Barrelhouse Jazz Band Vienna
| Barrelhouse Jazz Band Vienna | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Vienna, Austria) |
| Genre (s) | jazz |
| founding | 1960 |
| Website | www.barrelhouse-jazzband.at/ |
| Founding members | |
| Franzi Bilik, Peter Hofmann, Otti Kitzler, Othmar Gräfinger, Horst Bichler | |
| Current occupation | |
| Heinz Czadek | |
| Sigi Dietrich | |
| Franz Luttenberger | |
| Humbert Augustynowicz | |
| Peter Bauer | |
| Horst Bichler | |
The Barrelhouse Jazzband Wien (also Barrelhouse Jazzband Vienna ) is an Austrian traditional jazz band that has existed since 1960.
history
The formation was founded in 1960 by Franzi Bilik , Peter Hofmann, Otti Kitzler, Othmar Gräfinger and Horst Bichler. Alfons Würzl had worked for the band with interruptions since 1961. Willi Meerwald had been a member of the band since 1963. Partly Bill Grah also belonged to the band.
In the 1960s the group performed in the Viennese jazz clubs Mausefalle , Adebar , Riverboat , Art Center , Atrium and Storyville , and since 1972 in Jazzland . From 1962, the Barrelhouse Jazzband Vienna toured through Denmark , the Federal Republic of Germany , the German Democratic Republic , Czechoslovakia , Hungary , Spain and Switzerland . In 1962 the first recordings were made at the Austrian amateur jazz festival .
The band won the competition at the Austrian Amateur Jazz Festival in 1964, 1965 and 1967 . Otti Kitzler (trumpet), Cord Dumrese (clarinet), Alfons Würzl (clarinet) and Horst Bichler (drums) received additional soloist prizes. Since then the band has been cultivating Chicago jazz . The group has recorded albums with traveling musicians such as Max Kaminsky and Wild Bill Davison since 1973 . On the album Blue Danube (1978) she also devoted herself to the Wienerlied .
Web links
- Barrelhouse Jazzband Wiener
- Barrelhouse Jazzband Wien at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Barrelhouse Jazzband Vienna. Retrieved July 31, 2018 .