Bobby Schmidt

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Bobby Schmidt (* 1923 in Berlin as Gerhard Schmidt ; † January 3, 2014 in Hamburg ) was a German jazz and entertainment musician ( drums , band leader) and music producer . He also wrote Schlager under the pseudonyms Peter Zeeden and Leo Suckman.

Live and act

Schmidt received piano lessons at the age of ten . At the age of 16 he was already leading his own combo ; he also appeared as a solo entertainer to earn the money for high school. In 1940 he played the piano with Ilja Glusgal in Berlin . After three years of military service in Russia, he worked in 1945 as an artist and comedian. In October 1945 he founded a big band with Kurt Edelhagen , which played for the American troop support in Bad Kissingen, Munich, Heidelberg and Frankfurt am Main until 1948. Schmidt remained in the orchestra, which Edelhagen then continued in a modified form, until April 1955; In the same year he was listed among the six best German drummers in the polls of the German Jazz Federation . Until 1954 he was involved in 29 recording sessions with Edelhagen and also recorded with Helmut Zacharias and in a trio with Mary Lou Williams .

In 1955 Schmidt founded his own sextet, which also accompanied Margrit Sörensen and later Renate Holm . In 1958 he became a music producer for the Polydor record company . There he worked for Max Greger and Wencke Myhre , among others . Together with James Last , he wrote the film music for Our Timpanists Go Up In The Air . He later also produced Plácido Domingo and The Three Tenors . As a composer he was also involved in hits like He has a bright red rubber boat or He stands in the gate .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c portrait (Der Drummer 10, 1955, p.)
  2. ↑ Brief portrait (SWR 4)
  3. ↑ Liner Notes for Kurt Edelhagen Rhapsody in Jazz (1954)
  4. ↑ Jürgen Schwab, The Frankfurt Sound. A city and its jazz history (s). Frankfurt a. M .: Societäts-Verlag, 2005, p. 77
  5. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online January 19, 2014)
  6. ^ Renate Holm A life according to the game plan: Stations of an unusual career edition q 1991, p. 154
  7. ↑ Bobby Schmidt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Bobby
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Gerhardt (real name); Zeeden, Peter (pseudonym); Suckman, Leo (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music producer and musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 2014
Place of death Hamburg