Heinz Batjer

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Carlo-Heinz Bätjer (* 1907 ; † 1983 ) was a German jazz and entertainment musician ( piano , also organ ) and band leader .

Bätjer, who came from Hamburg, directed a dance orchestra in the 1930s that played in the ballroom of Berlin's Femina-Palast , as well as in well-known nightclubs such as the Latin Quarter, Pompeii and Bajadere . Under his own name ( Heinz Bätjer with his soloists or Heinz Bätjer and His Swing Orchestra ) he recorded two swing tracks in 1938, the number "Take Another Guess", popular at the time by Ella Fitzgerald / Chick Webb, and the Phil Boutelje track " China Boy ”for Odeon , which were only released in Sweden on the Grand label. In his band played Georg buses (trumpet), Ernst Höllerhagen (clarinet), Kurt Doll (tenor saxophone), Tabor Divekey (guitar, vocals), Rudi Wegener (double bass) and Harry van Dyk (drums). Batjer also played the Hammond organ .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Horst Heinz Lange: Jazz in Germany : the German jazz chronicle up to 1960 . G. Olms, 1996, p. 114
  2. ↑ By Murray Mencher , Charles Newman, Al Sherman; recorded in Berlin, April 9, 1938 (Tur 5062 - Grand 038)
  3. ↑ Grand 058 die number: Tur 5063
  4. ↑ The two titles were re-released on the compilations Swinging Ballroom Berlin (Emarcy, 1999) and Der Jazz in Deutschland Volume 2: Die Swing-Jahre ( Bear Family Records , 2007).
  5. ↑ Also Ted Düveke; he was from the United States. See biography of Axel Skouby
  6. ↑ The Musician, Volumes 9-11. German Music Association, 1956
personal data
SURNAME Batjer, Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bätjer, Carlo-Heinz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz and entertainment musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1907
DATE OF DEATH 1983