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- Beitrag zur Casuistik der Insertio velamentosa
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Vienna-born Karl Ratzer ranks among Austria's internationally best-known jazz musicians. Like a lot of fusion guitar heroes, he came under the spell of blues-rock in the '60s before encountering jazz. Ratzer moved to the United States in 1972 where he got involved in a project called High Voltage - later better known as "Rufus & Chaka Khan." Ratzer stayed in Atlanta for several years where he adopted a strong Southern touch to his guitar playing. When he came to New York in 1977 he started a ban
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Karl
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Austria
- Place of birth
- Vienna
- Occupation
- composer
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- guitar
- Official website
- www.karlratzer.com
- Image
- Karl Ratzer Wien2008.jpg
- Work location
- New York City
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- Karl Ratzer
- date of birth
- 1950-07-04
- ethnic group
- Lovari
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