DER US-AMERIKANISCHE FOLK- UND BLUES-GITARRIST, SÄNGER UND SONGWRITER DANNY KALB IST GESTORBEN

22.11.2022 Der am 9. September 1942 in Mount Vernon (New York) geborene US-amerikanische Songwriter, Folk- und Blues-Gitarrist und -Sänger Danny Kalb (Bild) ist am 19. November 2022 in New York City gestorben. In den 1960er-Jahren spielte er Gitarre bei Aufnahmen und Auftritten u.a. von Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Dave Van Ronk, Judy Collins, Phil Ochs, Stefan Grossman, John Gilmore, Artie und Happy Traum, Jimmy Witherspoon, Sun Ra und Sam Charters. Besonders bekannt wurde er ab 1965 als Gründer und Mitglied der stilbildenden Band Blues Project mit Al Kooper, Steve Katz, Andy Kulberg, Roy Blumenfeld und Tommy Flanders. Katz und Kooper gründeten später die Blood, Sweat and Tears. Danny Kalb feierte auch Erfolge mit Solokonzerten und mit dem Projekt Dan & Dale.

Bild: Danny Kalb - Ausschnitt Foto auf Facebook-Seite von Steve Katz, https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10226245888106496&set=pcb.10226245782223849

Danny Kalb, Guitarist Who Gave Blues-Rock an Edge, Dies at 80

His 1960s band, the Blues Project, won a following with a driving, experimental approach to traditional material that was anything but purist.

Jon Pareles

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/20/arts/music/danny-kalb-dead.html

New York Blues Guitar Stalwart Was 80

Kalb lent his vocals to the blues songs, and his groups were respected by musicians on the scene for their penchant to experiment with new forms.

Bruce Haring

https://deadline.com/2022/11/danny-kalb-dies-blues-guitar-stalwart-was-80-obituary-1235177926/

Danny Kalb, Lead Guitarist of NYC’s Influential Blues Project, Dies at 80

Along with Michael Bloomfield of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Kalb emerged as an early American guitar hero as the hybrid genre of blues-rock came into its own in the mid-’60s. His lead lines, whether high-velocity and stinging or slow and measured, were never less than dazzling, and always packed with emotion; he never sacrificed tastefulness for flash. He learned his craft from the master bluesmen of the era and applied it to the new breed of blues music that was infiltrating rock on both sides of the Atlantic. His work was highly influential, and he was admired by many guitar slingers who rose to greater prominence in his wake.

Jeff Tamarkin

https://bestclassicbands.com/danny-kalb-obituary-11-19-22/

"Dylan crashed with me for a few weeks in Madison on his way from Hibbing, Minn., to New York," Kalb told AM New York in 2013. "We had so much fun, I dropped out and followed him."

Kalb subsequently met Dave Van Ronk, an influential figure in the Greenwich Village folk music scene. The guitarist quickly became a mainstay of the scene himself, performing and recording with the likes of Dylan, Judy Collins and Phil Ochs.

Allison Rapp

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/danny-kalb-dead/

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Two big losses... RIP Greg Bear, whose "Blood Music" showed me a whole other way of thinking. And Danny Kalb, who was always so kind to a 15-year-old trying to figure out how he did such amazing things with just six strings.

Janis Ian

https://www.facebook.com/janisianpage

The legendary Danny Kalb has boarded The Mystery Train at 80 after a long illness. If you have ever heard his electric work with The Blues Project, you are aware that he was one of the finest guitar virtuosos who ever lived. His astounding, soul drenched revelatory riffs on "Two Trains Running" featured on the LP "Projections" is the stuff of legend. The legacy of Danny Kalb is an important and immortal one. Sleep Well Danny.

Rick Buckland

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=8773403722671435&set=a.103248506353710

His passing marks one more loss in our shared musical history, especially for those of us who came up in the Greenwich Village scene of the late '50s and '60s. Danny was certainly an integral part of that, and our friendship is something for which I'll always be grateful.

Happy Traum

https://www.facebook.com/happytraum

Audios / Videos:

Bob Dylan And Danny Kalb - Mean Old Railroad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFOPFiMylZ8

Danny Kalb - Hello Baby Blues, 1964

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtmIj3YErxs&t=7s

The Blues Project - 01 - I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes (by EarpJohn)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWByXh0hAoQ&list=PLCCF5F612C7F6E73F

The Blues Project - Live At The Café Au Go Go (1966)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsOEAdMqvGA&list=PLRQKT-Cu2_2SnqeXEYOW1PKngiO-MrvjH

The Blues Project - You Can't Catch Me