Manfred Moch

Manfred Moch (* 6. May 1930 in Hirschberg in the Giant Mountains , Lower Silesia province , † 28. May 2011 in Jávea , Spain) was a German trumpeter (and vibraphone , the) in the Big Band - Jazz and in the light music was active.

Moch taught himself to play the trumpet by himself and toured Germany as a musician for years. In 1957 he played in Cologne with Heinz Kretzschmar , with whom the first recordings were made in 1955/57. In 1960 he joined the television orchestra. Moch became known in the 1960s as a soloist with Bert Kaempfert , to be heard in titles such as Bye Bye Blues, Strangers in the Night, LOVE and Sweet Maria . In 1968 he separated from Kaempfert, but still worked with him occasionally in the 1970s. In the 1960s and 1970s he was also a member of the James Last Orchestra and played on its non-stop dancing LPs from 1965 to 1975; he was still working with him on record sessions after he left the touring band. In addition, Moch worked from the 1960s to the 1990s with the NDR dance orchestra and the resulting NDR Big Band and as a session musician in Hamburg. He was also a member of the Kai Warner Orchestra until the end . At the end of the 1960s he recorded trumpet duo albums with Heinz Habermann, a colleague from the Last and Kaempfert orchestras, which appeared under the band name The Tattoos at Decca and later at BASF . In the field of jazz he was involved in 25 recording sessions between 1955 and 1993. a. also with Paul Kuhn , Phil Wilson , as a member of the NDR Big Band also with George Gruntz , Inga Rumpf , Chet Baker and Joe Pass .

Web links

• Manfred Moch at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ [1]
2. ↑ Friedel Keim : The Big Book of the Trumpet: Instrument, History, Trompeterlexikon, Volume 1 , Mainz: Schott, 2005
3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed June 1, 2017)