Carlo Krahmer
Carlo Krahmer (* 1914 in Shoreditch , London , † 1976 ) was a British jazz - drummer and founder of the jazz label Esquire .
Krahmer was active as a jazz drummer from 1938, first in Claude Bampton's Jazz Orchestra; In 1939 he took part in George Shearing's first session (with Leonard Feather ). From 1940 he led his own bands in London clubs, played with Johnny Claes and Lew Stone . From 1943 to 1950 he led the band in the Feldman Club and from 1944 in the Nuthouse Club. In 1947 he increasingly withdrew from active musical life after he founded the Esquire label with Peter Newbrook. Many up-and-coming London jazz musicians from the bop scene, such as John Dankworth , Humphrey Lyttelton , Ronnie Scott , Eddie Thompson , Victor Feldman , Jimmy Deuchar (and also Krahmer himself, under names like Esquire Five or Carlo Krahmers Chicagoans ) published on the label . In addition to modern jazz , they also cultivated more traditional jazz. They published in Britain also plates of the Prestige label and the Dial recordings of Charlie Parker from 1946-47. Scandinavian jazz musicians such as Bengt Hallberg , Arne Domnerus and Lars Gullin also belonged to the catalog early on.
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| SURNAME | Krahmer, Carlo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British jazz drummer and jazz label founder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Shoreditch , London |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1976 |