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Horst Lippmann (17 March 1927 in

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– 18 May 1997 in

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) was a German

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musician, concert promoter, writer and television director, best known as promoter of the influential

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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

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, and began bringing jazz, blues and

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stars to Germany for the first time. Between 1962 and 1982 he organized the American Folk Blues Festival, initially by contacting

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blues musician and songwriter Willie 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 as

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, Sonny Boy Williamson,

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, Lonnie Johnson, Big Joe Williams, John Lee Hooker,

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, and

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before European audiences for the first time. Attendees of early festivals included such influential musicians as

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, Eric Clapton, and Steve Winwood. Lippmann and Rau entered the

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in 2012. Blues Hall of Fame#2012 They also were the promoters in Germany for Jimi Hendrix in 1969. Lippmann was also known in Germany as a radio personality and as director of television broadcasts.

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Lippmann+Rau-Musikarchiv
(German) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lippmann, Horst 1927 births 1997 deaths German blues musicians Jazz writers German jazz drummers Male drummers German music journalists German music critics German music managers People from Eisenach German male non-fiction writers 20th-century German musicians 20th-century drummers 20th-century German male musicians German male jazz musicians

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