She had been active as a professional pianist in her native Germany from 1946 on, was a member of the Hans Koller Quartet in the early 1950s and from 1954-55 led her own combo, The Jutta Hipp Quintet.

Hipp, 93, passed away on Sunday, January 4, 2026, in Mansfield, Ohio. She was born in Martinsburg, Ohio on January 29, 1932, ...

Last week I posted on German pianist Jutta Hipp, who recorded in the 1950s before disappearing from the jazz scene. I also mentioned that Katja von Schuttenbach—a jazz historian and journalist —had ...

It wasn’t the same feeling as striping an approach shot to within inches of the hole and tapping in for birdie. But when bidders paid $100 each for her apple pies during a junior golf fundraiser this ...

Jutta Hipp, a jazz pianist from Germany who had a short, celebrated career in the 1950s playing in New York nightclubs and making records for the Blue Note label, then turned her back on jazz to ...