- Horst Lippmann
Horst Lippmann (born May 17, 1927 in
Eisenach ,Germany - died May 18, 1997 inFrankfurt am Main ) was a Germanjazz musician, concert promoter, writer and television director, best known as promoter of the influentialAmerican Folk Blues Festival tours of Europe during and after the 1960s.Life
The son of a hotelier, Lippmann played drums in the illegal Frankfurter Hot Club in the 1940s, and wrote for one of the first German jazz magazines, "Mitteilungen für Freunde der modernen Tanzmusik" (Messages for Friends of Modern Dance Music). After the war he played in the combos of the Hot Club with Günter Boaz. Together with Olaf Hudtwalcker, he was involved in the founding of the German Jazz Federation, and organized and participated in concert tours by the West German jazz clubs. In 1953 he founded the German Jazz Festival at Frankfurt.
In the mid-1950s he formed the "Lippmann + Rau" concert agency with
Fritz Rau [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Rau] , and began bringing jazz,blues androck and roll stars to Germany for the first time. Between 1962 and 1982 he organized the American Folk Blues Festival, initially by contactingChicago blues musician and songwriterWillie Dixon . The festivals were arranged almost annually during the 1960s, performing in England and France as well as Germany and being recorded for television programmes, and brought such musicians asMuddy Waters ,Sonny Boy Williamson ,Howlin' Wolf ,Lonnie Johnson ,Big Joe Williams ,John Lee Hooker ,Skip James ,Little Walter ,Buddy Guy , andMemphis Slim before European audiences for the first time. Attendees of early festivals included such influential musicians asMick Jagger ,Eric Burdon ,Eric Clapton , andSteve Winwood .Lippmann was also known in Germany as a radio personality and as director of television broadcasts.
External links
* [http://www.moviemail-online.co.uk/scripts/media_view.pl?id=309&type=Articles Artcle on the American Folk Blues Festival]
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