Helmut Plattner (jazz musician)

Helmut Plattner (born April 11, 1940 in Sieghartskirchen ; † September 24, 2016 ibid.) Was an Austrian jazz musician ( trumpet , also soprano saxophone , composition). Initially committed to Dixieland and swing jazz , he also worked in the fusion sector from the late 1970s .

Live and act

Plattner learned the trumpet as a self-taught fan of Louis Armstrong . From 1960 he played part-time Dixieland and Swing in the Studio Combo Krems . In 1980 he founded the family band Plattner & Plattners Jazz Corporation , in which he appeared with his sons Bernhard (trombone) and Christian Plattner (clarinet, saxophone) and also toured the FRG and GDR; In 1982 the band played an album for Wildcat ; their appearance at the Dixieland Festival Dresden 1983 was documented on an Amiga record in 1984 . Then he led the group Plattner & Co. and the Blueswing Big Band.

Plattner has been part of the Original Storyville Jazzband Vienna since 1996 , with whom he has also released CDs as a trumpeter and soprano saxophonist. He also played with Franz Bilik and his Brogressiv Schrammeln . He can also be heard on albums by Atlas and Rudi Staeger. As a composer (Papa's Rag, College Blues, Plattner's Blues, Cumberland Boogie) he shows a preference for traditional forms of jazz.

Lexical entries

• Uwe Harten: Plattner, Helmut. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 .
• Jürgen Wölfer : Jazz in Germany. The encyclopedia. All musicians and record companies from 1920 until today. Hannibal, Höfen 2008, ISBN 978-3-85445-274-4 .

Web links

• Helmut Plattner at Discogs (English)