Mike Zwerin

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Michael "Mike" Zwerin (born May 18, 1930 in New York City , † April 2, 2010 in Paris ) was an American jazz musician (trombone, bass trombone, piano) and author.

Live and act

Zwerin comes from a family of industrialists and learned to play the violin at the age of six; later he attended New York High School of Music and Art. He played in Miles Davis ' Capitol Band in 1948 before moving to Paris. In 1958 he returned to the USA and played in various big bands from Billy May , Claude Thornhill (1958/9), Maynard Ferguson and Bill Russo . From the Orchestra USA, in which he played from 1962 to 1965, he formed a sextet and took a. a. unusual arrangements of Kurt Weill compositions. A tour with Earl Hines in 1966 also led to the USSR . Then he had to take care of the administration of the family business. From 1969 he started z. Partly from the south of France to work as an author. He wrote u. a. for Village Voice and the International Herald Tribune .

At the beginning of the 1980s Zwerin returned to Paris and took part in recording sessions with the local jazz musicians (e.g. Alan Silva's Celestrial Communication Orchestra ), but also played with the George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band , the Mingus Big Band ( Live at Theater Boulogne -Billancourt, Paris , 1988) and the New York Jazz Repertory Company . In the field of jazz he was involved in 38 recording sessions between 1948 and 1996, according to Tom Lord .

From 1980 onwards, Zwerin increasingly worked as a jazz journalist. a. for the International Herald Tribune . For his book about swing in the Nazi era, he held conversations with contemporary witnesses all over Europe for several years. Mike Zwerin was married to the filmmaker Charlotte Zwerin . In 2009 the Jazz Journalist Association presented him with a Jazz Award for his life's work as a jazz journalist.

Discographic notes

Book publications

  • La Tristesse de Saint Louis: Swing under the Nazis . Vienna 1988 (first 1985)
  • The Parisian Jazz Chronicles. An Improvisational Memoir . Yale 2006
  • Close enough for jazz . 1983 (autobiography)
  • The Parisian Jazz Chronicles: An Improvisational Memoir . Yale University Press 2011. ISBN 0-300-10806-0 .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary, The Guardian , April 18, 2010
  2. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed November 27, 2019)
  3. ↑ Jazz Awards 2009 (JJA)
personal data
SURNAME Dwarf, Mike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zwerin, Michael (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 2010
Place of death Paris