Bar trio

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Bar-Trio was simply the name of a German jazz formation from the 1930s and 1940s.

history

Inspired by American swing trios, the accordion player Kubi Kretschma, the guitarist Hans Belle and the pianist Bert Waldemar came together under the unspectacular but functional name "Bar-Trio" in order to reproduce this sound. With that they had a surprising success with the audience.

Between 1938 and 1943, took Bar Trio on at the "gramophone" a whole series of records, giving them despite American titles given to popular jazz standards like the Tiger Rag by Nick LaRocca , Shelton Brooks' Some of These Days , or the Duke Ellington compositions Caravan , Mood Indigo and Solitude were successful - without any recognizable concessions to the musical specifications of the National Socialist Chamber of Music ; However, titles were changed, so they turned toilet cell phones “ Saint Louis Blues ” into the faithful German sounding “St. Louis Klänge ”and from“ Sweet Sue, Just You ”a“ Whether you are happy ”. Just as swinging, they also played German hits by composers such as Werner Bochmann , Peter Kreuder , Adolf Steimel , Gerald Plato and Michael Jary . Occasionally they also recorded songs with vocals in which pianist Bert Waldemar acted as a whisper singer; In one recording, an otherwise unknown Lisa Loy sings a song by Kurt Basl.

After the war they got together again in a different line-up and made music together on the radio, but they stopped making records. Kretschma and Belle, who both settled in Munich, gave up music in favor of bourgeois professions. Kretschma ran a fashion salon, so far (2019) no details are known about the fate of Waldemar, Basl and Tilling.

music

“The easy swing is largely based on the rhythmic work of the guitar, the accordion sets individual accents, takes on the chord and melody work, supported by the piano or the celesta . The light-heartedness and lightness with which the bar trio plays makes today's listeners hardly suspect how complex some arrangements are. ”The German jazz historian Horst H. Lange attested to the bar trio in his 1966 book“ Jazz in Germany ”, To play "passable swing music with hot accordion": "They were just as good at it as foreign groups of the same or similar composition".

Aftermath

The playing style and line-up of the bar trio still had numerous followers in the post-war period and made it the model for several new jazz trios, although the piano was replaced by the more portable double bass.

Perhaps the most popular of these were, alongside the Lucas trio around the accordionist and later choirmaster Botho Lucas , who made regular guest appearances at RIAS , “ The Three Travelers ” in Berlin, who performed from 1946 to the 1970s and made recordings for Odeon . They also caused a sensation with their singing, which led them away from actual jazz and towards hits and cabaret. Jürgen Wölfer calls them “probably the most successful German bar trio” using the traditional name.

Sound documents (examples)

The catalog of the music archive at the DNB lists 160 recordings of the “Bar Trio (Kubi Kretschma, accordion. Bert Waldemar, piano / celesta. Hans Belle, guitar)” on “gramophone”:

  • 47196 A (Matr. 7640 GR) Some of These Days (The day is coming soon), Foxtrot (Shelton Brooks)
  • 47196 B (Matr. 7641 GR) Caravan (Karawane) (Duke Ellington), up. March 1938.
  • 47207 A (Matr. 7796 ½ GD8) Tiger Rag (La Rocca)
  • 47207 B (Matr. 7795 GR) Limehouse Blues (Furber - Braham)
  • 47241 A (Matr. 7965 GD8) Sweet Sue - Just You (Whether you are happy), Foxtrot (Harris & Young), aufgen. September 1938.
  • 47241 B (Matr. 7966 ½ GD8) St. Louis Klänge (WC Handy)
  • 47271 (Matr. 3533 ½ GD8) The Snake Charmer (The Snake Charmer) Foxtrot (Leonard Whitcup, Teddy Powell). Oct 12, 38
  • 47376 A (Matr. 8452 ½ GR9) Song of India (Hindulied) (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakow)
  • 47376 B (Matr. 8454 GR9) Little Girl, Foxtrot (Hyde & Henry), 1939
  • 47405 B (Matr. 3534 ½ GN9) Traumlos. Slowfox (Gordon & Revel), 1938
  • 47417 A (Matr. 8879-2 GR9) If I only knew [who I kissed at midnight at the Lido]. Foxtrot (W. Bochmann) Year of recording: 1940.
  • 47479 B (Matr. 8671½ GD9) Solitude (Solitude) (Duke Ellington), 1940
  • 47600 A (Matr. 9249 GD9) Men are already worth love! Foxtrot (Steimel seal), 1941
  • 47744 A (Matr. 9735-2 GD9) Say, what are you going to do? Slowfox (Guus Jansen)
  • 47745 (Mat. 9739 ½ GD9) Have you ever kissed in the dark? Foxtrot (Michael Jary), 1942
  • 47746 A (Matr. 9740 ½ GD) Always happy. Foxtrot (Peter Kreuder)
  • 47902 (Matr. 10 018-2 GD9) So lively. Foxtrot (Hans Rosenfelder), open. Berlin 1943
Recordings with singing
  • 47197-A (Matr. 7642 ½ GR 8) Don't cry, a beautiful woman will break your heart. Slowfox (Stolz & Marischka) bar trio with vocals: B. Waldemar.
  • 47197-B (Matr. 7643 GR9) A potpourri, contains: When the red poppy blossoms - you, you walk past me - across the prairie. Bar trio with vocals: B. Waldemar. Year of recording: 1938.
  • 47950-A (Matr. 9257 ½ GD9) I don't want to fall in love. Foxtrot (Kurt Basl) Bar Trio with vocals: Lisa Loy. Up. 1941

