Heinz Sandberg

Heinz-Wilhelm Sandberg (* 1920 or 1921) was a German jazz and entertainment musician ( accordion , piano ) and band leader .

Live and act

Sandberg, who was initially a member of the Hitler Youth , began working in Berlin in 1936 in Eugen Wolff's orchestra , on whose recordings for Odeon he participated. During the war years he led his own chamber dance orchestra , with which he recorded titles such as “Grand Hotel”, “Small Fish”, “Foxtrot Study” and “I call all women 'Baby'” for Imperial in 1943. His studio band probably consisted of Rinus van den Broek , Fritz Petz , Nino Impallomeni (trumpet), Willibald Winkler , Erich Boehme (trombone), Benny de Weille , Teddy Kleindin (alto saxophone, clarinet), Detlev Lais , Helmuth Friedrich (tenor saxophone), Primo Angeli (Piano), Meg Tevelian (guitar), Otto Tittmann (bass) and Harry van Dyk (drums). In the field of jazz he was involved in 20 recording sessions between 1936 and 1943. In 1944 he played swing numbers like "Cotton Pickers' Congregation" ( Sid Phillips ) under the harmless title Rhythmic Study, A, B, C in the Hamburg bars Faun and Trichter Bar with Margot Friedländer and a swing band made up of Czech musicians . During this time, Sandberg was suspected by the Nazi authorities of having played “unrestrained” swing in front of German soldiers in occupied Norway . At the beginning of 1944 he was arrested by the Gestapo and transferred to the Wehrmacht ; in August 1944 he was expelled from the Reich Music Chamber . He survived military service unscathed; in the post-war period he ran a concert agency in Hamburg under the pseudonym Charlie Sanders .

Web links

• Heinz Sandberg with his chamber dance orchestra at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Michael H. Kater : Daring Game: Jazz in National Socialism . Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1995, p. 340ff.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed September 10, 2016)