Dieter Keitel

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Dieter Keitel (* 17th April 1941 in Rockstedt ; † 4. November 2009 in Zeuthen ) was a German jazz - drummer and bandleader.

Live and act

Keitel first learned the clarinet and began training on this instrument in 1955 at the music school in Sondershausen . Since there was a shortage of applicants on the drums, he switched to this. Then he studied at the “Hanns Eisler” University of Music in Berlin and initially worked in the Gloria dance orchestra . From 1962 he was a member of the black and white dance orchestra under Karl Meyer, before moving to Fips Fleischer in 1966 , whose big band he was a member of until 1971. Then he worked with Friedhelm Schönfeld , then with Hannes Zerbe , Pascal von Wroblewsky and Reinhard Walter , with whom he also recorded. In 1985 he founded the big band Swinging Crew , which was stylistically based on Woody Herman , Buddy Rich and Thad Jones / Mel Lewis and existed until 1990. He also belonged to Hartmut Behrsing's Swing Quartet in Berlin . He has played with Hessel's Ragtime Band since 1994. Keitel also accompanied the actress and singer Gisela May for many years at concerts with songs by Bertolt Brecht and Erich Kästner .

Discographic notes

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 .
  • Rainer Bratfisch: Free tones. The jazz scene in the GDR . Ch.links, Berlin 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jazz in tails
  2. ↑ Hessel's Ragtime Band
personal data
SURNAME Keitel, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz drummer and orchestra leader
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Rockstedt
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 2009
Place of death Zeuthen