Fritz Stamer (pianist)

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Fritz "Fred" Stamer (also Fred Steamer , * around 1900; † unknown) was a German jazz and entertainment musician ( piano , celesta ).

Live and act

Stamer played his first solo record on the Acme record label in 1924 ("Rufeneddy"); in the same year with the formation Acme Five the title "Worried". In his main occupation he was the manager of a music shop at this time. In the 1930s he worked in Paris with Josephine Baker and Le Melodic Jazz du Casino de Paris , in Berlin in the orchestras of Kurt Engel , Otto Stenzel and in a duo with Georg Haentzschel , from 1939 with Ernst Weiland . In 1942 he accompanied the singer Helga Wille (“Mamatschi” / “Briefe aus der Heimat”, Telefunken A19465); In 1943 he recorded for gramophone under his own name (“I'm waiting for you” and “Don't worry about it”). Fritz Stamer played one of the last records of the Third Reich in early 1945 with "Man doesn't like to be alone in the night" (from the Marika Rökk color film The Woman of My Dreams from 1944). In the field of jazz he was involved in 22 recording sessions between 1924 and 1943.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 60 years of recorded jazz 1917–1977 , Volume 10, ed. by Walter Bruyninckx, 1980. p. 706.
  2. ↑ Probably with Eric Borchard (alto saxophone), Fred Stamer (p) and Hans Sagawe (banjo)
  3. ↑ a b c Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed October 3, 2016)
  4. ^ Michael Danzi, Rainer E. Lotz: American musician in Germany, 1924–1939: Memoirs of the Jazz, Entertainment, and Movie World of Berlin during the Weimar Republic and the Nazi Era, and in the United States . N. Ruecker, 1986
  5. ^ Information on gramophone records
personal data
SURNAME Stamer, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stamer, Fred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz and entertainment musician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1900
DATE OF DEATH after 1943