Engelbert Wrobel

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Engelbert Wrobel

Engelbert Wrobel (born November 19, 1959 in Dormagen ) is a German musician of traditional jazz and band leader. He plays the clarinet, soprano, alto and tenor saxophone.

Wrobel grew up in the evenings in the Eifel ( Düren district ) and first received clarinet lessons from his father. At first he played in the local wind orchestra. When I was 10 years old, I made my first appearance as a hand-made speaker in the carnival. At the age of sixteen he and his Happy Jazzmen won first prize at Jugend jazzt .

While studying classical clarinet at the Robert Schumann University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf , he became a member of Rod Mason's Hot Five in 1986 , with whom he toured Europe for more than three years. In 1989 he founded his own band with the Swing Society , which has also cooperated with Hazy Osterwald since 1998 . He is also active in projects such as the Three Tenors of Swing (with saxophone colleagues Antti Sarpila and Frank Roberscheuten ) and appears as a Benny Goodman soloist in the King of Swing Orchestra and with Frank Muschalle's trio . In the course of his career, Wrobel played with musicians such as Clark Terry , Harry Sweets Edison , Louis Bellson , Doc Cheatham , Chris Barber , Charly Antolini and Greetje Kauffeld .

Discography (selection)

  • Swing Society: Sophisticated Swing featuring Dan Barrett (2001)
  • Engelbert Wrobel's Hot Jazz 3 Meets Bob Barnard (2002)
  • Engelbert Wrobel´s Swing Society: Live in the Kulturhaus Kornwestheim (2004)
  • Swing Society feat. Antti Sarpila, Frank Roberscheuten: The Three Tenors of Swing (2006)
  • International Hot Jazz Quartet: Havin´ a Ball (2010, with Duke Heitger , Paolo Alderighi, Oliver Mewes )
  • Engelbert Wrobel's Swing Society: 20 Years (2010)
  • Three Tenors of Swing: On Stage (Click Records 2013, with Antti Sarpila, Frank Roberscheuten, Chris Hopkins , Rolf Marx , Ingmar Heller , Oliver Mewes)
  • Engelbert Wrobel, Nicki Parrott , Paolo Alderighi and Stephanie Trick: From Joplin to Jobim (Foxtrott 2015)

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personal data
SURNAME Wrobel, Engelbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wrobel, angel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Dormagen