I didn't even know that Oldenburg had so many residents. "

↑ The Bayerische Rundschau of March 31st calls him “virtuoso with lots of puns” and writes among other things: “ His virtuosity and class, paired with slapstick, lyrical talent and his rousing puns, characterized the concert [...] It's the good old boogie Woogie, that [...] contagious and happy mother of piano jazz, which Joja Wendt masters masterfully [...] The listener lets himself be carried away, and soon can't help but sing along to the beat. "

↑ "A match on the plate is like a fresh cell cure" , in Hamburger Abendblatt from June 2, 2017, accessed on August 7, 2019.

↑ Team line -ups of SG Grün-Weiß-Rot Nienstedten / TuS Osdorf at www.mytischtennis.de, accessed on August 7, 2019.

↑ He received the award in November 2000; see. http://www.boogie-online.de/musiker/boogie_musiker.php?artistID=jwendt

↑ The newspaper Rheinland 24 reports in its online edition on April 14, 2008 that he was accepted into the circle of Steinway & Sons artists in 2005. Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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@ 2

personal data
SURNAME	Wendt, Joja
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wendt, Johan (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German jazz pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	July 31, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg

[1] The Hamburger Morgenpost writes on May 6, 2005 under Great Key Fireworks : “ […] Laughter storms when Wendt quotes the joke poem of the capercaillie or with his long-time companions Thomas Biller and Christoph Buhse for a trip to the beginning of their careers on their knees goes to rock on the mini grand piano [...] in the highest falsetto [...] The man has the mischief on his neck - and on top of that in his fingers, as can be heard from his humorous balancing act between all styles. Jazz, blues, boogie, pop and classical music bead so lightly over the keys that even the crooked a cappella serenade at parting still seems like great art. "

[2] The Nordwest-Zeitung (February 11, 2005) speaks of the Guinness Show of Records - nobody plays the piano faster than Joja Wendt : When a video camera projects his fingers onto the screen at the Oldenburg concert, “the image blurs. Digital technology is not that fast yet. ”The remark quoted is typical of his humor: “ Man ”, he is amazed in the Weser-Ems-Halle,“ is it full here. I didn't even know that Oldenburg had so many residents. "

[3] The Bayerische Rundschau of March 31st calls him “virtuoso with lots of puns” and writes among other things: “ His virtuosity and class, paired with slapstick, lyrical talent and his rousing puns, characterized the concert [...] It's the good old boogie Woogie, that [...] contagious and happy mother of piano jazz, which Joja Wendt masters masterfully [...] The listener lets himself be carried away, and soon can't help but sing along to the beat. "

[4] "A match on the plate is like a fresh cell cure" , in Hamburger Abendblatt from June 2, 2017, accessed on August 7, 2019.

[5] Team line -ups of SG Grün-Weiß-Rot Nienstedten / TuS Osdorf at www.mytischtennis.de, accessed on August 7, 2019.

[6] He received the award in November 2000; see. http://www.boogie-online.de/musiker/boogie_musiker.php?artistID=jwendt

[7] The newspaper Rheinland 24 reports in its online edition on April 14, 2008 that he was accepted into the circle of Steinway & Sons artists in 2005. Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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@ 2