Hawe Schneider

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Hawe Schneider (born April 25, 1930 in Leipzig as Hans-Wolf Schneider ; † July 17, 2011 ) was a German jazz musician ( trombone , vocals ) and jazz journalist. In the 1950s and 1960s he was one of the most important band leaders in German hot jazz .

Live and act

Schneider initially played the accordion and the violin ; he founded a swing ensemble with which he came first in a music competition in Leipzig . In 1950 he switched to the trombone . In the following year Schneider founded the Feetwarmers , which soon became the Spree City Stompers . He played with them until 1952 in the Kajüte , a cellar of a completely ruined apartment building at the back of the Schöneberg town hall . After the cabin was closed , Schneider and the band moved into the Eierschale pub in 1953 , which he ran until 1968. The egg shell was next to the tub one of the most popular Berlin music venues of that time; international stars such as Louis Armstrong , Ella Fitzgerald , Duke Ellington and Kid Ory performed there. In the meantime, Schneider toured Germany in 1956 with Wild Bill Davison and the Dixieland All Stars (which also included Werner Rehm , Horst Mutterer, Dieter Süverkrüp , Heino Ribbert and Thomas Keck). From 1957 he appeared in the music program of German feature films with Bibi Johns , Peter Alexander and Horst Frank as well as in numerous television shows.

In 1961, Hawe Schneider and his Spree City Stompers were able to place themselves in the German hit parade: With the Dixieland version of Walter Kollo's ballad by the mass murderer Fritz Haarmann , Warte, wait just a while , they reached 10th place as the highest position and held themselves overall 20 weeks in the German single charts. His title Brigitte Bardot also reached number 12 in the German charts shortly afterwards. With his band he toured Western Europe , Poland and Yugoslavia and in 1966 also through Africa . For a long time he published the Berlin Jazz magazine and worked as a jazz expert freelance for several newspapers, specialist magazines and radio stations.

For personal reasons he left Berlin in 1968 and dissolved his band. For the next few years he worked as the director of the car museum in Nettelstedt and was the organizer and participant of vintage car rallies in Germany, France , Great Britain , Sweden and Italy . In 1971 he moved to Lenzkirch in the Black Forest , where he worked for the Badische Zeitung and founded the band Evergreen Juniors . In 1981 he was invited to the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in the USA , where he a. a. performed with Benny Waters and Preston Jackson . He later went on tour with Hawes' jazz band in Germany. Recordings with Lutz Eikelmann followed in 2001 . At the Oslo Jazz Festival in 2003 he performed with Herb Geller ; in the same year he also played with Martin Breinschmid and Frank Roberscheuten . His last appearance was in 2007 with the Black Forest Jazz Band .

Works

Discographic notes

  • The German jazz legend Hawe Schneider Vol. 1 (1961, 2001)
  • 7 "vinyl. Hawe Schneider & his Spree City Stompers - Alabama Jubilee / Bonaparte's Retreat. (Vogue 45-858) 1960's (?)

Book publications

  • ... and swing in the evening: a book full of jazz, not just for Hinterzarten fans ; ISBN 3-924838-03-8 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Obituary in: Badische Zeitung , July 21, 2011
  2. ↑ Elmar Schütze The egg is peeled. In: Berliner Zeitung , December 30, 2004
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Hawe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schneider, Hans-Wolf (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician and jazz journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 2011