Re-releases

Recordings of the bar trio have been released on vinyl LP or CD by several companies. B. on Polydor 46 986, also »Stern« Musik 46 986: “Stars of your time: The Bar Trio. Original recordings 1938–1943 ”(vinyl LP) and Polydor 2664 209“ Die Grossen Tanzorchester 1930–1950: Das Bar Trio ”(vinyl double LP), also at the label Boutique (Universal Music) 06024 9858396 under the title“ Always happy ”(CD in the Jazz Club series ).

literature

  • Bayerischer Rundfunk (Ed.): Finding aid for radio manuscripts, part 1 1946 to 1950 - BR. Edited by Sebastian Lindmayr. Bayerischer Rundfunk, Historical Archive / ABD. August 2006.
  • Sophie Fetthauer: Deutsche Grammophon (= music in the "Third Reich" and in exile . Volume 9). Verlag von Bockel, 2000, ISBN 3-932696-38-7 , p. 230
  • Willy Fritsch , Jimmy Jungermann  : ... that won't come back: memories of a film actor. Verlag W. Classen, 1963, DNB 451385489 .
  • Horst H. Lange : The German '78 discography of hot dance and jazz music 1903–1958. Colloquium Verlag, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-7678-0452-2 , pp. 109-111.
  • Horst H. Lange: Jazz in Germany. The German Jazz Chronicle 1900–1960. Colloquium Verlag, Berlin 1966, OCLC 869550 .
  • Tom Lord : The Jazz discography. Volume 32, Verlag Lord Music Reference, 2003, ISBN 1-881993-06-X , p. B-88.
  • Jens Uwe Völmecke: Cover text for the CD edition “Das Bar Trio”, reproduced on rocknroll-schallplatten-forum .
  • Jürgen Wölfer : Jazz in Germany: the lexicon; all musicians and record companies from 1920 until today. Verlag Hannibal, 2008, ISBN 978-3-85445-274-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ They published their first recordings as “Die Rhythmus-Mixer”, cf. Heino Fritz at rocknroll-schallplatten-forum.de , but soon dropped the name again.
  2. ↑ here would Slim Gaillard to name, along with his band Slim and Slam the humorous scat singing used; the bar trio recorded the famous swing title The Flat Foot Floogie from him, cf. Grammophon 47 277 A, can be heard on youtube.com , label shown. at rocknroll-schallplatten-forum.de
  3. ↑ several times (wrongly? Always "Kretschma" on the labels ) also Kretschmar (e.g. in Fetthauer [2000] and Lindmayr [2006])
  4. ↑ who had to retire from 1940 due to the war and was replaced by Kurt Basel (other sources: Basl), who in May 1943 was then replaced by Fred Tilling, cf. Lange, Jazz in Germany. P. 92, and Völmecke, blurb.
  5. ↑ See label at discogs.com
  6. ↑ cf. Wölfer p. 24f .: "Bar-Trio was a swing-influenced trio of the thirties and forties in the instrumentation accordion (Kubi Kretschma), piano (Bert Waldemar) and guitar (Hans Belle), later with Kurt Basl or Fred Tilling (piano) , Max Holl (bass) and Paul Höpfner (clarinet) ”.
  7. ↑ cf. Finding aid for radio manuscripts, part 1, p. 23: SN / 13.2 manuscripts August 7, 1947 - August 12, 1947: “August 9, 1947 - first big dance evening: with the radio dance orchestra under Herbert Beckh, Jakie Segar, bar trio with Kubi Kretschmar [sic] , Evelyn Rehs, moderation by Günther Jerschke , Ruth Kappelsberger , Fritz Horrmann ”.
  8. ↑ one of the last seems to be Polydor 48 179 A (mx. 1208 KK) Tonight I have a rendez-vous (Gardens) and -B (mx. 1207 KK) What a woman dreams of being in spring (Kollo) is up. on June 1, 1949 with Kretschma, Belle, Höpfner and Höll, cf. Lange, 78er Discogr, p. 111.
  9. ↑ cf. Völmecke, blurb.
  10. ↑ so "skywise" on June 8th, 2008 at meineammlung.com
  11. ↑ on p. 92.
  12. ↑ Fritsch-Jungermann, p. 40 speaks of the "much imitated, but never reached bar trio".
  13. ↑ The bar trio of pianist Paul Kuhn was again occupied with piano, rhythm guitar and bass in 1965.
  14. ↑ This traditional line of three-part singing with accordion, guitar and bass accompaniment extends to the Eilemann trio, which became famous in the Rhenish Carnival , consisting of Günter Eilemann , accordion, Horst Muys, double bass and Karl-Heinz Nettesheim, rhythm guitar. See kölner-karneval.de
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