Jutta Hipp

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Jutta Hipp (1925 – April 7, 2003) was a jazz pianist and composer.

Born in Leipzig, Weimar Republic, she first listened to jazz in secrecy because it was not yet allowed by the Nazi authorities.

She became a refugee after surviving World War II, often lacking food and other essentials.

She was a touring pianist and soon led her own bands by the 1950s.

Leonard Feather, a critic, heard Hipp perform in Germany in 1954, recorded her, and orchestrated her transfer to the United States the following year.

As did album launches, club and festival appearances came soon. Hipp's last recording was in 1956; she began working in a clothes factory and then departed from the music industry for reasons that are unclear.

She lived in the United States and spent 35 years with the clothing chain.

Early life

Hipp was born in Leipzig, Weimar Republic, on February 4, 1925. Her family was from the middle class, with a Protestant roots. She began playing the piano at the age of nine and then studied painting in Germany. Jazz was disapproved of by the Nazi regime, but Hipp listened to it during "clandestine gatherings in friends' homes and [...] during bombing raids. She hunkered down in front of the radio drama on banned radio stations rather than joining her parents and brother in the basement shelter. She studied at the Leipzig Academy of Graphic Arts before emigrant to Germany's western zones in 1946 after Russia occupied Leipzig.

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Career

"She became a homeless person and suffered from hunger and lacked the most basic requirements during the war," Marc Myers for Jazz Wax wrote. In 1948, Lionel Hampton was born after Lionel Hampton. He was fathered by an African-American GI. Lionel's father is unknown because African-American GIs did not recognise paternity to white people at that time. Hipp soon gave up her son for adoption.

Hipp worked with saxophonist Hans Koller from 1951, traveling in Germany and other countries. In 1952, the two bands met together. Emil Mangelsdorff, a sister of Albert Mangelsdorff, was also a member of the group in Germany, and she was also responsible for a quintet between 1953 and 1955; Albert Mangelsdorff's brother Emil was also a member of the association. Hipp performed with Attila Zoller in 1954. Critic Leonard Feather heard Hipp in Germany in January, three years after being sent a video of her playing by one of her friends. He booked a recording session in April for her; the resulting album was released two years later. Hipp performed at the Deutsches Jazzfestival in Frankfurt later in 1954.

Hipp immigrated to the United States in 1955, where she spent the remainder of her life. Feather obtained a visa for Hipp and discovered a career as a pianist at the Hickory House Club in New York. She lived in March 1956 for six months. Feather's assistance with the Newport Jazz Festival in the same year and recorded for the Blue Note label; the label also released two LPs recorded at the Hickory House in April 1956. Zoot Sims' album was her last work.

In the Daily Telegraph's obituary, drummer Art Blakey begged her to perform with his band one night at the Café Bohemia, but she refused, saying she was inebriated, and otherwise did not think she was strong enough. Blakey pulled her to the piano and began playing at a high speed she could not cope with. "Now you see why we don't want these Europeans coming over here and taking our jobs," Blakey explained to the audience.'

"Hipp suffered with severe stage fright throughout her career and drowned her fears with excessive alcohol and life-long chain smoking." She may have viewed playing the piano as a way to make money in tumultuous postwar situations rather than as an artistic pursuit. Hipp may have opted for a more stable career as it became more difficult to be a jazz musician. She worked in a clothing factory and continued to play on weekends, but she began working with a Wallachs clothing chain in 1960, where she stayed for 35 years. According to some, she was a seamstress, but a later account shows that she "prepare[d] frayed or torn men's pants for changes. Feather may have wished for a romantic relationship with Hipp and been turned down, but this is unlikely to have been the reason for her musical career's rapid decline.

Hipp also returned to her first love of painting. "The German magazine Jazz Podium reconstructed her painted caricatures of some jazz artists in 1995; Hipp wrote, "They look at the work, not you."

Hipp dropped out of the music industry in favor of dance. She suffered from depression and was unable to establish intimate relationships. She resumed interviewing in 1986. Blue Note did not know where to send her royalty checks until 2000. Lee Konitz was one of the few musicians to keep in touch with her until her death in Queens. Hipp died of pancreatic cancer in her apartment in Sunnyside, Queens, on April 7, 2003. She never married, but Attila Zoller was once engaged. Although her son was still alive and living in Germany in 2013, the New York Times obituary revealed that "Hipp has no known survivors."

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