Ernst Weiland

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Ernst "Bimbo" Weiland (* 1910, † 1943 or 1944) was a German drummer and bandleader of jazz - and popular music , of his appearances as "Bimbo the trick drummer" and "The trick drummer Ernst Weiland" in revues like something crazy in the Berlin Scala was known.

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From 1936 Weiland played in the “Scala” orchestra under the direction of Otto Stenzel , with whom the first recordings were made (“The Music Goes' Round and Around”). He also worked a. a. also with the piano duo Heinz Kück & Bill Norman ( Kück & Billy , 1938). Partly under his own name, but also under his pseudonym “Bimbo der Tricktrummler” of the Berlin “Scala” and his orchestra, he played for Odeon from May 1938 with studio musicians such as Carl and Kurt Hohenberger , Franz Thon , Kurt Wege , Mike Danzi and Paul Henkel mostly swinging dance music and hot swing on records. The entertainment and tea dance interpretations include recordings such as Helmut Garden's South American-inspired title “Mondnacht auf Cuba” (1939).

In Weiland's ensemble, Fritz Petz (tp), Erhard Krause (tb), Benny de Weille (as, cl), Helmuth Friedrich (ts), Fritz Stamer (p), Mike Danzi (git), Conny Ahlers (kb) played. “Peng” (O-31697), “But nobody wants to be faithful” ( Fritz Weber / Ralph Maria Siegel, O-31592), “Mondnacht auf Cuba” (O-31592), “Drum egg” and “FD 79 - Eccentric Foxtrot "(O-31675), last on February 21, 1943 (" What can the moon do for this? ", O-31782). In the field of jazz he was involved in 22 recording sessions between 1936 and 1943. a. also as a companion of the humorist Carl Napp ( ... and in the evening to La Scala ) and with Theo Reuter (1940).

Weiland was killed in action on the Eastern Front .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael H. Kater : Different Drummers: Jazz in the Culture of Nazi Germany . 2003.
  2. ↑ Note on the label of the record Peng , Odeon O31697
  3. ↑ 60 years of recorded jazz 1917–1977. Volume 7, 1980, pp. K-366.
  4. ↑ These included the titles “Come and dance” / “Sweet little Henriett '!” (By Gerhard Winkler , O-31508), “Why wasn't I born rich?” ( Horst Kudritzki / Ralph Maria Siegel ) / “Ten o'clock ten "(O-31554)," FD 79 "(from Helmut Gardens , 0-31675a)
  5. ↑ "Bimbo the trick drummer" of the Berlin "Scala" with his dance orchestra: "Mondnacht auf Cuba", music: Helmut Gardens, text: Alfred Klabunde, O-31592b
  6. ↑ According to Tom Lord Jazz discography
  7. ^ Photo from 1941. FD 79 was the name of an express train from Berlin to Hamburg. See note at Grammophon-Platten.de
  8. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed September 4, 2016)
  9. ↑ "Trick drummers in the east fallen. Ernst Weiland, the former conductor of La Scala, fell on the Eastern Front. Called by the Berliners 'Bimbo with a trick drum' ”. Quoted from Nachrichten für die Truppe, Volume 2 , 1973, p. 31.
personal data
SURNAME Weiland, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weiland, Bimbo (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German drummer and band leader of jazz and popular music
DATE OF BIRTH around 1910
DATE OF DEATH 1943 or 1944