Barrelhouse jazz band

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The Barrelhouse Jazzband is Germany's most successful traditional jazz band ( New Orleans style , swing ); its musicians mainly come from the Frankfurt am Main region.

history

The Barrelhouse Jazzband Frankfurt was founded in 1953 as an amateur band, has been working professionally since the mid-1980s and over the years has become Germany's most internationally renowned jazz band. The band has released many traditional jazz records over the years. She makes music in the classic combo line-up with trumpet / trombone, clarinet / saxophone and a rhythm section consisting of piano, guitar, bass and drums. In 1962 the original line-up broke up; since then Reimer von Essen has been band leader and arranger. The first LP was released in 1966 (in the USA), and around 25 other LPs and CDs have since followed. In 1968, the band members were made honorary citizens of New Orleans ; Over the years, tours have taken the band to over 50 countries, often to Africa and Asia on behalf of the Goethe Institute .

The band plays with legendary soloists from the history of jazz at the "Barrelhouse Jazz Party", which has been held annually in Frankfurt's Alte Oper since 1983 . She played with Mezz Mezzrow , Arnett Cobb , Buddy Tate , Al Gray , Doc Cheatham , Clark Terry , Harry Sweets Edison , Jimmy Witherspoon , Bob Haggart , Sammy Price , Jay McShann and Angela Brown, among others . Lionel Hampton and his orchestra celebrated the 40th anniversary in 1993 ; Horst Lippmann published "Das Barrelhouse Buch" about the history of the band.

The band has been playing since 2014 with Reimer von Essen and Frank Selten (clarinet, saxophone), Horst Schwarz (trumpet, trombone, vocals), Christof Sänger (piano), Roman Klöcker (guitar, banjo), Lindy Huppertsberg (double bass) and Michael Ehret (drums). The Barrelhouse Jazzband has been managed by Dieter Nentwig since 1971 .

Participation in major jazz festivals on four continents and the German Record Prize 1977 (so far the only honor of this kind for traditional jazz from Germany) show the importance of the band.

Discography

  • Driving Hot Jazz (1965)
  • Talking Hot (CBS 1966, also L + R Records 1993)
  • Barrelhouse Jazzband, Michael Sell Trio & Heinz Sauer Hot and Free (1973)
  • Barrelhouse Jazzband & Angi Domdey ( Bellaphon 1973)
  • Barrelhouse Jazzband & Angi Domdey Traveling Blues (Bellaphon 1976)
  • You Are Driving Me Crazy (Bellaphon 1976, German Record Award 1977)
  • Barrelhouse Jazzband & The Trevor Richards New Orleans Trio: Drum Face (Phonola 1977)
  • 25 years Barrelhouse Jazzband Frankfurt ( Intercord 1978)
  • Barrelhouse Jazzband & Carrie Smith : Barrelhouse Jazzband & Carrie Smith (Intercord 1979)
  • 5th Swing and Dixieland Festival Bad Dürkheim (Kiwanis International 1983)
  • Plays Early Swing (Bellaphon 1983)
  • The New Orleans Renaissance ( L + R Records 1987)
  • Plays Duke Ellington (L + R Records 1989)
  • Plays King Oliver (Bellaphon 1992)
  • You Are Driving Me Crazy (L + R Records 1993)
  • 40 years Barrelhouse Jazzband (double CD, L + R Records 1993)
  • Plays Early Swing (L + R Records 1993)
  • Showboat (1995)
  • 100 Years Louis Armstrong (Trion 2000)
  • New Orleans Joys! (2001)
  • 50 - Barrelhouse Now (2003)
  • Highlights
  • Live - 10th Dixieland Jubilee 2006
  • Portrait (2007)
  • Angela Brown, Jan Luley & Barrelhouse Jazzband: God Has Smiled on Me (2008)
  • Creole Spirit - Live at the 16th Dixieland Jubilee (Chaos, 2012)
  • 60 Years - Living the Music (Book and CD, 2013)
  • 1976 - 2013: The Music of Jelly Roll Morton (2014)
  • Barrelhouse Jazzband Meets Denise Gordon: Live in Concert (2016)
  • Barrelhouse Jazzband & Joan Faulkner : 66 years ... especially now! (2019)
Singles
  • Gustav Zeillinger with the Barrelhouse Jazzband Die Alten Rittersleut (Philipps 1974)
Recordings on samplers
  • Internationales Dixieland Festival Dresden 74 (Amiga 1974, also The Down Town Jazz Band, Old-Time-Memory-Jazz-Band, Cave Stompers etc.)
  • Internationales Dixieland Festival Dresden '76: Heebies Jeebies (Amiga 1976, also Traditional Jazz Studio Prague , Dixieland Group of the Dresden Dance Symphony , Papa Binne's Jazz Band and others)
  • Dixieland Jubilee Vol. V. (Intercord 1978, also Chris Barber , Acker Bilk , Max Collie , Alex Welsh , Stuttgarter Dixieland All Stars, Old Merry Tale Jazzband and others)
  • Jazz from Frankfurt . (City of Frankfurt am Main 1979, also Two Beat Stompers , Albert Mangelsdorff , Emil Mangelsdorff , Volker Kriegel , Benno Walldorf and others)
  • Jazz in der Burg (Joke Records 1979, also Trevor Richards, Milano Jazz Gang, Anachronic Jazzband etc.)
  • Music from Hessen (Hessian state government / CBS 1980, as well as numerous other groups from Hessen in the areas of classical, jazz and rock)
  • Dixie Party (Intercord 1981)
  • Old Time Jazz - Jazz Im Tägi '82 (Elite Special 1982; also Joe Turner , Buddha's Gamblers , Mojo Jazzing Five, Bucktown Jazzband Zurich)
  • Dixieland Jubilee . Intercord 1984; also Knut Kiesewetter , Jimmy McPartland , Stuttgarter Dixieland All Stars Featuring Ragtime Specht , Old Merry Tale Jazzband and others.
  • Hot Frankfurt Mainstream Live . (Double LP, 1822 Jazz Records 1993, also Red Hot Beans / Red Hot Hottentots / Gustl Mayer 's Jazz Stampede)
  • Barrelhouse Jazzband / European Jazz Association : Jazz for Friends (double LP, 1822 Jazz Records 1993, as well as Traditional Association, Blues Association, Swing Association)

Filmography

  • Barrelhouse Jazzband, Al Di Meola and others: The Best of Jazz in Burghausen 2009, Vol. 4 (DVD sampler, 2009)
  • Barrelhouse Jazzband & Harriet Lewis: Live In Concert (DVD, 2010)

literature

  • Horst Lippmann (Ed.): The Barrelhouse Book: 40 Years of Jazz. Frankfurt am Main: Societäts-Verlag, 1993
  • Jürgen Schwab : The Frankfurt sound. A city and its jazz history (s) . Frankfurt a. M .: Societäts-Verlag, 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German Record Prize 1977 . In: Fono Forum 5/1977, p. 13. Online . Retrieved May 9, 2019
  2. ↑ Recordings are from 1959 to 1977, e.g. Some with guest musicians like Sam Wooding , Mezz Mezzrow , René Franc , Wild Bill Davison , Jimmy McPartland , Dick Cary , Pee Wee Erwin , Bob Barton and Angi Domdey.
  3. ↑ Contains tracks from eight albums released by the band between 1966 and 1992.