Helmut Weglinski

Helmut Weglinski (born January 4, 1925 in Frankfurt am Main , † 1996 in Cologne ) was a German jazz and entertainment musician ( violin ). In the 1950s, according to Jürgen Wölfer , the swing and pop violinist was considered the successor to Helmut Zacharias , who had turned away from jazz.

Weglinski studied at the Frankfurt University of Music in the master class of Alma Moodie . At the age of fifteen he played in the Rhein-Mainisches Landesorchester Frankfurt under Hermann Abendroth and on Radio Frankfurt . After the Second World War he turned to jazz . He appeared at the German Jazz Festival in 1955 and 1956 and played with Paul Kuhn as well as Albert and Emil Mangelsdorff . He led his own sextet, which included Flip Gehring and Bora Roković and which opened up to modern jazz . He also accompanied his ensemble Caterina Valente on tours. Since he couldn't make a living from jazz, he and his band performed light music on cruises ; then he played in ensembles of the Hessischer Rundfunk and appeared in the program Zum Blauen Bock . He made recordings for Amiga , EMI and Philips .

Lexical entries

• Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler: Reclams Jazzführer (= Reclams Universal Library. No. 10185/10196). Reclam, Stuttgart 1970, ISBN 3-15-010185-9 .
• 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 .