JUTTA HIPP
Genres: Bop, Hard Bop, Cool Jazz • Germany

Jutta Hipp (February 4, 1925 in Leipzig, Germany – April 7, 2003 in Queens) was a jazz pianist who also had some success as a painter. She mostly worked in bebop and cool jazz.   She first studied painting in Germany, but later played jazz during the war and she indicated jazz was important to her during that period. After the war she moved West due to the communist occupation of East Germany, and in West Germany she worked with Hans Koller for a time. In Germany she also led a quintet, Albert Mangelsdorff's brother Emil was one of the noteworthy members.     In 1954 she played with Attila Zoller. Critic Leonard Feather was impressed with her work when he heard her in Germany and soon after she moved to New York City where she would spend most of her life. She initially drew some criticism from critics who felt read more...