Ray Austin (musician)

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Raymond Hugh Austin (born February 17, 1943 in Thorne , Great Britain) is a British-German musician (guitar, trumpet, vocals, harmonica).

The English jazz -, folk - and blues musician grew up as the son of a teacher in Halifax in the county of Yorkshire on. After completing his training, he worked as a caramel representative at Jon's Toffee , after which he served in the British Army . After attending McMillan College of Education , he taught English and art at an English school. In 1970 he came to Freiburg im Breisgau and received there at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universitya teaching position for "Modern English", but since 1973 has only devoted himself to music. From 1972 to 1977 he went on tour as a musician. After his marriage in 1978, he and his wife ran the music and cabaret “Halifax” in Gottenheim in Baden until 1980 . From 1981 he hosted the program Music-Hall for several years at Südwestfunk . In 1985 he was one of the founding members of the Freiburger Jazzhaus e. V. Since 1999 he has been the musical director of the Wodan Hall in Freiburg, of which he was co-founder in 1998.

Since the age of 27, Ray Austin has dedicated himself to music as a solo artist, in bands, as an organizer of smaller music festivals and as the founder of folk & blues clubs all over Germany (e.g. in Freiburg).

He leads the Dixieland bands Royal Garden Five and Original Hallelujah Stompers and the country / folk / blues group Ray Austin & Friends.

Discography

  • 1973 You & I in Words (with Klaus Weiland, among others )
  • 1975 For a while
  • 1976 New Horizons
  • 1980 Halifax
  • 1982 Elevenses
  • 1987 Live in Freiburg - with the Original Hallelujah Stompers
  • 1993 Still Stompin ' - with the Original Hallelujah Stompers
  • 1998 Muskrat Ramble - with Royal Garden Five
  • 1999 Thin Times - with Fat Chance
  • 2000 Riverboat - with Royal Garden Five
  • 2001 Makin 'Whoopee - with the Original Hallelujah Stompers
  • 2005 Live in Leiselheim - with the Original Hallelujah Stompers
  • 2007 No Other Way - Ray Austin & Friends
  • 2010 As Time Goes By - with the Original Hallelujah Stompers
  • 2018 A Piece of Heaven - Ray Austin & Friends

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ray Austin - Biography
  2. ↑ Wodan: today, tomorrow and yesterday on wodan-halle-freiburg.de
personal data
SURNAME Austin, Ray
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Austin, Raymond Hugh (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British musician
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Thorne , UK