Nipso Brantner

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Nipso Brantner (born September 11, 1935 in Villach ; † 2003 in Munich ) was an Austrian violinist who excelled in the country genre as well as in jazz .

Act

Brantner, who initially attempted a career as a dancer, played with Jim Carter's Texas Rangers in the late 1950s . Then he presented several singles as Nipso . In 1966 he founded his "Swinging Cowboys" with the steel guitar player Frank Baum , with whom he released the album The Great Western Show. Engagements with Hazy Osterwald and Jim Briscoe followed . In 1971 Joachim Ernst Berendt invited Brantner to a "summit" of contemporary jazz violinists at the Berlin Jazz Days . Then he was active with the Hot Club Munich . In 1979 he was invited to record a Gypsy Jazz Violin Summit with Schmitto Kling , Zipflo Reinhardt and Hannes Beckmann . In 1978 he founded the group Train with Frank Baum, which recorded a single in 1980. He can also be heard on the album Sekt or Selters by Marius Müller-Westernhagen .

Discographic notes

  • Nipso Brantner & the Swinging Cowboys The Great Western Show (Fass 1969, with Frank Baum, Chuck Herrmann, Willie Haunschild, Laczo Brantner)
  • Electric Gipsy ( Liberty 1971)
  • Nipso Brantner & The Hot Club Munich ( Carousel 1972)
  • Nipso Brantner & The Hot Club Munich: Swinging Violin (BASF 1974)
  • Hannes Beckmann, Nipso Brantner, Schmitto Kling, Zipflo Reinhardt The Gipsy Jazz Violin Summit (MPS 1979, with Otto Weiß , Gary Todd , Charly Antolini )
  • Czigan Love Songs (2006)

Lexical entry

  • Bear Family Lexicon

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Country Green
  2. ↑ a b c d Nipso Brantner & the Swinging Cowboys
  3. ↑ Published as New Violin Summit on MPS 1972, with Jean-Luc Ponty , Michal Urbaniak , Don Sugarcane Harris , Terje Rypdal , Wolfgang Dauner , Neville Whitehead , Robert Wyatt
  4. ↑ Later under the title Gypsy Swing (see Gypsy Swing at Allmusic )
personal data
SURNAME Brantner, Nipso
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian violinist
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Villach
DATE OF DEATH 2003
Place of death Munich