Eddie Brunner

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Eddie Brunner (born July 19, 1912 in Zurich ; † July 18, 1960 there ) was a Swiss jazz saxophonist (tenor, alto), clarinetist and band leader of swing .

Career

In addition to learning the saxophone, Brunner also learned the piano and played in Zurich in 1929 in the amateur band “Varsity Seven”. After being in several dance orchestras, a. a. In 1931 he played with saxophonist René Dumont in Berlin and in 1933 with violinist Marek Weber, and in 1936/7 he became a member of the " Golden Seven ". From 1936 to 1939 he lived in Paris and did not return to Switzerland until the outbreak of war. In 1939 he was with Louis Bacon and then in the same year a member of the "Original Teddies" (as a soloist with the tenor saxophone) from Teddy Stauffer in Switzerland, which he took over from him in 1941 when Stauffer went to America. There played Henry Mason , also briefly Robert Sherman . In 1948 he converted the teddies into a sextet and also played a lot as a studio musician in the 1950s. He started recording as a leader occasionally from 1938 and also in the 1940s, while recording a lot with the teddies. He made u. a. with Bill Coleman , Willie Lewis , Glyn Paque , the French jazz trumpeter Philippe Brun , Lale Andersen and the Peters Sisters recordings. From around mid-1948 Eddie was hired by the then head of the entertainment orchestra, Cedric Dumont, as sound engineer at the Basel radio studio.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Three African American sisters in a singing trio, who u. a. performed with Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington , but then relocated to Europe.

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SURNAME Brunner, Eddie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss jazz saxophonist and clarinetist
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1960
Place of death Zurich