Alfred Lora

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Alfred Lora (* 1931 as Alfred Freiwald ) is a German jazz violinist and entertainment musician. Stylistically, he was influenced by Stéphane Grappelli and Helmut Zacharias . He is one of the few German Sinti musicians trained in music theory .

Life

Lora comes from a family of German Sinti who was persecuted several times under National Socialism . When in 1943 he was threatened with deportation to the Auschwitz concentration camp due to denunciation by neighbors , he fled Berlin with his relatives. After 1945 he studied music in Berlin, Munich and Nuremberg. His career as a professional musician began in the Ensemble Roy Romanderie , which was formed in the late 1940s . Lora became known to a wider public with the formation La Romanderie , founded in 1973 (which emerged from this ensemble); Guitar, violin, harp and an accordion were used as solo instruments for a traditional rhythm section. The group went on tour several times, had many television appearances and released the albums Swing Mamam Bruderherz - Musik deutscher Zigeuner (1975) and Gypsy Swing (1976).

Lora also founded the Alfred Lora New Swingtett , which performed bebop and swing with the American singer Rachel Gould and to which musicians like Joe Bawelino , also a member of the minority, belonged. In 1985 he released the album Straight Ahead ; In 1988 he performed at the North Sea Jazz Festival . He can currently be heard with his own groups and Swing Gypsy Rose .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ernst Wilhelm Holl: The Guitar in Gypsy Jazz ( Memento from September 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 11.5 MB) Diploma thesis, Dresden 1999.
  2. ↑ See Reimar Gilsenbach How Alfred Lora survived the meadow. From the history of a German Sinti family, in: pogrom - magazine for threatened peoples , no. 151 (1990), pp. 13-18.
  3. ↑ In addition to Alfred Lora (temporarily represented by Reinhold "Kleiner" Lora (v)), the cast included Wilhelm "Nanu" Krause (acc), Reinhold "Panzeli" Frantz (harp), Hugo "Schablein" Krause (solo g), Joseph “Ballacku” Krause and Wilmor “Gigi” Freiwald (rh-g), as well as Anton “Florian” Frantz (b).
  4. ^ Program North Sea Jazz Festival
personal data
SURNAME Lora, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Freiwald, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1931