Dresden sextet

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Dresden Sextet (Dresden Septet)
General information
Genre (s) Beat , jazz rock
founding 1969
resolution 1973
Founding members
Konrad Burkert
Rudolf Ulbricht
Hans von Schrödter
Axel Thieme
Wolfgang Otto
Dina Straat
former members
Piano , guitar, vocals, bass guitar
 Gerhard Zachar
Keyboard , vocals
 Franz Bartzsch
Alto saxophone, flute, vocals
 Till goof
guitar
 Jürgen Heinrich
Bass guitar
 Jörg Dobbersch
singing
 Dina Straat
singing
 Bernd Schlund
Jürgen Kotzsch
Gerhard Lau
Keyboard
 Wolfgang Scheffler
trombone
 Manfred Nytsch
singing
 Christiane Ufholz

The Dresden Sextet was a band founded in Dresden in 1969 . From 1971 she called herself the Dresden Septet after reshuffling .

history

Dresden sextet

At the beginning of 1969, six students from the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music founded the Dresden Sextet at their place of study. They included drummer Konrad Burkert, saxophonist and flutist Rudolf Ulbricht, bass guitarist Hans von Schrödter, guitarist Axel Thieme, alto saxophonist Wolfgang Otto and Dina Straat as a singer. At first the sextet played song-like beat music with German lyrics. Shortly after the band was founded, the singer, guitarist and keyboardist Gerhard Zachar joined the band and became its leader. In 1969 some titles were produced on the radio of the GDR . Von Schrödter, Thieme and Otto left the Dresden sextet a short time later and were replaced by Till Patzer (alto saxophone, flute, vocals), guitarist Jürgen Heinrich and bass guitarist Jörg Dobbersch. In 1970 the piece Vo Thi Lin was recorded, which contains a theme by Robert Schumann and took up a position in the Vietnam War at the time . In 1971 four of the band's tracks were released on the Amiga long-playing record Dann ist du da .

In the same year, the band was banned from appearing in the Leipzig district for an unlimited period of time because they had violated the 60/40 rule .

Dresden septet

In the same year, the Dresden sextet was supplemented by the singer Bernd Schlund, who came from the Butlers , the keyboardist Franz Bartzsch , the trumpeter Jürgen Kotzsch (both from the Gerhard Stein combo ) and the trombonist Gerhard Lau, while Dina Straat and Jörg Dobbersch left the band. Dobbersch switched to the Klaus Lenz Band . From then on the band called itself the Dresden Septett. Bartzsch joined the Horst Krüger Band in 1972 . Zachar took over the position of bass guitarist from Dobbersch. Wolfgang Scheffler joined the team as keyboard player, while Manfred Nytsch replaced Gerhard Lau in 1972. The singer Christiane Ufholz joined the band in 1972. The Dresden Septet mainly played jazz rock .

On January 23, 1973, the Dresden Septet became the Lift group . In addition to Gerhard Zachar, Konrad Burkert, Jürgen Heinrich, Till Patzer, Bernd Schlund, Manfred Nytsch and Wolfgang Scheffler from the Dresden septet belonged to the newly founded band. It still exists today (as of 2009), but without members of the former Dresden Septet.

Discography

LPs (compilations)

  • 1971: Then you are there (four songs, Amiga )
  • 1972: Rhythm '71 ( you , Amiga)
  • 1972: On the Way to You ( She , Nova)

CDs (compilations)

  • 1998: DT64-Story Vol. 15 ( Vo Thi Lin , Amiga)
  • 1999: Amiga rock rarities ( Denkste , Amiga)
  • 2000: She's Not There ( One day in September , Amiga)

Singles

  • 1971: You (A-side, with Dina Straat , Amiga)
  • 1971: Vo Thi Lin (B-side of the DT64 music studio single No. 1, with Electra combo , Amiga)

See also

literature

  • Jürgen Balitzki: Electra. Lift. Stern Combo Meißen: Stories from the Saxon three . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-89602-323-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Balitzki: Electra. Lift. Stern Combo Meißen: Stories from the Saxon three . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-89602-323-0 , p. 45
  2. ↑ Information about the band on ostbeat.de ( memento from June 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 4, 2014