Charly Tabor

Charly Tabor (born January 5, 1919 in Vienna , † July 29, 1999 in Griesstätt near Wasserburg am Inn ) was an Austrian trumpeter in the fields of jazz and light music .

Live and act

Tabor grew up in Vienna (his father was a military musician) and learned drums and later trumpet while training as a mechanic. He had various engagements at home and abroad and eventually moved to Munich, where he performed in the Reginapalast . From Munich he went on numerous international tours with large dance orchestras such as Bernard Etté and Will Glahé , but also with Teddy Stauffer . At times he played jazz in Lutz Templin's orchestra and was then a member of the band Charlie and His Orchestra , led by Templin , a big band put together for Nazi propaganda purposes , until he was drafted into military service in 1941. On the Russian front he played in officers' casinos and hospitals from 1941 to 1944.

After the end of the Nazi era , he lived again in Munich, where the American occupation troops commissioned him to found a new band after their invasion, with which he performed in the American soldiers' clubs in Munich and the surrounding area. In 1947 he worked on recordings of Freddie Brocksieper's quintet and orchestra (" Sing, Sing, Sing "); he also played with Viktor Reschke and Horst Winter . In the 1950s Tabor worked as an employee of the Munich studios and at Max Greger ; as a solo trumpeter in Bert Kaempfert's orchestra, he worked on his successful number “ Wunderland bei Nacht ” in 1959 and recorded again with Brocksieper (“ Begin the Beguine ”). Tabor, the advanced age musically active was played from the 1960s in various film and entertainment orchestras such as the Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra and the median band of Harald Banter , where he incidentally in 1966 in which a Durbridge resulting film version Title Melissa also played bass guitar .

Discographic notes

• Freddie Brocksieper: Drum Boogie (Bear Family Records, 1943–49)
• Freddie Brocksieper: Freddie's Boogie Blues (Bear Family Records, 1955–59)

literature

• Carola Zinner-Frühbeis: We were the greatest - German jazz and entertainment musicians between 1920 and 1950 . Frankfurt / M., Eisenbletter & Naumann, 1991. ISBN 3-927355-07-0 .
• Michael Kater Daring Game - Jazz in National Socialism , Cologne, Kiepenheuer & Witsch 1995, ISBN 3-462-02409-4 .
• Friedel Keim: The big book of the trumpet - instrument, history, trumpeter lexicon , Mainz, Schott Music International, 2005. ISBN 3-7957-0530-4 .
• 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 .

Remarks

1. ↑ after Keim and Wölfer but 1914
2. ↑ Melissa