Dietrich Geldern
Dietrich Geldern (born August 17, 1937 in Frankfurt am Main as Dietrich Geldmacher ) is a German musician ( clarinet , alto saxophone , initially also guitar ) of swing jazz and mainstream jazz . He lives in the Taunus near Wiesbaden. His brother is the Mülheim light artist Klaus Geldmacher ; his daughter is the Wiesbaden author Christiane Geldmacher .
Live and act
Geldern has been active as a musician since 1954; initially in a jazz quartet with Heiner Mückenberger. In 1955 he founded Burgundy Street Paraders (Frankfurt) with Roland Schneider . In 1957 he was a member of the Bucktown Six in Wiesbaden (with Herbert Kolezceck p, Manfred Stapput tp, Dieter Kaufmann bj, Hermey Kopp dm, Bernd Grosse and Dieter Zingel b). Geldern was honored as the best German clarinetist at the Düsseldorf Amateur Festival in 1958 . He also performed with Mezz Mezzrow and Memphis Slim in Paris . Then he played with the Benno Walldorf Blues Combo . In 1966 he founded his own band, which included guitarist Ruud van Duijse, vibraphonist Flip Gehring and Armin Schaefer, Jann Meyer and Willi Eberhardt on bass and Ata Berk , Bernhard Gauer and Wolfgang Wüsteney as drummers.
In addition, Geldern worked as a speaker for record collectors in the German Jazz Federation and wrote jazz contributions for the Brockhaus Encyclopedia . In 1968 he turned to Dixieland and then concentrated on his Swingtett , in which musicians like Klaus Lohfink and guests like Siggi Gerhard played. He replaced Wedeli Köhler in the Mike Reinhardt Sextet ; In 1988 he played in the group of Daweli Reinhardt . During this time, he was principal of a school in Bad Schwalbach .
In recent years Geldern has also performed with the Theimann-Geldern Quartet . He was also touring the world with the Lufthansa jazz band; also successively member of the New Orleans Jazz Babies (Frankfurt), the Dixieland Swing Company (Wiesbaden) and the Woog City Stompers (Darmstadt until 2012).
Geldern can be heard on records with the Bucktown Six , James W. Parks, Benno Walldorf, Benny Waters and his own Swingtett.
bibliography
- 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 .
- Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler: Reclams Jazzführer (= Reclams Universal Library. No. 10185/10196). Reclam, Stuttgart 1970, ISBN 3-15-010185-9 (5th edition, 2000, ISBN 3-15-010464-5 ).
- Jürgen Schwab : The Frankfurt Sound. Sozietäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004 ISBN 3-7973-0888-4
- Wolfgang Zöll, Esther Walldorf, Helga Boss-Stenner: Jazz o`mania, Sozietäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010 ISBN 978-3-7973-1224-2 .
- Klaus Krüger: Fox on 78, issue 27 Winter 2013 No. ISSN 0948-0412 , page 86 ff.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jazz legends play in Rödelheim Frankfurter Neue Presse , September 18, 2013
- ↑ Daweli Reinhardt / Joachim Hennig: 100 years of music by the Reinhardts - Daweli tells his life. Dietmar Fölbach publishing house, Koblenz 2003
- ↑ Theimann funds Quartet: Swing in pure culture
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Geldern, Dietrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Geldmacher, Dietrich (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 17, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |