Lindy Huppertsberg

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Lindy Huppertsberg at the St. Ingbert Jazz Festival 2013

Lindy Huppertsberg (born January 11, 1956 in Cologne ) is a German jazz musician ( double bass player and band leader).

Live and act

After childhood with recorder, accordion and piano lessons, the father (ballet master and dance teacher) trained as a banker. Through her husband at the time, Agi Huppertsberg , the pianist of the Barrelhouse Jazzband , a deep love for jazz quickly developed. When the Barrelhouse Jazzband was looking for a roadie in 1979, they took over this job, initially with a self-taught crash course on the bass. In 1980 she became the “full bass player” of the band in which she worked until 1989. School music studies in Mainz took place parallel to the intensive concert tours with the band. In 1985 she completed her studies with the state examination and has been working as a freelance musician ever since.

In 1989 she founded her first band Lady Bass & The Real Gone Guys with Dirk Raufeisen (p), Tommie Harris (dr, voc) and Ron Ringwood (voc). Her teacher Ray Brown gave her the musician name "Lady Bass" . From 1987 to 2000, together with Ron Ringwood, she organized the International Jazz Festival At Sea once a year , a week-long cruise on the Mediterranean with 50 international musicians, around 700 jazz fans and 120 concerts on five stages. Through joint appearances with US musicians such as Harry Sweets Edison , Clark Terry , Benny Golson and Roy Hargrove , the women's mainstream band , The Swinging Ladies - a quintet with American musicians - was formed in 1994 and established itself through tours and recordings in Europe.

In 2002 the band WitchCraft emerged, until 2006 with Anke Helfrich (p), Carola Gray (dr) and the guest soloists Stacy Rowles (tp, flugelhorn, voc, daughter of Jimmy Rowles ) and Carolyn Breuer (sax). The current line-up includes Yelena Jurayeva (p) and Angela Frontera (dr, perc). She also worked with Thilo Wagner , with Vano Bamberger and with the women's blues rock band "Sally Moon & Sagitta". Since 2010 she has been touring with Charly Antolini Meets the Jazz Ladies , who also include singer Nina Michelle and saxophonist Stephanie Lottermoser ; with this formation two albums were created. For several years now, her main activity has been the bassist of the Barrelhouse Jazzband again.

Huppertsberg has lived in Frankenthal since 2004 with the jazz bassist Johannes Schaedlich . In 2001 she received honorary citizenship of the city of New Orleans.

Discographic notes

  • Lady Be Good (Lady Bass & The Real Gone Guys) 1991
  • Swingin 'Sweets (Harry Sweets Edison Quintet) 1992
  • Take One (The Swinging Ladies) 1995
  • WitchCraft Live (WitchCraft with A. Helfrich, C. Gray, S. Rowles, C. Breuer) 2004
  • Three To Get Ready (Centerpiece) 2009
  • 3 | 3 | 3 (WitchCraft with Y. Jurayeva and A. Frontera) 2012

literature

  • Andreas Obst From Lotto Bass to Lady Bass: Lindy Huppertsberg , in: Wolfgang Sander , Jazz in Frankfurt. Societäts-Verlag: Frankfurt am Main 1990, pp. 93–96 (with discography)

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personal data
SURNAME Huppertsberg, Lindy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne