Harri Stojka
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Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
jazz guitarist
Jazz guitarist
Jazz guitarists are guitar players who play jazz music on the guitar using an approach to playing chords, melodies, and improvised solo lines which is called jazz guitar playing. The guitar has fulfilled the roles of accompanist and soloist in small and large ensembles and also as an unaccompanied...
. He comes from the diasporic Lovara-Roma dynasty of the Bagareschtschi clan.
In the 80s he played in Montreux
Montreux
Montreux is a municipality in the district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.It is located on Lake Geneva at the foot of the Alps and has a population, , of and nearly 90,000 in the agglomeration.- History :...
with the likes of Larry Coryell
Larry Coryell
Larry Coryell is an American jazz fusion guitarist.-Biography:Coryell was born in Galveston, Texas. He graduated from Richland High School, in Richland, Washington, where he played in local bands The Jailers, The Rumblers, The Royals, and The Flames. He also played with The Checkers from nearby...
and Birelli Lagrene.
Nowadays he enjoys playing Gypsy jazz
Gypsy jazz
Gypsy jazz is an idiom often said to have been started by guitarist Jean "Django" Reinhardt in the 1930s. Because its origins are largely in France it is often called by the French name, "Jazz manouche," or alternatively, "manouche jazz," even in English language sources...
which is close to his roots.
Discography
- 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 (CD - 1998)
- Harri Stojka / Say Yes , 1985
- Gon Shanel , 2000 (Geco Tonwaren)
- Gitancoeur , 2000 (Geco Tonwaren)
- Harri Stojka & Gitancoeur unplugged , 2002 (Geco Tonwaren])
- Live at the Roma Wedding , 2004 (Geco Tonwaren - Groove Attack)
- A Tribute To Swing , 2005 (Geco Tonwaren - Groove Attack)
- Gipsy Soul - Garude Apsa , 2005 ( Geco Tonwaren - Indigo)