Horst Wittich
Horst Wittich (born November 7, 1932 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German jazz musician ( trumpet , orchestral direction, guitar, bass).
Live and act
Wittich, who came to jazz through broadcasts of the AFN and already played jazz as a student at Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium , founded the Kangaroo Club as a law student at the Goethe University in Frankfurt . There he appeared from 1953 with his Merton Street Dixielanders . At the same time he founded the Frankfurter Schülerring Dance Orchestra, which made music based on arrangements by Willy Berking . Between 1956 and 1965 he played with the Merton Street Paraders on "Riverboat Shuffles", which he organized himself. He developed into the "central figure" of the Dixieland style in Frankfurt.
Wittich also played with amateur bands in the clubs of the US Army. In 1962 he founded the Happy Oldtime Swingers , who played regularly for ten years at the Jazzlife Podium in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen ; the band was still active in 2019 under the name HappytimeSwingers . With his own band he appeared in the film Without U no A (1967). From 2004 he organized a monthly jam session in the Wiesbaden Walhalla Theater .
literature
- Jürgen Schwab : The Frankfurt sound. A city and its jazz history (s). Societäts-Verlag. Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-7973-0888-4 .
- 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
- Horst Wittich at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Reimer von Essen / Mirjam Sohar The history of jazz in Frankfurt. Jazzforschung 5 (1973), p. 95
- ↑ concert announcement
- ↑ Horst Wittich in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wittich, Horst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz musician (trumpet, orchestra conductor) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 7, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |