David Ostwald

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David Ostwald (* 1955 or 1956) is an American lawyer who is best known as a musician ( tuba , bass saxophone ) of traditional and mainstream jazz .

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David Ostwald (left) interviews the jazz historian Dan Morgenstern at a seminar as part of the Satchmo Summerfest 2012 in New Orleans. At the lectern the author Jon P. Pult.

Ostwald grew up in Swarthmore , Pennsylvania. He began to learn the piano at the age of seven and the tuba from the age of eleven. He studied classical music until his junior year in high school, then turned to jazz. He studied philosophy at the University of Chicago and formed his first jazz band in 1976. Then he moved to New York, where he studied law at the New York Law School from 1979 . His main profession as a lawyer and in the law firm Schechter & Brucker, he has led the Gully Low Jazz Band since 1980 ; the band played classic jazz from the 1920s and 1930s and performed at New York's Red Blazer jazz club , Too on Third Avenue . The band's title is derived from "Gully Low Blues", which Louis Armstrong ( Okeh 8474) recorded on May 14, 1927 with his Hot Seven .

On the album Gully Low Jazz Band in Dreamland Ostwald u. a. with Randy Reinhart and Randy Sandke . The band's second album with blues singer Big Joe Turner was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1986. In 1999 the formation's fourth album, Blues in Our Heart , was released on Nagel-Heyer Records . With his band he also performed regularly in New York's Birdland as the Louis Armstrong Eternity Band . He also played with musicians such as Wynton Marsalis , Dick Hyman , Nicholas Payton , Clark Terry , Benny Waters , Woody Allen , Jon Hendricks , Leon Redbone , The Rent Party Revellers ( Shake That Thing ), but also the Oxford University Orchestral Society under Jack Westrup . In the field of jazz, according to Tom Lord , he was involved in twelve recording sessions between 1982 and 2001. In addition, Ostwald is active as a jazz author and is considered an Armstrong historian.

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  1. ↑ Augus Loten: Can You Mute That Tuba? Lockdown Forces Musicians to Practice Quietly. Wall Stret Journal, May 5, 2020, accessed June 9, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Low pitch, high demand. In: The University of Chicago Magazin. December 2003, accessed June 10, 2020 .
  3. ^ Sanford Josephson: Jazz Notes: Interviews across the Generations: Interviews across the Generations . Santa Barbara: ABC Clio, 2009
  4. ↑ JazzTimes , Volume 30, Issues 6-10. 2000
  5. ^ New York Magazine August 2, 1982
  6. ↑ a b Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed June 1, 2020)
  7. ^ David Ostwald: David Ostwald Remembers George Avakian. In: JazzTimes . April 14, 2018, accessed June 10, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Ostwald, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (tuba, bass saxophone)
DATE OF BIRTH 1955 or 1956