Modern soul band

Modern soul band
General information
Genre (s)	Soul , jazz rock
founding	1968
Website	www.modernsoulband.de
Founding members
Keyboard , composition	Gerhard Hugo Laartz
singing	Klaus Nowodworski
bass	Eugene Hahn
Trumpet	Andy Altenfelder
saxophone	Jürgen Fritsch
guitar	Günter Dobrowolski
Drums	Gunther Wosylus
Current occupation
Keyboard, composition	Gerhard Hugo Laartz
singing	Dirk Lorenz
Trumpet	Ferry Grott
saxophone	Frank Fritsch
trombone	Stephan Bohm
guitar	Wolfgang Nick Nicklisch
bass	Jörg Dobersch
Drums	Mathias Matze Fuhrmann
former members
Trombone, guitar	Conny Bauer
Drums	Karl-Jürgen Rath
Trumpet	Jochen Gleichmann
Drums	Stephan Geuther
Guitar, vocals	Hansi Biebl
singing	Regine Dobberschütz
bass	Christian Liebig
guitar	Eberhard Klunker
Drums	Ulrich Kersten
guitar	Wolfgang Nicklisch
saxophone	Joachim Schmauch
guitar	Volker Reichel
Trumpet, percussion	Christian cave
singing	Barbara Kuster
singing	Gonda Streibig
saxophone	Helmut Forsthoff
saxophone	André Erdmann
singing	Christian Onion Schmidt
guitar	Jens Schultz
trombone	Dagobert Darsow
saxophone	D.-Mercedes Wendler
Trumpet	Claus Dieter Knispel
Trumpet	Andreas Hillmann
Drums	Klaus Döring
guitar	André Horvath
Drums	Bernd Haucke
guitar	Gisbert Piatkowski
saxophone	Andreas Wieczorek
singing	Michael Barakowski
singing	André Siodla
Drums	Roger Heinrich
bass	Carsten Mutschall
guitar	Jens Jensen
Guests
singing	Uschi Brüning
saxophone	Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky
singing	Angelika Weiz

Annual hit parade of the GDR

title

heaven and hell   GDR 22nd 1976

The Modern Soul Band ( MSB for short ) is a German soul and jazz rock band that was founded in 1968 in the GDR . The cast lists since the band was founded include over 40 musicians.

Band history

Once in the GDR Music Stromer with a performance ban had been occupied, founded in July 1968 Gerhard Hugo Laartz with Eugen Hahn (bass), Andy Altenfelder (trumpet), Jürgen Fritsch (saxophone), Klaus Nowodworski (vocals), Günter Dobrowolski ( Guitar) and Gunther Wosylus (drums) the modern septet . The home of the young band was the East Berlin Fredersdorfer Klub (officially: youth club friendship) near today's Ostbahnhof . There, music lovers gathered who had little interest in beat music and the typical rock sound of the GDR. Initially, the band mostly played cover versions of Blood, Sweat & Tears and Chicago , until the 1970s when they created their own songs. At that time the band was the only GDR band that played soul and jazz rock. Soul music was “still completely new and modern in the GDR at that time”. After trombonist Conny Bauer was added and for Wosylus, who switched to the Puhdys , Karl-Jürgen Rath came to the drums, the group was named Modern Soul Band . In the same year Altenfelder and Dobrowolski also left the band. They were replaced by Jochen Gleichmann (trumpet, died on November 28, 2018), who was already with the Music-Stromers , and Hansi Biebl . In addition to Nowodworski, Regine Dobberschütz sang between 1973 and 1978, followed by Barbara Kuster and Gonda Streibig.

After the first radio productions, a one-month guest performance in Berlin's Friedrichstadtpalast followed in 1970 . In 1972 Biebl went to Veronika Fischer and the band, and Eberhard Klunker switched to the band for him . In 1973, Bauer, who wanted to devote himself exclusively to jazz, was replaced by Dagobert Darsow. In 1973 and 1977 the Modern Soul Band temporarily merged for longer tours with the Klaus Lenz Band to form the Klaus Lenz Modern Soul Big Band . The Modern Soul Band was one of the most-produced bands on GDR radio; the first live LP on Amiga was released in 1977. Tour guests included Veronika Fischer, Uschi Brüning , Stefan Diestelmann , Helmut Forsthoff and Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky . Overall, the group played an important role in the development of GDR rock music.

Angelika Weiz , Rosay Wortham (USA) and Peter Herbolzheimer from the Federal Republic of Germany celebrated the 15th anniversary in 1983 . In 1984 she won the second prize at the “Grand Prix” and the press prize at the Dresden International Schlager Festival with the title Ideale . Soon after, the band was not only successful in the GDR, but also on tours abroad from 1986 onwards. After the reunification , the group started again after a short break in 1991; Now, for the first time, all texts in the old soul tradition could be interpreted in English - unlike previously with censored German texts. From 1994 the Modern Soul Band worked with an almost constant line-up. In July 1999 the original singer Klaus Nowodworski returned. After he died in 2001, Dirk Lorenz joined him as the new front man.

On September 7th and 8th, 2003 the band celebrated their 35th stage anniversary together with many guests of honor such as Uschi Brüning, Conny Bauer, Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky, Klaus Lenz and Reinhard Lakomy , for which a DVD was released. The CD Soul Time Live , released in 2004, was created from a live recording in December 2003. In 2007 the single Sommer was released in Berlin. In March 2008, MSB published the portrait Highway Rock - 40 Years Modern Soul Band, with almost exclusively previously unreleased tracks being found on the CD. The highlights were the concerts with guests on July 11th and 12th, 2008 on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the band's existence. This was recorded and published on a DVD and a double CD.

In 2011 Roger Heinrich (drums), Carsten Muttschall (bass) and Jens Jensen (guitar) left the band and were replaced by Mathias Fuhrmann, Jörg Dobersch and Wolfgang Nicklisch. Singer André Siodla also joined the Modern Soul Band.

Discography

LPs

• 1976: Modern Soul Band ( Amiga )
• 1979: Meeting (Amiga)
• 1987: Berliner Song (Amiga)

CD

• 1991: Moods (Rockwerk)
• 1998: Rolling Man
• 2003: 35 years of MSB
• 2004: Soultime - live (sounds)
• 2007: Summer in Berlin (Groovebusters Records)
• 2008: Highway Rock - The Portrait (Choice Of Music)
• 2008: 40 years of MSB - live in Berlin (Edel Kultur)
• 2012: Never (Groovebusters Records)
• 2018: Heaven and Hell (MARA Records)

literature

• HP Hofmann: Beat Lexicon. Performers, authors, technical terms . VEB Lied der Zeit Musikverlag, Berlin (East) 1977.
• Götz Hintze: Rock Lexicon of the GDR . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89602-303-9

Web links

• Official website
• Portrait at deutsche-mugge.de
• Portrait at ostbeat.de ( Memento from June 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
• Portrait at ostmusik.de ( Memento from April 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Götz Hintze: Rock Lexicon of the GDR . 2nd Edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-303-9
2. ↑ http://www.intaktrec.ch/osterbauer-a.htm