Heinz Cramer (guitarist)

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Heinz Cramer ( October 12, 1920 in Berlin ) was a German jazz , orchestra and studio musician ( guitar ).

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Cramer played in the post-war period in Berlin a. a. with Eddie Unger and his soloists ("Mundharmonika-Eddi"), from 1947 with Kurt Hohenberger , with whose orchestra he recorded for Amiga , and also in the Helmuth Wernicke Trio. In 1948 he was involved in Rex Stewart's Hot Club Berlin session . He then moved to West Berlin , where he worked in the RIAS dance orchestra . He also played with Eugen Henkel and the Helmut Zacharias jazz ensemble in 1950, and from 1952 also with Kurt Widmann , Rolf Kühn and Macky Kasper . In 1960 he accompanied the singer Inge Brandenburg (" Lover Man ") with the Werner Müller Big Band .

In the mid-1960s Cramer (in a quartet with Adi Feuerstein , Jean Warland and Heinz Niemeyer ) accompanied the singer Hildegard Knef on her tours. As a member of the Günter Noris Quintet, he also took part in their album Die Neue Knef - Tournee Live ( HörZu , 1966). He worked as a session musician in the 1970s a. a. with Reinhard Mey ( Mein Achtel Lorbeerblatt , 1972), Schobert & Black ( Well, it's us , 1974), Ulrich Roski ( That is how nature wanted it , 1978) and Udo Jürgens ( Just a smile , 1979). In later years he worked in the Bavarian jazz and fusion scene. In the field of jazz he was involved in 33 recording sessions from 1946 to 1960.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Radio Swiss Jazz database gives the date of birth of Heinz von Cramer , however
  2. ^ RIAS Berlin: a radio station in a divided city: programs and people - texts, images, documents , ed. by Herbert Kundler, Gabriele Bukinac, Jutta Ursula Kroening. Berlin: D. Reimer, 1994
  3. ^ Daniela Sannwald: Hildegard Knef: an artist from Germany . Bertz + Fischer, 2005 ISBN 978-3-86505-167-7
  4. ↑ Tom Lord: Jazz Discography (online), accessed November 18, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Cramer, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz and studio musician
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin