Harri Stojka (born 22 July 1957 in

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) is a Viennese

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guitarist. He comes from the

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-Roma dynasty of the Bagareschtschi clan. In the 1980s he played in

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with the likes of Larry Coryell and

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. Nowadays he enjoys playing

Gypsy jazz Gypsy jazz (also known as gypsy swing, jazz manouche or hot club-style jazz) is a style of small-group jazz originating from the Romani guitarist Jean "Django" Reinhardt (1910–53), in conjunction with the French swing violinist Stéphane G ...

which is close to his roots. Stojka's cousin is jazz guitarist Karl Ratzer.

Discography

* ''Off the Bone'' (WEA, 1980) * ''Live at Montreux'' (WEA, 1981) * ''Camera'' (WEA, 1981) * ''Tight'' (WEA, 1982) * ''Brother to Brother'' (WEA, 1985) * ''Live'' (Spray 1987) * ''Say Yes'' (JMS, 1989) * ''Harri Stojka'' (Gipsy, 1996) * ''Kunst Im Grauen Haus 1998'' with

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(Rst, 1998) * ''Gitancoeur'' (2000) * ''Unplugged'' (2002) * ''Live at the Roma Wedding'' (2004) * ''A Tribute to Swing'' (2004) * ''Garude Apsa'' (2005) * ''98 86'' (Gipsy, 2005) * ''In Between'' (Pate, 2009) * ''Gitancoeur D'Europe'' (EmArcy/Universal, 2011) * ''India Express'' (Gipsy, 2012) * ''A Tribute to the Beatles'' (Lotus 2016) * ''Other Doors'' (Lotus, 2017) * ''Psycho Guitar'' (Gipsy, 2019)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stojka, Harri 1957 births Living people Austrian male musicians Gypsy jazz guitarists Swing guitarists Lovara Austrian Romani people Musicians from Vienna Romani musicians Male jazz musicians Romani-language singers