Harri Stojka

Harri Stojka ( born July 22, 1957 in Vienna) is an Austrian guitarist, composer, arranger, bandleader and singer, who is regarded as one of the most important Austrian jazz musicians of our time. " Harri " comes from the Lovara Roma dynasty from the tribe of Bagareschtschi and is one of the most famous Roma in Austria. His world music influenced music style is also called " Gipsy Soul". He also plays with success also swing -oriented music. Furthermore, it is Harri Stojka at the Vienna Gipsy Music School and the Vienna Music Institute (VMI ), a Viennese private conservatory, a lecturer.

Life

The Austrian jazz guitarist Harri Stojka began his career in 1970 with the formation Jano Harri Stojka in the arena. Soon after, the young autodidact rose as a bass player in the band of Karl Ratzer Gipsy Love, and distinguished himself as a guitarist for Peter Wolf's " objective Truth Orchestra". In 1973 he founded the " Harri Stojka Express", which occurred only Austrian group next Jimmi Cliff, Eric Burdon, Van Morrison and Carlos Santana at the Open Air Festival in Vienna's Prater Stadium. It was followed by an invitation to the legendary Montreux Jazz Festival, where Harri Stojka next to Larry Coryell at the " Guitar Summit" played. This appearance before a highly experienced specialist audience, where he also fellow musicians paid tribute to the world-class recognition, Harri was the breakthrough. The LP "Live at Montreux " provides an intimate witness to the beginning of this impressive international career.

Since then, Harri Stojka became one of the most important Austrian jazz musicians. Subsequent invitations to jazz festivals as a headliner: Paris, Anger, Prague, London, Barcelona, ​​New Delhi, New York, Syracuse, Montreux, Detroit, Kahmoro Festival, Sziget Festival Budapest, the famous Django Reinhardt Memorial Festival in Augsburg, Graz Jazz Festival, the Jazz Festival in Jakarta and in Yogyakarta. With the band to Harri Stojka was heard for the first time European jazz in China and India. In all his travels, he has his enthusiastic audience out to be of Austrian Roma, and contributes to the fact that Austria is gaining a lot of sympathy abroad. The CD production: "A Tribute to Swing" in 2005 then also published simultaneously in Austria and in Germany, where she was nominated by renowned jazz experts within just one week for the German Music Critics' Award. 2006 has been reissued at ZOHO Music in New York recording. With this project, the formation around Harri Stojka gave two concerts at the Jazz Festival in Detroit when, inter alia, Richie Havens occurred.

The Vienna Harri Stojka comes from a Lovara Roma dynasty, which came 150 years ago from Wallachia and settled in Vienna to live and work. The family had to complain many casualties in World War II - 200 relatives survived only a few family members, the concentration camps and the infamous death march. Again and again committed to Harri Stojka in projects that are dedicated to the memory and the processing of this time. So will the resulting 2005 CD " Garude Apsa " / "Hidden Tears " remember the musical roots of the Roma in order to give the present generation pride and courage for the future. In a Europe that is increasingly politically committed to the Roma culture, Harri Stojka has called the action "I am against the word Gypsy and Roma for the word " to life, causing the public and international interest.

Harri Stojka has achieved something that many wish - to create his own style of guitar playing and to be recognizable after just a few notes in the solos as Harri Stojka. What Harri Stojkas guitar playing is makes his virtuosity paired with blues feeling, the special drive, the phrasing and the sound of his gypsy jazz acoustic guitar. It is available in many styles of music at home, from pop to avant-garde jazz, gypsy swing to bebop, from hard rock to heavy metal. With this versatility, and with the permanent further development of his music Harri Stojka has influenced many Austrian guitarist and is committed to young musicians. He is not thinking of the Austrian music history away and already a legend, in all this but a modest and likeable person.

2005 Harri Stojkas CD "A Tribute to Swing" was nominated in Germany for the Echo award - for best CD production from abroad. 2011, the film " Gypsy Spirit Harri Stojka the trip" was a musical journey through India in search of his Roma roots awarded a Romy: for best feature documentary in Austria.

Awards

On October 30, 2013 he was awarded the Golden Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria.

Albums

  • Harri Stojka Express - Sweet Vienna ( 1978)
  • Harri Stojka Express - Off The Bone ( 1980)
  • Harri Stojka - Live In Montreux (1981 )
  • Harri Stojka Express - Camera ( 1981)
  • Harri Stojka Express - Tight (1982 )
  • Harri Stojka Express - Brother To Brother ( 1985)
  • Harri Stojka Express - Live ( 1987)
  • Harri Stojka - Say Yes (1988 )
  • Harri Stojka - Music For The People (1996 )
  • Harri Stojka Gitancœur - Gitancœur (2000)
  • Harri Stojka Gitancœur - Gon Shanel ( CD Maxi ) (2000 )
  • Harri Stojka Gitancœur - Unplugged (2002)
  • Harri Stojka - A Tribute To Swing ( 2004)
  • Harri Stojka Gipsy Soul - Garude Apsa ( Hidden Tears ) (2005 )
  • Harri Stojka - A Tribute To Gypsy Swing (. ZOHO REC ) (2006 )
  • Stoika & Stojka - Just Another City (2008)
  • Mosa Sisic & Harri Stojka - In Between (2009)
  • Harri Stojka - Romano Suno / Gipsy Dream ( Weihnochtszeit / Christmas Time ) (2010 )
  • Harri Stojka Gitancœur - Gitancœur d'Europe (2011)
  • Harri Stojka India Express - India Express (2012 )
  • Wolfgang Böck & Harri Stojka - Satire & Jazz ( 2013)

Movies

  • Gypsy Spirit. Harri Stojka. A journey. Director: Klaus Hundsbichler, Austria / India 2010, 91 min
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