Gerd Husemann

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Gerd Husemann (born November 1921 in the Hanover district; † February 23, 1990 ) was a German jazz and entertainment musician ( tenor saxophone , flute , piccolo ).

Live and act

Husemann began playing the recorder and soon also the minstrel flute when he was eight . He spent part of his military service at the Army Music School in Bückeburg . After 1945 he played in various dance orchestras. He came to West Germany in 1949 with Jochen Brauer's sextet . From 1950 to 1952 he was part of Erwin Steinbacher's orchestra ; then he was active with Heinz Kretzschmar . In 1955 he recorded the tracks "Muskrat Ramble" and "March of the Bob Cats" with Kretzschmar and his Dixielanders. In 1957 Rolf Schneebiegl and Klaus Überall brought him to the Südwestfunk dance orchestra , where he initially worked under Eddie Sauter . In June 1958 he belonged to an all-star formation around Kenny Clarke , Zoot Sims , Hans Koller , Helmut Brandt and Peter Trunk , which held a studio session for Südwestfunk in the Baden-Baden studio. Shortly afterwards he was involved in another studio session by Hans Koller and his saxophone combo in Baden-Baden. During this time he also belonged to the original Black Forest musicians around Rolf Schneebiegl. In 1967 he took part in the recordings of Rolf-Hans Müller's radio orchestra with guest soloist Maynard Ferguson ( Trumpet Rhapsody , MPS). From the 1960s onwards, Husemann played mainly in the field of light music with Hubert Deuringer with his soloists and in Werner Baumgart 's Big Band Baden-Baden , 1983-90 with Ernst Mosch and his original Egerländer musicians , heard as a soloist on the piccolo in “Piccolobello” (LP Egerländer Solistenparade , 1990). He was also active in the town band Freistett.

Discographic notes

  • Lost Tapes: Zoot Sims: Baden-Baden, June 23, 1958
  • Werner Baumgart's Silversound Featuring Gerd Husemann (Trend, 1975)
  • Werner Baumgart and His Big Band Baden-Baden: Glenn Miller 2000 (Viking Record Company Ltd., 1974)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d The piccolo flute - forever silent. (No longer available online.) In: Mittelbadische Presse. February 26, 1990, archived from the original on March 17, 2016 ; accessed on February 24, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadtkapelle-freistett.de
  2. ↑ Oskar Haaf: When the gong struck ... Volume 2: Radio Olzog was my hobbyhorse , 1984.
  3. ↑ SWR Music ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.swrmusic.de
  4. ↑ Rolf Schneebiegl
  5. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed February 23, 2018)
  6. ^ Ernst Mosch musician database
personal data
SURNAME Husemann, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz and entertainment musician
DATE OF BIRTH November 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover district
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1990