LULO REINHARDT & DANIEL STELTER are famed solo guitarists throughout
Europe who have gone on to even greater success as a duo. Whether
playing a scorching lead or a cool rhythm, they bring new life to
classics from Lulo's great uncle, Django Reinhardt, to Duke Ellington.
Each is a riveting soloist with a wide variety of styles and influences
that extend from Argentina to Cuba and back to their German Gypsy roots. After an appearance at the famed Ellnora Guitar Festival in Champaign
IL in 2017, they will return to the United Sates for duo tours in 2018
and 2019.
Lulo Reinhardt, a name associated with World Music and his patented Latin Swing, is a guitar virtuoso with unmistakable roots
He was born in Koblenz on December 10, 1961 and comes from the famous Reinhardt family. Lulo was raised in the Sinti tradition where Django Reinhardt’s music played a massive part.
When he was five, Lulo was already inspired by his father Bawo Reinhardt’s record collection which included everything from Brazilian guitarist Baden Powell to the Shadows. His father was also his first guitar teacher and his mentor until his death in 2013.
Lulo played for twenty years in the family band, The Mike Reinhardt Sextet, starting at twelve as a rhythm guitarist and then later as a bassist until 1993. In 1993, he founded the band I Gitanos together with his father Bawo Reinhardt and Cousin Bavo Dége.
The band enjoyed success, sharing the stage with big names from the 1990s such as TOTO , Marla Glenn and Andreas Vollenweider. In 1995 he played at the 'Rock against Hate' in Lengenau ( Switzerland). The show had an audience of 60,000.
Being proud of their roots, the band recorded three albums in their own language, Romnes.
1994 I Suni
1997 Ab i Raisa
2009 Best of I Gitanos
This is significant, because in addition to the quality of their music, the band also made Sinti and Roma culture accessible to a wider audience. The band continued until Lulo’s father’s death in 2013.
Determined to grow both musically and personally , Lulo founded his own band in 2002: With 'Lulo Reinhardt Project', he would only release his own original compositions –a band that is 99.9 % cover music free, as he likes to put it.
From 2008, the Lulo Reinhardt Project was renamed the 'Lulo Reinhardt Latin Swing Project'.
The discography from this period.
2002 First album Project No 1
2005 Project No 2
2008 Latin Swing Project
2008 Live in Melbourne album, plus DVD Live recording in the famous Mirror tent.
2010 Katoomba Birds Recorded in Sydney and published by MGM
2013 Bawo album plus Live DVD
In 2012, a film – NEWO ZIRO – was shot about the Reinhardt family and has since aired numerous times on Phoenix.
After the success of the NEWO ZIRO project, the same team (Krieg & Nolte) shot another film, 'Desert Inspiration', in Morocco in 2015. This time they were exploring the connection between the culture of the Berber and their music in Morocco. The soundtrack by Lulo Reinhardt can also be found on his first solo album of the same title.
In 2017, he recorded a live CD with Daniel Stelter in the Stadtkirche in Darmstadt.
Daniel Stelter, and the NDR Big Band, also accompanied Lulo Reinhardt on his last tour in Europe, until just before Al Jarreau died.
In the same year, Lulo recorded the album ‘Gypsy meets Classic’ with Yuliya Lonskaya, a classical guitarist from Belarus.
A big dream came true in 2017. Lulo Reinhardt visited Calcutta in India, the origin of the Sinti and Roma. There he recorded ‘Gypsy Meets India’ with his friend Debhashish Bhattacharya and his longtime percussionist Uli Krämer. Also involved were Debhashish Bhattacharya’s brother Subhasis on Tabla and daughter Sukanya on vocals.
A film project planned for 2020 will document the migration of the Sinti and Roma from India. Lulo Reinhardt will retrace the way back to India, to where the migration from the Sindh region (India / Pakistan) originated.
A Sinto and a cosmopolitan, Lulo Reinhardt continuously embraces the new and the unknown in his dreams, ideas and plans, so we can expect many exciting projects in the future.
Daniel's Stelter's unique guitar style has made him a landmark musician in Germany’s Jazz scene. His sound encompasses jazz, pop and classical music. Since 2003 Stelter has been enhancing his own signature sound. Today he is a guitarist in demand, well-known on German jazz stages.
Stelter’s passion for music started early. He began playing the classical guitar at the age of eight, and was soon introduced to jazz, rock and pop music by his older brothers. As a teenager he spent hours meticulously listening and playing to tunes from records and tapes. He won acclaim at contests like „Jugend musiziert“ and „Jugend jazzt.“
At the age of 17 he was a member of the Federal Youth Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Peter Herbolzheimer. During that time, Stelter toured for six weeks through Southeast Europe and recorded a CD. After his graduation he studied jazz guitar with Norbert Scholly at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, but he never lost track of the classical guitar.
Stelter published many guitar pieces as a solo artist. Their sound, somewhere between classical music, jazz and folklore, can be heard on the ZYX sampler „world of acoustic guitars“.
Stelter formed a quartet with Ulf Kleiner (piano), Tommy Baldu (drums) and Michael Pauker (bass), which has already released three records, Homebrew Songs (2009), Krikelkrakel (2012) and Little Planets (2015). The quartet’s sound is a symbiosis of classical guitar with a touch of electronic music, a soundscape of cool beats, and a well-balanced dose of funk and soul. Not a note too much, very reluctant and minimalistic in its sound, but still highly impressive.
Daniel Stelter's music speaks for itself. The elaborate instrumentation is the essence. The quartet has already found its musical recipe, but isd still improving from album to album, adding further fine nuances to their sound.
Stelter is also a permanent member of the Ringsgwandl-Band, frequently touring through Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Since 2014 Daniel has been a permanent member of the band cast for the German TV-show “Sing meinen Song” (four Seasons, six specials), hosted by Xavier Naidoo, on the private channel VOX. In 24 episodes he has accompanied different German, Austrian and Swiss artists on the acoustic and electric guitar, helping to arrange their own cover-versions of different songs.
In 2016 Daniel Stelter was requested as guitar player for the NDR-BigBand and he has had the honour to accompany Jazz legend Al Jarreau on his tour through Europe, staging at Vienna’s Konzerthaus, Olympia in Paris, Opera Garnier in Monte Carlo, Paradiso in Amsterdam, Performing Arts Center in Kristiansand, Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Philharmonie in Berlin and Kongresshaus in Zürich.
Also in 2016 Daniel Stelter released the record „Live in der Stadtkirche” with the internationally acknowledged Gypsy Jazz guitar player Lulo Reinhardt, which instantly went up to become „Record of the month” in the German NDR Jazz Charts. Daniel and Lulo will be touring in North America in Fall 2017, and then returning in the 2018-2019 season.
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2018
October 12 American Dream Theater, Virginia Beach VA
October 13-14 Richmond Folk Festival, Richmond VA
2019
March 8 ArtsPlace, Portland IN
March 13 University of Florida, Gainesville FL
March 14 Florida State university, Tallahassee FL
March 16 South Miami-Dade Cultural Center, Miami FL
Lulo Reinhardt and Daniel Stelter will be available for US festivals in Summer 2018, and
concert tours in Fall 2018 and Spring 2019. Both Lulo and Daniel live
in Koblenz, Germany.
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