Blue Wonder jazz band

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The Blue Wonder Jazzband at the closing parade of the Dixieland Festival 2010

The Blue Wonder Jazzband is an amateur band from Dresden . The band, which has played with an unchanged line-up since 1975, impresses with its unmistakable arrangements and three-part vocals, similar to the Rhythm Boys of the Paul Whiteman Orchestra . The musical style of the band is based on the jazz of the 1920s and 1930s.

Band history

Founding cast

  • Matthias Schädlich (trumpet)
  • Walter Hansi Lapschieß (trombone)
  • Frank Geipel (saxophone, vocals)
  • Lutz Rethberg (piano)
  • Klaus-Georg Jockel Eulitz (banjo, vocals)
  • Dietmar Bazant (bass)
  • Lutz Käubler (drums, washboard , vocals)

Six of the band members are graduated academics.

development

As early as 1973, Klaus-Georg Eulitz and Lutz Käubler occasionally made music with later band members and performed in the student club of the Technical University of Dresden . The official name was given during a joint appearance on January 29, 1975 in the Dresden Kulturpalast . The band name refers to a landmark , the Elbe bridge " Blaues Wunder ", in their hometown. The band's musical role models are Jelly Roll Morton , Bix Beiderbecke and the young Louis Armstrong .

In 1975 there was the only change in line-up of the band to date. For Lapschieß and Schädlich came Manfred Böhlig and Gert Müller, who wrote the band's arrangements . Three years later the band took part in the International Dresden Dixieland Festival for the first time . In 1980 she made her first guest appearance abroad at the “Old Jazz Meeting” in Warsaw . The first productions on GDR radio and further guest performances in socialist countries followed. In 1987 the Blue Wonder Jazz Band made a guest appearance at the “ Oldtime Jazz Weekend” in Salgótarján . A long-playing record was recorded at this festival , on which the band can also be heard. After the fall of the Berlin Wall , the band made guest appearances for the first time in western countries (Hamburg, West Berlin and Austria) and a year later the musicians appeared as the first East German artists at the Federal Press Ball in Bonn . Further guest appearances in the Federal Republic of Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Sweden followed.

In 2000 there was a tour to India. There were performances in New Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore with great response from the audience and the press.

Among the special highlights in the band's history are the joint concerts with the jazz legends Peanuts Hucko , Tommy Benford and Joe Muranyi . Since 2005, the East German jazz expert Karlheinz Drechsel has been an honorary member of the band, which has meanwhile become a crowd favorite and permanent guest at well-known jazz festivals.

Discography

CDs

  • The Red One (1993)
  • The Greens (1994)
  • The Black One (1996)
  • The Colorful (1999)
  • Blue Wonder Jazzband plays Morton & Ellington (2002)
  • 7. Dixieland Jubilee 2003 in the Kulturhaus Kornwestheim (2003)
  • Blue Wonder Jazzband Live (2006)
  • Blue Wonder Jazzband plays Oliver & Armstrong (2008)

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