Erwin Steinbacher

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Erwin Steinbacher (born July 15, 1903 ; † May 11, 1988 in Schlangenbad ) was a German jazz and entertainment musician ( tenor saxophone , also piano, violin, clarinet , vocals , arrangement ), composer and band leader .

Live and act

Steinbacher was already leading a silent film accompaniment orchestra when he was 15. He broke off his law studies: he belonged to numerous orchestras in Germany and abroad in the 1920s and early 1930s. Between 1935 and 1940 he made a number of records with his own studio orchestra for the Kristall, Elektrola and Grammophon labels, including his own compositions such as stage fright , mostly swing titles such as “Don't you think it's dangerous?” By Edmund Kötscher (Electrola 6581), dance music (“ Blue Butterfly ”), but also hits like“ Der Leiermann ”by Hans Arno Simon (Polydor 48176). In his formation u. a. Kurt and Carl Hohenberger , Karl Kutzer , Otto Türksch , Willy Berking , Erhard Krause , Hermann Plato , Teddy Kleindin , Kurt Schieke , Kurt Abraham , Adalbert Luczkowski , Walter Leschetitzky , Franz Mück , Hans Korseck , Rudi Wegener and Waldi Luczkowski . During the war Steinbacher played as a member of dance orchestras, among others with Theo Reuter , Otto Stenzel , the Troop Support Orchestra Paul von Beky and most recently shortly before the end of the war in Prague in the German Dance and Entertainment Orchestra under the direction of Willi Stech ("Powerhouse").

In the field of jazz he was involved in twelve recording sessions from 1935 to 1941. He also wrote numbers like “Schlacks und Bommel.” After the war he founded his own music publishing company and also went on tour in Europe with his own 12-man orchestra and his wife as a singer. From 1970 he retired to live in Schlangenbad.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A jazz musician of the same name played the violin and banjo with the Lanigiro Syncopating Melody Kings and Gregoire Nakchounian and His Russian North Star Orchestra in the 1920s .
  2. ↑ a b c d Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed September 6, 2016)
  3. ↑ The title was also taken up by Heinz Munsonius (Kristall 5202).
personal data
SURNAME Steinbacher, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz and entertainment musician
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1903
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1988
Place of death Snake bath