Jerry Šenfluk

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Jaromír "Jerry" Šenfluk (born March 17, 1946 in Prague ; † September 2019 ) was a Czech jazz musician ( clarinet ).

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Šenfluk comes from a family of musicians; his mother was a pianist, his father a cellist. Between 1952 and 1960 he completed a classical music education in piano playing and elementary music theory ; He had clarinet lessons from 1959 to 1961 with Karel Dlouhy and then until 1967 at the Prague Conservatory of Music. He came to swing through his mentor, who was a Benny Goodman fan, and through his father (as a record collector) . He made his first appearance at the age of 16 when he was playing a jam session at the International Jazz Festival in Prague. He then gained his first musical experience in the Cats Jazz Band and the Jazz Fiddlers .

In 1968 he played on the Czechoslovak Radio and during this time became an editorial assistant for the music magazine Melodie . In 1969 he performed at the jazz festival in San Sebastian; with the orchestra of the State Theater in Aussig. He then moved to Berlin and toured West Germany with Albert Nicholas . In the early 1970s he taught clarinet at the Steglitz Music School. In 1974 he presented the album From East to West and worked with Sid Kucera ; in West Germany he performed with Freddie Kohlman and from 1975 to 1977 with the swing quartet Savoy Gang . In 1985 he founded the Hallmark Swingtet in Berlin and worked for radio and television. From 1985 to 1990 he worked in London a. a. with Al Casey and Max Collie's Rhythm Aces (with whom he also toured in Europe) as well as with Mick Pyne , Nils Solberg , John Rees-Jones and Rex Bennett . In 1991 he founded the band Capital Swing ; he also played with Yves "Little Fats" Guyot and Eric Luter . Between 1991 and 1994 he had hotel engagements in Switzerland, and in 1993 radio appearances on BBC 2 ( Jazz Notes ). In 1995 his album We Swing - Take It from Me was released , followed by Swing Express (1997). From Upper Franconia he worked with Andy Lawrence , Herbert Christ , Keith Smith and again with Max Collie from 2003 . From 2009 he performed with Vano Bamberger & Band and at Bingen in 2011 he swings with his Capital Swing .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b The International Who's Who in Popular Music 2002 , edited by Andy Gregory. Europa Publications Taylor & Francis, 2002, p. 460
  2. ↑ Report of death by the Darmstadt Jazz Institute (message from Trevor Richards )
  3. ^ Vano Bamberger & Band. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Capital Swing (Facebook)
personal data
SURNAME Šenfluk, Jerry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Šenfluk, Jaromír
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH September 2019