Johannes Rediske

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Johannes Rediske (born August 11, 1926 in Berlin ; † January 22, 1975 there ) was a German jazz musician ( guitar , composition , band leader ).

Life

Rediske studied piano , organ and violin , but was self-taught as a guitarist. In 1947 he was involved in founding the Berlin 5 Swingsters . He worked mainly in the jazz clubs of West Berlin and for the AFN . In 1950 he expanded his quartet , which he had founded two years earlier, into a legendary quintet , which, in addition to himself, included Lothar Noack (cl, ts), Alex Spychalski (p), Sönke Tuffner (until 1949), Manfred Behrendt (b) and the drummers Georg Bremer, Joe Glaser (from 1950), Heinz Niemeyer (from 1955) and Hans Dieter Taubert (from 1958) belonged. Between 1950 and 1964, the Johannes Rediske Quintet performed regularly in the West Berlin jazz cellar Die Bathtub and was considered the busiest jazz group in the mid-1950s, especially because it was in great demand from North American guest soloists.

Rediske popularized the George Shearing sound despite its eclectic borrowings from cool jazz, and from 1953 onwards was repeatedly rated the best German jazz guitarist in German jazz polls. In 1953 the group received the Great German Record Prize ; From 1954 she took part in the German Jazz Festival in Frankfurt am Main several times . In 1956 he appeared with his quintet as a star guest at the press ball in the Kurhaus Bad Neuenahr .

Guests from all over the world crowded into clubs like the bathtub , including Louis Armstrong , Ella Fitzgerald , Caterina Valente and Count Basie , to see him live with his quintet. Rediske also worked as a soloist with the orchestras Erwin Lehn and Kurt Edelhagen . The quintet provided the background music for some radio plays, such as in 1956 under the direction of Hans-Martin Majewski in the five-part series “ On the green beach of the Spree ” by director Gert Westphal . From the end of the 1950s he also wrote film and theater music, for example for the films Limited Weekend , Comrade Münchhausen and The Murderer with the Silk Scarf . From the 1960s onwards he only appeared sporadically in public. From 1951 Rediske was involved in record productions under his name, but also those with Kurt Widmann or as a companion to Wolfgang Neuss .

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SURNAME Rediske, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz guitarist and band leader
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 22nd January 1975
Place of death Berlin