Primo Angeli
Primo Angeli (born May 5, 1906 in Milan , † October 25, 2003 in Munich ) was an Italian jazz and entertainment musician ( piano , Hammond organ ).
Live and act
Angeli studied music in Bologna at the Liceo Musicale ; he began to be interested in jazz and came into contact with Tullio Mobiglia , Alfredo Marzaroli, Mario Balbo and other like-minded musicians. Then he became a member of the orchestra of Nanni dal Dello, with whom he went on tour. In 1937, during a tour of Germany, the orchestra recorded six songs for Odeon . Then Angeli left the orchestra to play with Albert Vossen and then with Eugen Henkel . As part of the Berlin scene, he took part in recordings by Willy Berking , Hans Rehmstedt , Friedrich Meyer-Gergs , Hans Georg Schütz , Heinz Burzynski , Willi Stanke and the Golden Seven . From the end of 1940 he recorded with the propaganda band Charlie and His Orchestra , in which Lutz Templin gathered the elite of European jazz, but Angeli stood out in terms of play: “A top performance” was the recording of the piece Cymbal Promenade by Freddie Brocksieper , “a production from Nazi Berlin of 1943, which, when you listen to it today, triggers rock 'n' roll associations. Primo Angeli played Brocksieper's boogie harmonies on the harpsichord ”. It is considered a "masterpiece of German jazz at that time". Further recordings from this time with the bands of Benny de Weille and Franz Kleindin show him "as an excellent Teddy-Wilson - Epigonen ." He also played with his own combo, with which Coco Schumann jammed as a 16-year-old, and with Alfio Grasso .
After the crackdown on National Socialism, Angeli worked with his wife, the singer Henriette Schäffler, in soldiers' clubs in the US Army; then he worked as an organist in the Hotel Frankfurter Hof . He then moved to Munich, where he worked for the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation and opened an organ school.
Lexical entries
- Jürgen Wölfer : Jazz in Germany. The encyclopedia. All musicians and record companies from 1920 until today. Hannibal, Höfen 2008, ISBN 978-3-85445-274-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Michael H. Kater Daring game. Jazz under National Socialism . Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1995, pp. 248, 252
- ↑ We made the best music back then , Der Spiegel 16/1988
- ↑ a b so Jürgen Wölfer
- ↑ cf. Michael H. Kater Daring game . Cologne 1995, pp. 262, 354
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Angeli, Primo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian jazz and entertainment musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milan |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 25, 2003 |
| Place of death | Munich |