Reinhard Wenskat

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Reinhard "Reiny" Wenskat (born January 25, 1896, Wüstenmark near Schwerin; † after 1950) was a German jazz and entertainment musician ( drums , accordion), arranger , composer and band leader who worked in the German Empire and, according to J. Bradford was one of the local jazz pioneers.

Live and act

From the mid-1920s, Wenskat worked in Leipzig and Berlin, where he led a dance orchestra, the German Dance Sport Orchestra Wenskat ; In 1924 the record "Blue Hoosier (Blues)" was made; In the following three years he and his band recorded around forty hot jazz tracks for Deutsche Grammophon, such as " Sweet Georgia Brown " (with the subtitle "Süßes Negermädel" (1926), Nordisk B41291), "Jig Walk" (by Duke Ellington , Nordisk S40819), "Let's Talk About My Sweetie" ( Polydor 31281), "Oh Petruschka" (Electrocord, with Max Kuttner ), "I'm going to Swinoujscie for fourteen days" (by Robert Katscher , gramophone 41432) and “Milenberg Joys” (gramophone B41439), also Foxtrot hits like “I know two sweet sisters” or “ What is Maier doing in the Himalaya? ". In the Wenskat Jazz Orchestra played a. a. the trumpeter Louis de Vries and the trombonist Henry van den Bosshe . The last recordings were made in January 1927 with the singer Carlos Cantieni (“Drum brothers, let's have another drink!”). In 1930 Wenskat presented a drum kit.

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Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ in: Wolfram Knauer (ed.): Jazz and Composition . Cloud publishing company Mbh, 1992, p. 22 (footnote 9)
  2. ^ Horst Heinz Lange: Jazz in Germany : the German jazz chronicle until 1960.t Heinz Lange G. Olms, 1996, p. 48
  3. ↑ Heribert Schröder: Dance and light music in Germany 1918-1933 Verlag für systematic Musikwissenschaft GmbH, 1990, p. 42
  4. ↑ Published on Isiphon Concert Record 31 a Mx.-No .: 6443
  5. ↑ The title was written around 1920 by Abel Baer (1893–1976), Jack Meskill and Cliff Friend (1893–1974); other early recordings are by Sam Lanin (1921, Regal 9486), Isham Jones (1923, Brunswick 2456B) and the pianist Pete Wendling (Piano Roll, 1923)
  6. ↑ Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online)
  7. ↑ Wenskat School for Jazz Drums ; edited by Alfred Baresel . Leipzig: Zimmermann, [1930].
personal data
SURNAME Wenskat, Reinhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wenskat, Reiny (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish jazz and entertainment musician (drums), arranger, composer and band leader
DATE OF BIRTH around 1900
DATE OF DEATH after 1930