Klaus Lohfink

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Klaus Lohfink (born November 24, 1938 in Darmstadt ) is a German jazz trombonist, horn player and saxophonist.

Life

Lohfink began taking piano lessons at the State Music School in Darmstadt at the age of eight. At the age of 16 he got a slide trombone , which he learned self-taught . A few years later a valve trombone , a baritone horn and later an alto saxophone were added.

In his early youth, Klaus Lohfink had found access to jazz music through the American soldier broadcaster AFN . Since 1957 he has played in a jazz band Dixieland in Darmstadt . In 1961 he then moved to Frankfurt to join the Swingcats (Jazz Festival Winner Düsseldorf 1961), which were directed by Roland Schneider . In 1964 he switched to the Two Beat Stompers founded by Günter Boas , where he replaced the trombonist and pianist Friggi Hoffmann. At that time, the band played alongside band leader Werner Rehm (tp), Emil Mangelsdorff (cl), Joki Freund (p) and (tuba), Ata Berk (dr).

In the period that followed, Lohfink played briefly in various formations, for example in the Darmstadt Hartmut Reeb Quintet. At the end of the 1960s he then joined the Dietrich Geldern Swingtett . After Dietrich Geldern left , he was one of the founders of the Frankfurt Hot Swingers . The founding members were Georg Klauer (dr), Dieter Zingel (b), Werner Sahm (p), Rolf Hetebrüg (tp), Klaus Lohfink (tb), Reinhard Diegel (as). In the following years there was a lively change of staff, including Loni Abt (tba) Sousaphon ), Peter Beyerer (bj), Dieter Blesing (b), Herbie Hess (p) / (cl), Rolf Kulcke (dr) and a changing one Jazz style. After Roland Schneider returned to Frankfurt, he joined the Hot Swingers as a pianist . Then there were Ata Berk (dr) and Jo Schomann (b). Gustl Mayer (ts), Klaus Lohfink (tb), Herbie Hess (cl) / (ts) and Rolf Hetebrüg (tp) played in the frontline . Stylistically, the band turned to a swinging Dixieland and more modern mainstream swing. Roland Schneider acted as arranger. The band appeared as a permanent formation at the “Inventors' Exchange” on Hessischer Rundfunk television and for several years at the International Radio Exhibition in Berlin.

With the band Lohfink accompanied a number of well-known vocal interpreters such as Bill Ramsey , Joan Faulkner , Peter Petrel , Reinhard Mey . In the years that followed, there were sporadic changes in personnel through Conny Jackel (tp), Peter "Sputnik" Lange (tp), Dominique Chancon (cl) / (sax), Gerd Sondermann (dr), John Oslowski (bar). Klaus Lohfink remained a member of the band from the founding of the "Hot Swingers" until they were dissolved in the late 1980s. Then he played as a freelancer all over Germany. He was among others sideman of Benny Bailey , Wild Bill Davison , Peanuts Hucko and Benny Waters .

At the beginning of the 1990s he joined the Hanau band Sugarfoot Stompers and stayed there for about twelve years. He then switched to Klaus Koop Kwintett with Klaus Koop (tp) and Jochen Brauer (cl) / (sax). In addition, he also played at the Blue Jazzniks with Siggi Gerhard (cl) / (sax), Heiner Franz (bjo) and Achim Hamacher (bs).

Discography (selection)

  • Blue Jazzniks : "Play Duke", JRCD 20850, DDD, 2007, 61'27 ", line-up Siggi Gerhard (cl) / (sax), Klaus Lohfink (trb), Achim Hamacher (bs), Heiner Franz (bjo)
  • Hot Swingers : "Dixieland Party Namber Wann" (LP), CBS 81258, cast by Roland Schneider (from left), Klaus Lohfink (trb), Ata Berk (dr), Rolf Hetebrüg (tp), Herbie Hess (cl), Jo Schomann ( b), Gustl Mayer (sax)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ jazzindex.ch
  2. ^ Jazzland.at: German-Austrian Dixieland All Stars ; Retrieved April 4, 2011
  3. ↑ 50 years of Sugarfoot Stompers , hanauonline.de, July 24, 2007
  4. ↑ Jazzniks heiner-franz.de
personal data
SURNAME Lohfink, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz trombonist, horn player and saxophonist
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt