Celestial Harmonies

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it all began with an open door…

Eckart Rahn realized early on that he wanted a life in music. But the prospects for a young man from a small town in Germany, with no money and no formal education, were bleak, to put it mildly. “I didn’t even come from any musical background,” Rahn explains. “There was no music in our house, and no money for music.” Growing up in the small university town of Marburg, Rahn was one of those typical lost youths of the early 60s—unhappy in school, unenthused about the local job market, and uncertain about what kind of future he actually wanted. That all changed on a hot summer day when Rahn was fifteen. “I was walking past a Marburg record shop,” he recalls; “and because it was so hot they had their door open, and I could hear the record playing inside. It was The Sonny Rollins Trio Live at the Village Vanguard on Blue Note. I had never heard anything like it.” The impact was immediate: Rahn bought the record. “I didn’t even own a turntable, but I had to have that LP.”

Almost immediately, the young Eckart Rahn set out to become a jazz bassist. He bought a used Kay bass from an airport security guard who happened to be a retired bassist from a nearby opera house, and spent much of the next four years trying to learn how to master the instrument. “I dropped out of high school in 1963,” Rahn continues, “and got a job at the Marburg City Theater. This was a turning point, because I was a stagehand, did work as an extra, and operated the tape for the incidental music.” He found the tape operation to be another sort of open door.
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