Lutz Eikelmann

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Lutz Eikelmann (born April 7, 1967 in Hagen in Westphalia) is a German jazz musician.

Life

In his early youth, Eikelmann received piano lessons from the music teacher Elisabeth Schimpff. At the age of 14, his interest in jazz music came through skiffle recordings by British pop singer Lonnie Donegan and his jazz recordings with the bands of Ken Colyer and Chris Barber from the early 1950s .

Between 1982 and 1984 Lutz Eikelmann made music in various skiffle groups and from 1983 also worked regularly in male and youth choirs as a pianist and singer.

After high school graduation (1987) and Bundeswehr (1987/88), Eikelmann entered the jazz scene in 1989, in New Orleans he gained jam session experience with Chris Burke , Wendell Eugene , Ron Simmons and the Olympia Brass Band .

Back in Germany in 1989 he founded his first jazz group, the Bear County Jazz Band , the forerunner of the Dixie Slickers . His still existing jazz band Lutzemanns Jatzkapelle has existed since 1993 .

Lutz Eikelmann has worked as a freelance artist so far with a number of German amateur and professional bands and has collaborated as a band leader and producer of recordings and concerts with jazz musicians such as Engelbert Wrobel , William Garnett, Fitz Gore, Terry Lightfoot , Henning Langhage , Peter "Banjo" Meyer , Götz Alsmann , Hawe Schneider , Olivier Franc and Ian Wheeler , also with the British skiffle artists Dickie Bishop, Paul Leegan and Tony Donegan Junior.

As a professional musician, he now plays the drums , washboard , double bass and sousaphone .

Discography (selection)

  • Papa & the Baby Gang , 1990, Patmos-Verlag / Düsseldorf; with "Reiner Oeding & the Dixie Slickers" & Bruno Knust
  • Lutz Eikelmann & His Swinging New Orleans Music Dans les rues d´Antibes , 1996; with Olivier Franc
  • Lutzemann's Jatzparade , 1997; with Lutzemanns Jatzkapelle (LJK)
  • Herz im Takt, 1997; Lutzemann's Jatzkapelle.
  • Say It With Music , 1999; with Sonny Morris & Colin Bowden
  • Black Eyes , 2000, Guthoff Music; with Reiner Regel, Sean Moyses & Götz Alsmann
  • Dickie Bishop Meets Lutz Eikelmann: No Other Baby , 2001, Guthoff Music; with Sean Moyses & Dickie Bishop
  • The July Sessions , 2001, Guthoff Music; with Sonny Morris, Ian Wheeler, Ray Smith & Dickie Bishop
  • St. James In Germany , 2001, Guthoff Music; with Dixieland Crackerjacks (NL)
  • Sonny Morris & Friends in Germany with Lutz Eikelmann , 2002, Upbeat Recordings
  • Lutz Eikelmann presents the German jazz legend Hawe Schneider , 2002, Guthoff Music
  • 10 years Lutzemanns Jatzkapelle: For Collectors Only; 2003. Guthoff Music
  • Remembering Lonnie Donegan , 2004, Guthoff Music; with Paul Leegan, Tony Donegan Junior, Warren James, Dickie Bishop, 78 Twins, LJK, among others
  • 13 years Lutzemann's Jatzkapelle: Calling My Children Back Home , 2006, Guthoff Music
  • Lutzemanns Jatzkapelle: The Original , 2008, Guthoff Music
  • Swinging Germany , 2009, Moon Sound Records
  • All skiffle right? , 2011. Moon Sound Records
  • Key To The Highway, 2012. Midnight Train Skiffle Band.
  • Lutzemanns Jatzkapelle: Made in Germany 2013, Guthoff Music
  • Time travel , 2014, Guthoff Music
  • Bert Brandsma : Highlights; 2014 (NL).
  • Weekend and Sunshine , 2015, Guthoff Music

Fonts

  • Lutzemann's Jatzkapelle - everyday life & adventure of a "German jazz band". Pro Business, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86805-239-8 .
  • Encounters - how jazz won our hearts (editors: Klaus Neumeister & Lutz Eikelmann). Sonrrie Verlag, Bad Bramstedt 2011, ISBN 978-3936968194 .
  • Heribert's time travel - * jazz * agents * time travelers * future seers'. Pro Business, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86460-698-4

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personal data
SURNAME Eikelmann, Lutz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen , Westphalia