Boogie Woogie Company
| Boogie Woogie Company | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Boogie Woogie , mainstream jazz |
| founding | 1964 |
| Website | http://www.bwc-cologne.de/ |
| Founding members | |
| Leo von Knobelsdorff (until 1989) | |
| Ali Claudi | |
| Heinz Grah (until 1989) | |
| Kalle Hoffmeister | |
| Current occupation | |
piano |
Christoph Oeser (since 1990) |
guitar |
Ali Claudi |
double bass |
Paul G. Ulrich (since 1989) |
Drums |
Kalle Hoffmeister |
The Boogie Woogie Company is a German jazz band . The quartet , which has existed since 1964, is "the starting point of the boogie-woogie renaissance in Germany."
history
In the summer of 1964, the boogie-woogie pianist Leo von Knobelsdorff and the jazz guitarist Ali Claudi and a rhythm section met for a jam session about boogie woogie in the Cologne Kintopp-Saloon . In view of their success, they then founded the Boogie Woogie Company , which was later completed by bassist Heinz Grah and drummer Kalle Hoffmeister. The band soon gave international concerts and performed at festivals such as the Comblain Jazz Festival , the Berlin Jazz Days , the Frankfurt Jazz Festival , the Burghausen International Jazz Week , the Maastricht and Liège Jazz Festivals and the Leverkusener Jazz Days .
At the beginning of the 1970s her first two records were released by EMI , of which 80,000, an exceptional number for a German jazz formation, were sold.
Discography
- 1971 Live for Dancing ( Electrola )
- 1973 Our Blue Boogie Soul (Electrola)
- 1993 Let 'Em Jump (German Austrophon)
- 1995 Keep It Rolling (German Austrophon)
- 2004 Let the Good Times Roll
- 2015 Live with guests
Lexical entries
- Jürgen Wölfer : Jazz in Germany. The encyclopedia. All musicians and record companies from 1920 until today. Hannibal, Höfen 2008, ISBN 978-3-85445-274-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jürgen Wölfer Jazz in Germany , p. 42
- ↑ Leopold von Knobelsdorff (born April 3, 1932; † February 9, 2013) came into contact with Boogie Woogie in the 1940s via the American soldier channel AFN . Von Knobelsdorff's main job was as a sound engineer at WDR . Between 1964 and 1989 he was a pianist in the Boogie Woogie Company . He also played concerts with Axel Zwingenberger and appeared as a soloist. He was still active afterwards. In October 2011 he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the German Boogie Woogie. He died in February 2013 after a brief, serious illness. See biography on boogie-online.de and portrait at the Hamburg Boogie-Woogie Company ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
