Rick Abao

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Rick Abao (born February 9, 1939 in New Orleans , † October 5, 2002 in Bad Bergzabern ) was an American jazz musician , composer and entertainer .

Life

His mother Dolores was American and her parents were from Ireland and France. His father Tito Abao sen. was a Filipino sailor and cook. The family includes the two years older brother Tito Abao junior. Growing up in San Francisco, he graduated from high school . He also completed his first music degree in San Francisco. In 1963, Abao received a scholarship to study at the Segovia School in California. This school existed in different cities. He studied classical guitar at the school in Alicante for the next four years. His personal teacher was José Tomás. Andrés Segovia himself visited all of his students in order to keep track and control. In the meantime Abao also attended school in Madrid.

At the end of the 1950s Abao did his military service in the US Army as a paratrooper in Germany. In 1967 Abao returned to Germany to visit friends in Cologne . He lived there until 1977. In 1968 he took part in the International Essen Song Festival, and in 1976 at the first Herten World Music Festival “Folk im Schloßpark”. He later moderated this annual event until the end of his life.

From 1977 to 1988 Abao was involved in Essen for young people, mainly young people with a migration background. In the youth center in Essen he founded a Karambolagebillard -Jugendmannschaft, which he successfully led to youth champion. Abao himself played in a club in Velbert .

In 1979 Abao married Ritva Först in Tønder , Denmark . They met in 1968 at the Essen Song Days and had been in a relationship since 1972. Ritva Abao was born in Helsinki , Finland . Today she is a naturopathic psychotherapist, translator and specialist book author. She worked for many years at SWR Baden-Baden, at that time still SWF in the FS drama department as an assistant. Ritva and Rick Abao have no children together; Ritva has a daughter from their first marriage.

From 1989 to 2002 in Gernsbach he devoted himself to music and his two hobbies, billiards and chess. He played billiards in a Rastatt club and took part in state championships. He played chess in a "celebrity game" against Anatoly Karpov .

In 1996, Abao suffered a stroke with right-sided paralysis. Just six months later, while sitting in a wheelchair, he was again moderating the international Herten world music festival "Folk im Schloßpark". After about a year and a half, he could not only walk again with the help of a stick, but also play the guitar well again.

In 2002 the 26th International World Music Festival took place in Herten (Herten World Music Festival “Folk im Schloßpark”), Abao was there from the beginning and in 21 years also the main attraction of the festival. After his death, the festival took place only once.

Abao's music

Abao's music cannot be clearly defined. It combines folk, blues, jazz, classical guitar and musical parodies. He was a musician, singer, composer and songwriter . He was able to read the most difficult guitar literature e.g. B. by Isaac Albéniz , Francisco Tárrega or Manuel de Falla to play. He often amazed his audience at folk festivals. His repertoire also included beatboxing at a time when it did not exist under this name. Throughout his life, Rick Abao was of the opinion that (musical) art should be free from any limitation, including categorization. He always refused to be "categorized". He has composed many of his own songs and written the lyrics together with his British friend John McNicholas. Abao had a fondness for the German language as well as for old German songs.

Collaboration with other musicians

Abao worked on various projects with musicians such as Thomas Hufschmidt , Fritz Krisse and Jan Reimer in guitar music and Mohammad Tahmasebi on the Persian Dombak . Rick Abao's students include Peter Fessler , who was discovered by Abao in 1971 at the age of 12. Abao trained this boy from the ground up, who would later become known as an excellent jazz musician and singer. Fessler calls Abao his "Musical Daddy". Also André Tolba began in 1985 also at the age of 12 years to study with Abao.

Discography

Solo albums

  • 1968: Hush (LP: Da Camera SM 95009)
  • 1970: On Time (LP: Da Camera SM 95024, live recording, title on label: Rick Abao Life [sic!])
  • 1974: I've Got It Now (LP: Songbird C 062-31 121)
  • 1975: Himmelsreport (Bones, Bones, Bones) // The foreign song (Si: Songbird C 062-31 134)
  • 1978: The hunter from Churpfalz (LP: Eulenspiegel EULP1014)
  • 1982: A singing world is a happy world - folk songs part 1 (LP: Aurophon AU-11100)
  • 1983: The hunter from Churpfalz // Questions in the forest (Maxi-Si: Extra 66 20 259)
  • 1983: Rick Abao (LP: APM 1883)
  • 198 ?: Life on the Autobahn // Vote for me today (Si: APM 3584)
  • 1989: It's Abao 'Time (LP: Merkton 19 / CD: Merkton MCD005)
  • 1995: Struwwelpeter (CD)
  • 1995: Memories of Moments (CD)
  • 1998: Interpretations by Rick Abao (CD)
  • 2000: The techno hunter from Churpfalz (CD)
  • 2001: The Art Of Jazz S (w) inging (CD)
  • 2006: Riding the Sun (CD)

Contributions

  • 1974 (about): The studio board of Südwestfunk Baden-Baden (sampler LP / gift record from SWF), as Rick Abao Trio
  • 1976: Bob's Stage - Jubilee 76 (Sampler-LP / private pressing: BS001)
  • 1978: The people from Annostraße (Sampler-LP: Plans DK 0099)
  • 1978: Folktreff [19] 77
  • 1987: Spott- (High) -Lights (Sampler-LP: ZYX / Merkton)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary
  2. ↑ Detlev Mahnert / Harry Stürmer: Zappa, Zoff and nuances. The international Essener Songtage 1968. Klartext Verlagsgesellschaft, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-936-3 , pp. 172ff.
  3. ^ Press service for the Herten World Music Festival
  4. ↑ Former homepage of the Herten world music festival “Folk im Schloßpark” ( memento of the original from July 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.weltkulturfestival.de
  5. ↑ CD: "Memories of Moments" 2nd track: "Basin Steet Blues" from 2:07
  6. ↑ http://www.castano-flamenco.com/bettina-castano/musiker/m-tahmasebi-dombac/
  7. ^ Vita of André Tolba
personal data
SURNAME Abao, Rick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician, composer and entertainer
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH New Orleans
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 2002
Place of death Bad Bergzabern