Abbi Huebner

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Albert Charles Otto "Abbi" Hübner (born February 4, 1933 in Hamburg ) is a German jazz trumpeter and author. The doctor with a doctorate in general and occupational medicine was the head director of the medical service of the Hamburg Department of the Interior from 1980 to 1996 and plays hot jazz . He is the oldest jazz musician in Hamburg (as of 2019).

Life and work

Hübner spent his childhood in Eilbek attending the Kantstraße elementary school, after the bombing by the Royal Air Force from 1943 to 1944, he was housed in a barracks camp in Wesloe , a small village near Lübeck, and then in a caravan in Rahlstedt until 1947. From 1943 initially pupil of the Lübeck Johanneum, then from 1944 the high school for boys in Rahlstedt. After the death of his father he lived with his mother in poverty and in the post-war period on the verge of starvation and frostbite. After graduating from high school and passing the Senate test (higher civil service career), he worked for the social welfare office. Then he first studied German, history, sports until 1957 and from 1957 medicine at the University of Hamburg until 1964. After the state examination and medical assistantship in the hospitals of Wandsbek and Barmbek, he was licensed in 1966. Since 1970 he has been employed in the medical service of the Ministry of the Interior. His doctorate in medicine with a thesis on the exposure of fire service officers during a breathing apparatus exercise took place in 1978.

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Sporting successes:

  • 1947 Hamburg champion in soccer with the 1st student team of the Wandsbeker soccer club
  • 1951 Hamburg master of fistball with the first student team of the Rahlstedt high school
  • 2010 winner of the 8th Hamburg double round in tennis with the 1st men's team of TSV Hohenhorst in the age group 65 years

Musician

Hübner became enthusiastic about jazz through broadcasts by the BFN . “I am a musical child of the BFN,” he stated. From 1951 he played the trumpet, received lessons from Günter Schoof and became a member of the Rahlstedter Trombone Choir in 1953 and of Rommy Bakers Dixieland Wanderers in 1954 , before he founded his first band, the Low Down Wizards . He continued to play in bands such as the Original Barrelhouse Orchestra & Barrelhouse Skiffle 'Group (1955/56) before founding his Jailhouse Jazzmen , which he directed until 1964. In 1963, the band played the music in the play All Children of God Have Wings by Eugene O'Neill in the Junge Theater, directed by Friedrich Schütter .

Abbi Hübner's Low Down Wizards , in which Hübner plays and sings trumpet , have existed since 1964 . As early as 1967, the band took first place at the Niederrheinjazzfestival in Viersen. In 1974, Hübner won a poll in the Hamburger Abendblatt and was voted “ Hamburg's best cornetist / trumpeter” by the readers . Hübner also played with musicians such as Gene Conners , George Lewis , Kid Ory , Albert Nicholas , Ikey Robinson , Lillian Boutté , Janice Harrington and Emmanuel Sayles, with whom he also partially recorded. He has also performed with bands such as the Barrelhouse Jazzband (Frankfurt,), the Maryland Jazz Band of Cologne , the Original Storyville Jazzband (Vienna), Papa Bue's Viking Jazzband , Sidney's Blues (Berlin), the Riverside Jazzband (Hamburg), the Jazz Lips ( Hamburg), the New Orleans Quarter, (Hamburg) and the Trevor Richards Trio. In 1986 he worked as a musician and actor in Hark Bohm's feature film The Little Public Prosecutor, as well as in a documentary about Ken Colyer .

Recordings were made with the Original Barrelhouse Orchestra & Skiffle Group, the Jailhouse Jazzmen, the Abbi Hübner's Low Down Wizards, the Oldtime All Stars, the Hot Swingsters, Hamburg, the Art Hodes Blues Serenaders, the King Oliver Heritage Jazzband, the European Jazz Association, the Barrelhouse Jazzband , Reimer from Essen's Buddy Bolden Band and the musicians Albert Nicholas and Gene Conners.

author

From 1984 to the nineties, Hübner worked as a freelancer in the NDR's jazz editorial team , wrote and spoke hundreds of programs, such as the series "Im Schatten des Giganten", "Jazz Classics" and "Hot Jazz". He is the author of a book on Louis Armstrong and several contributions to the books “And Our Hearts in New Orleans. The history of hot jazz in Hamburg, 1950 to 2000 "and" Encounters: How jazz won our hearts "by Klaus Neumeister, some chapters in the book" Swinging Hamburg - Jazz in Hamburg from A to Z ", the chapter" The Gov 'ner ”in the Ken Colyer biography (2006), the series The The Cradle of Jazz (the genesis of jazz music, published in the Swinging Hamburg Journal until 2006) and the brochure“ Low Down Dirty Shame Blues ”(in the 4- CD box "Go down to New Orleans. Music and history of a Hamburg band"). Hübner's book about Louis Armstrong was celebrated as the non-fiction book of the year by Werner Burkhardt in the Hamburger Abendblatt and Michael Naura in Die Zeit after its publication in 1994 .

Huebner's poems have appeared in various anthologies and magazines, for example in "Traces on My Soul" (Wenig, Dorsten 1994), in the "Almanach of German-speaking Writers' Doctors" (Lübeck 1996 and 1997) and in the "Yearbook Lyrik 2000" (Wenig, Dorsten 2001) .

Prizes and awards

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  • 3rd place as a trumpeter at the German Amateur Jazz Festival in Düsseldorf in 1957
  • 1962 and 1963 with the Jailhouse Jazzmen winners of the band battle for the title of "Hamburg's most popular jazz band"
  • 1974 winner of the evening paper poll for the best jazz trumpeter in Hamburg.
  • 1965 Winner of the 1st Lower Rhine Festival in Viersen with the Abbi Hübner's Low Down Wizards
  • In 2016, Hübner was honored as Keeper of the Flame for his life's work by the Park Lane Jazz Club Osnabrück .

Fonts

  • Louis Armstrong. His life, his music, his records. Oreos, Waakirchen 1994, ISBN 3-923657-35-8 .
  • Joker and parody bird in the nest of world literature. Klönschnack, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-945940-00-6 .

literature

  • Gerard Bieldermann, Ervin Elvers: Abbi Hübner Discography. Bielderman, Zwolle 1988, DNB 974756784 .
  • Friedel Keim : The big book of the trumpet: Instrument - history - trumpeter lexicon. Schott, Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-7957-0530-4 .
  • Horst H. Lange : Jazz in Germany. Colloquium, Berlin 1966; 2nd edition: Olms, Hildesheim 1996, ISBN 3-487-08375-2 .
  • Joachim Mischke: Hamburg Music. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-455-50044-8 .
  • Jürgen Rau: Hamburg, your pearls. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8378-2011-9 .
  • Wolfgang Rischer: Solo for Abbi, volume of poetry "Landvergabe", 1988, David's prints, Göttingen
  • Jürgen Wölfer : Jazz in Germany. The encyclopedia. All musicians and record companies from 1920 until today. Hannibal, Höfen 2008, ISBN 978-3-85445-274-4 .

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personal data
SURNAME Huebner, Abbi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Huebner, Albert Charles Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg