Elf Meadow Ramblers
| Elf Meadow Ramblers | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Dresden , Germany |
| Genre (s) | jazz |
| founding | 1955 |
| Website | www.elbmeadowramblers.de |
| Founding members | |
| Konrad "Säuge" Müller (until 1960) | |
| Dieter Wagner (until 1962) | |
| Dieter "Es-Alt" Kluge (until 2011) | |
| Gert Hausmann (until 1985) | |
| Wolfgang Dehler (until 1955) | |
| Heinz Kirschner (until 1955) | |
| Current occupation | |
| Frank Bartsch (since 1983) | |
trombone |
Thomas Poscharsky (since 2018) |
Clarinet, tenor saxophone |
Friedemann "Fritz" Seidlitz (since 2001) |
Alto saxophone, baritone saxophone |
Christian Patzer (since 2011) |
piano |
Jürgen Umbreit (since 2001) |
Guitar, banjo |
Ronald Boldt (since 1976) |
| Sina Rien (since 2012) | |
Drums |
Stefan Schrammel (since 2001) |
| former members | |
Trumpet |
Dieter Modrakowski (1960–1973) |
Trumpet, vocals, guitar |
Hubert Weier (1973–1983) |
trombone |
Hermann Henke (1956–1961) |
trombone |
Dietmar "Tommy" Schlage (1962–1964) |
trombone |
Hans Hombsch (1964–1974) |
trombone |
Eberhard Lösch (1964–1974) |
Trombone, tuba
|
Henning Löber (1974–1983) |
trombone |
Rudolf Thiele (1983-2005) |
trombone |
Marc Hartmann (2005-2014) |
trombone |
Micha Winkler (2014-2018) |
clarinet |
Gerhard Koch (1956) |
clarinet |
Claus Oehler (1958–1961) |
Clarinet, soprano saxophone
|
Hermann Henke (1961–1971) |
Clarinet, tenor saxophone , arrangements
|
Klaus Schumann (1971-2013) |
piano |
Matthias Weiske (1985-1994) |
piano |
Ilka Kraske (1994-2000) |
Guitar, banjo |
Heinz Rebsch (1955-2013) |
double bass |
Peter Sterzel (1955) |
Double bass, helikon |
Lothar "Animus" Flögel (1955–1961) |
double bass |
Jürgen Schmidt (1961–1966) |
double bass |
Udo Franke (1966) |
Double bass, tuba |
Wilfried Matthäus (1966-2005) |
double bass |
Peter Rümmler (1971–1972) |
Drums, piano |
Ulf Eltze (1956–1957) |
Drums |
Karlheinz Drechsel (1957–1958) |
Drums |
Manfred Schulz (1958) |
Drums |
Achim Müller (1958–1960) |
Drums |
Hans-Georg "Samba" Werner (1960–2001) |
The Elb Meadow Ramblers is a combo that was founded in Dresden in 1955 and is still committed to traditional jazz today.
history
The band was founded on March 13, 1955 in the “Volksgaststätte Elbfrieden” of the allotment garden association Dresden- Johannstadt II, a converted former showman's car, also known as “Eis-Krause”. There the band played almost every Sunday morning until late in the afternoon until the end of 1956. Each of the musicians brought a few friends with them, so that from the day it was founded there were always far more musicians than fit into a Dixieland band. It took almost a year for a permanent cast to be established.
In 1956, the formation was already at the first jazz concert in Dresden with several groups, which took place in the Schillergarten ; in the summer of the same year there was a session with the Spree City Stompers around Hawe Schneider . From 1956 to 1959 the band performed every two weeks in the jazz cellar of the Parkhotel on the Weißen Hirsch . Since 1961 she also played on steamboat trips on the Elbe . In 1971 the formation performed in Berlin's Friedrichstadt-Palast and at the music days of the Leipzig district .
Since 1972 , the Ramblers have played again and again at the Dresden Dixieland Festival ; their appearances there are also broadcast on radio / television or documented on various records from the festival. In 1972 they also formed the core of the All Stars Dixieland Dresden . Furthermore, in 1981 they were involved in the opening of the Tonne jazz club , in which they also performed frequently. The band has been giving session concerts with foreign bands since the 1970s, such as the Szeged Oldtimers , Leningrad Dixieland , Old Timer Slany or the Bop Cats . She also went on tour; it performed in the Bulgarian Grabrowo as well as on the Wartburg or since 1990 in West Germany.
style
The multiple changes of musicians and increasing professionalism lead to the fact that the style of the Elb Meadow Ramblers changed. While in the first decades an original Dixieland jazz and then an instrumental hot jazz based on the revival sound in an octet line-up with banjo determined the sound, today the Elb Meadow Ramblers stand for a classic swing sound with double woodwinds and thus a total of four winds .
Discography
- 40 Years Elb Meadow Ramblers (1995)
- 45 years of Elb Meadow Ramblers (2000)
- 2010 Live (2011)
- on compilations
- Dixie in Dresden (Saxony Productions, 2001)
- Jazz in Germany. Volume 3 - A Fresh Wind: CD 7 (Bear Family 2008)
literature
- Rainer Bratfisch: Free tones: the jazz scene in the GDR . Berlin: Ch. Links-Verlag 2005, ISBN 3-86153-370-7 .
- Ulf Drechsel (ed.): Between the currents. Karlheinz Drechsel. My life with jazz. Greifenverlag 2011, ISBN 978-3-86939-005-5 .
- JohannStadtArchive: Fährgarten Johannstadt. Dresden 2018.
- Alexander Konrad Müller: 50 years of Elb Meadow Ramblers Dresden. Radebeul 2005/2010, private print.
- Klaus Wilk: Elb Meadow Ramblers . Radebeul: Notschriften Verlag 2015, ISBN 978-3-945481-19-6 .
Web links
- Web presence
- Elb Meadow Ramblers at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The addition "ice" in the name did not refer to the sale of ice cream, but to the rental of ice skates for the neighboring ice rink. Today the "Fährgarten Johannstadt" stands there.
- ↑ So on the samplers for the 10th, 30th, 31st, 35th and 42nd Festival.
- ↑ For this reason alone, it is inadmissible to classify the band as the "longest-serving amateur jazz band" in Germany, even if non-professional musicians have always played in the band. See Elb Meadow Ramblers (band portrait, MDR Sachsenradio) .