She had been active as a professional pianist in her native Germany from 1946 on, was a member of the Hans Koller Quartet in the early 1950s and from 1954-55 led her own combo, The Jutta Hipp Quintet.
Last week I posted on German pianist Jutta Hipp, who recorded in the 1950s before disappearing from the jazz scene. I also mentioned that Katja von Schuttenbach—a jazz historian and journalist —had ...
Jutta Hipp, 78, a German-born jazz pianist who cut short her musical career to become a dressmaker, died Monday at her home in the Queens section of New York City. The cause of death was not reported.
In 1979, a musician put out a call in a magazine. Did anyone know where the German jazz pianist of the 1950s had gone? By Phil Hebblethwaite In October 1979, the British-born jazz pianist Marian ...
The Jazzhaus album, The German Recordings 1952-1955 features music, both live and studio recording, broadcast over four different sessions with a varied cast of collaborating musicians. It is a ...
Reissues are the bread and butter of the jazz record business, but the artists whose talents made the records possible often miss out on the royalties that could help sustain them in old age. Singer ...
Jutta Hipp, a German-born jazz pianist who cut short her musical career to become a dressmaker, died April 7 at her home in Queens, New York. She was 78. Leipzig native began playing piano at 9. When ...
Jutta Hipp, a jazz pianist from Germany who had a short, celebrated career in the 1950s playing in New York nightclubs and making records for the Blue Note label, then turned her back on jazz to ...
Jutta Hipp, who has died in New York aged 78, enjoyed a brief period as a promising jazz pianist for whom a great future was predicted, until nervousness and self-effacement caused her to abandon ...
Jutta Hipp, jazz pianist: born Leipzig, Germany 4 February 1925; died New York 7 April 2003. In jazz there isn't much room for self-effacement. Jutta Hipp proved that over a professional life that ...