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Joja Wendt (born 31 July 1964 as Johan Wendt) is a German jazz pianist and composer.
Wendt was born in Hamburg. The son of a female singer and a doctor, he began playing the piano at the age of four. He decided soon after leaving school at the Lise-Meitner-Gymnasium in Osdorf, Hamburg to turn to jazz. He then played regularly in the Hamburg music pub Sperl, where he was discovered by Joe Cocker. Cocker took Wendt as the opening act of his tour of Germany, so he became known quickly throughout the country. [1] [2] [3]
Important stations were concerts with Chuck Berry, whose Germany tour he accompanied on the piano, or with the band Pur in the sold-out Arena Auf Schalke, and the soundtrack to 7 Zwerge – Männer allein im Wald . After working in the Dutch town of Hilversum and studying in New York City, he returned to Hamburg, where he now lives with his wife and two children in Groß Flottbek. In addition to his passion for jazz, blues and boogie-woogie, he also cares about early musical education of children.
Wendt was awarded a Louis Armstrong student award [4] and has been included in the circle of Steinway artists by Steinway & Sons. [5]
Jump blues is an up-tempo style of blues, jazz, and boogie woogie usually played by small groups and featuring horn instruments. It was popular in the 1940s and was a precursor of rhythm and blues and rock and roll. Appreciation of jump blues was renewed in the 1990s as part of the swing revival.
Harry "The Hipster" Gibson, born Harry Raab, was an American jazz pianist, singer, and songwriter. He played New York style stride piano and boogie woogie while singing in a wild, unrestrained style. His music career began in the late 1920s, when, under his real name, he played stride piano in Dixieland jazz bands in Harlem. He continued to perform there throughout the 1930s, adding the barrelhouse boogie of the time to his repertoire.
Albert Clifton Ammons was an American pianist and player of boogie-woogie, a blues style popular from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s.
Kermit Holden "Pete" Johnson was an American boogie-woogie and jazz pianist.
Otto Gerhard Waalkes, also known as simply Otto, is a German comedian, actor, musician, writer and comic book artist. He became famous in the 1970s and 1980s in Germany with his shows, books and films. His best known trademark are the 'Ottifanten' ('Ottiphants'), elephant-like comic characters of his own design. They featured on the cover of his first album release.
Jasmin Wagner, better known as Blümchen, is a German pop and dance music singer. Although she releases her English albums under the name Blossom, her German stage name Blümchen actually translates to "floret" or "small flower".
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Axel Zwingenberger is a German blues and boogie-woogie pianist and songwriter.
Martin Schneider, often just called "Maddin", is a German comedian, cabaret artist and actor.
Hans Werner Olm is a German television and film comedian.
Erwin Helfer is an American boogie-woogie, blues and jazz pianist. Helfer is a Chicago boogie-woogie and jazz innovator, performer, and educator.
Vince Weber was a German blues and boogie-woogie pianist.
This is the discography of Sido, a German rapper from Berlin.
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Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne is an American blues, boogie-woogie and jazz pianist, singer and songwriter. Music journalist, Jeff Johnson, writing in the Chicago Sun-Times stated, "There's no boogie-woogie-blues piano man out there today who pounds the 88's with the conviction of Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne."
Caroline Dahl is an American pianist and composer of boogie woogie and American roots music.
Dirk Bielefeldt is a German actor and cabaret artist, particularly famous for his role of the policeman, Herr Holm.
7 Dwarves: The Forest Is Not Enough is a 2006 German comedy film directed by Sven Unterwaldt. It is a sequel to the film 7 Zwerge – Männer allein im Wald. The film is based on the fairy tale "Rumpelstiltskin" and characters from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". Its title is a pun on "Die Welt ist nicht genug", the German title of the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough.
Ralf Schmitz is a German comedian and actor.
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