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Jutta Hipp

Jazz pianist Jutta Hipp was born on February 4, 1925 in Leipzig, Germany. Her music career was remarkably brief but appreciation for her recordings has grown over the years. At the age of nine, she began playing the piano while also expressing a talent in paining. The Nazi regime disapproved of jazz music, so she had to secretly gather with friends to listen or tune into forbidden radio stations. She was a student at the Leipzig Academy of Graphic Arts but when Russia occupied Leipzig in 1946, she was forced to move to Munich as a refugee. She experienced a period of displacement...