Fritz Trippel

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Fritz “Little Fritz” Trippel (born December 10, 1937 in Chur ; † July 25, 2010 ) was a Swiss jazz pianist and band leader .

Live and act

In the late 1950s, Trippel led his own bands such as Fritz Trippel's Swiss Sounds , with which the first recordings were made. He has also played with the Harlem Ramblers, Mr. Adams' Jazzopators , Albert Nicholas and Nelson Williams & The New Orleans Wild Cats . He formed a trio with Henry Owen and Rolf Cizmek , with whom he recorded an EP with four titles like Annabelle in the early 1960s . In the 1960s he also led the Dixieland formation Little Fritz and His Friends , to which Karl Theodor Geier , Oscar Klein and Wallace Bishop belonged and with which he recorded three albums, Coffee Time at The Atlantis ( Philips ), Dreamy and Verliebt ( under the band name The Martinos , 1965) and Whiskey Time (Fontana). In the 1970s he played a. a. in Lachie Thomson's New Whispering Gold Orchestra and with the K&K Dixielanders ( New Orleans Function ), with Oscar Klein, Roy Crimmins , Werner Keller , Isla Eckinger , Rolf Rebmann ; In the following decades he performed in Chur at jam sessions with Wild Bill Davison , Kai Winding , Hansjörg Uttinger , Rolf Cizmek and Barrett Deems as well as with the singer Angela Brown .

Trippel lived and made music for years in Asia and repeatedly in America, but always returned to his home in Graubünden . He has been promoting regional musical life since the 1980s and performed regularly , especially in Graubünden and Ascona , until shortly before his death . The last recordings were made in 2001 with Ursula Dascher . In the field of jazz he was involved in 28 recording sessions between 1957 and 2001.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz "Little Fritz" Trippel , Biographical data in the music database of Radio Swiss Jazz , accessed on April 26, 2017
  2. ↑ a b Jazz pianist “Little Fritz” Trippel died , obituary in the Tages-Anzeiger , July 29, 2010.
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography , West Vancouver, Lord Music Reference, distributed by Cadence Jazz Books, Redwood New York.
personal data
SURNAME Trippel, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trippel, Little Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Chur
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 2010