Meg Tevelian

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Meguerditsch "Meg" Tevelian (* 1902 ; † 1976 ) was a guitarist and bandleader who was active in jazz as well as pop and light music.

Live and act

Meg Tevelian, who was a stateless Armenian , played in Berlin in the late 1930s with Oskar Joost , with whom the first recordings for gramophone were made in 1937; In 1939 he worked with Willy Berking and his soloists, as well as in the orchestras of Michael Jary and Hans Georg Schultz . In the early 1940s he played a. a. with Charlie and His Orchestra , Corny Ostermann , Kurt Widmann , Adolf Steimel , Hans Rehmstedt , Horst Winter , Peter Kreuder , Kurt and Gerhard Wehner , Guus Janssen , Benny de Weille , Teddy Kleindin , Willi Stanke , Erhard Bauschke , Primo Angeli , Freddie Brocksieper and Helmut Zacharias .

At Televox, a Berlin music store, whose sound studio in the back rooms was still producing small editions of artists such as Albert Vossen or Wehner's swing records in 1942 , Tevelian also played a number of times under his own name ( Small Dance Orchestra Meg Tevelian ) during this time from "fairly harmless and partly running daily hits ", but also swing- oriented dance music numbers like "The next day" ( Franz Grothe ; Televox E 900, Pallas 1203), "Yvonne" (Pallas 1207), "Ararat" (Pallas 1208), "Men are already worth love" (Televox E 901), "Heliotrope" (E 902), "I love you" / "Love is like a dream" ( E 903) as well as the singing number "Once you will be with me again" (1941, with the Schuricke trio ; Grammophone 11585) from the film We dance around the world . In his band u. a. Musicians Louis Deheas , Rinus van den Broek (tp), André Smit (tb), Tip Tischelaar (p), Cesare Cavaion (b) and Harry van Dyk (dr) from Belgium and the Netherlands . In the post-war period he worked in Vienna with the Harmona Orchestra Othmar Šerhák , the Record Melodiker (with Hans Koller and Viktor Plasil, among others ) and the Standard Jazz Band (with Fritz Pavlicek, among others ). In the field of jazz he was involved in 234 recording sessions between 1937 and 1949.

Discographic notes

  • My heart has its premiere today - Televox Jam Session 1942 (ed. 2002)
  • Swinging Ballroom Berlin - Swing, Jazz & Sweet in historical original recordings, 1926–1943 (ed. 2002)
  • The great dance orchestras - Harry Van Dyk & Meg Tevelian (Universal Jazz, ed. 2003)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael H. Kater : Different Drummers: Jazz in the Culture of Nazi Germany . 2003, p. 62
  2. ↑ Horst H. Lange : Jazz in Germany: the German jazz chronicle until 1960 G. Olms, 1996, p. 137
  3. ↑ Michael Thomas Röblitz, Ralf Schmiedecke: Berlin-Schöneberg: not only "as once in May . 2005, p. 49
  4. ↑ Emile Henceval: Dictionnaire du jazz à Bruxelles et de Wallonie . 1991, p. 119
  5. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed September 1, 2016)
personal data
SURNAME Tevelian, Meg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tevelian, Meguarditsch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Musician and band leader
DATE OF BIRTH 1902
DATE OF DEATH 1976