Roland Schneider (musician)
Roland Schneider (born June 3, 1937 in Frankfurt am Main ; † December 25, 2015 in Friedberg (Hesse) ) was a German jazz pianist who also worked as an arranger and music producer.
Live and act
Schneider, who first grew up in Limburg , learned the violin at the age of eight, later switched to the viola and played in the school orchestra. When he moved back to Frankfurt, he switched from guitar and double bass to piano. At eighteen, while apprenticing in the chemical industry, he founded the Burgundy Street Paraders , with whom he played Dixieland . He then switched to mainstream jazz and was awarded the Swing Cats in 1961 at the German Amateur Jazz Festival in Düsseldorf. With this combo he was on tour in Germany and Austria. He also went on tour with Albert Nicholas and the Dutch Swing College Band . From 1963 to 1965 he accompanied the Golden Gate Quartet on guest performances in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and East Asia. Then he was out with Eartha Kitt and the Mills Brothers .
He also worked as a record producer and founded his own production company in 1969. In the 1970s and early 1980s, he ran the Hot Swingers , which included Gustl Mayer , Klaus Lohfink , Herbie Hess, and Ata Berk . He also wrote and arranged music, including for cabaret productions by Volker Kühn ( Pol (h) itparade ). He also performed with Peter Petrel , Conny Jackel , Charly Antolini , Günter Lenz and the Karl Katz Band. Then he belonged to the Hanauer Sugarfoot Stompers , with whom he recorded a CD in 2006. He also worked as a studio musician with Costa Cordalis and Peter Orloff .
Discographic notes
- The Golden Gate Quartet Volume 6
- Volker Kühn & Roland Schneider Combo: Der Dingsda: Ein Wort-Jazz Treff (rec. 1971/72, ed. 2011)
- La Romanderie Gipsy Swing
- Rainer Bange & Roland Schneider Trio Hanau terminus
literature
- Andreas Obst: Changes in a pianist: Roland Schneider. In: Wolfgang Sandner , Jazz in Frankfurt. 1990, pp. 83-85 (with discography)
- Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler: Reclams Jazzführer (= Reclams Universal Library. No. 10185/10196). Reclam, Stuttgart 1970, ISBN 3-15-010185-9 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Roland Schneider in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Mourning for jazz pianist Roland Schneider
- ^ Death of the jazz player Roland Schneider
- ↑ See Jürgen Schwab The Frankfurt Sound. A city and its jazz history (s). Frankfurt am Main, Societätsverlag 2005, p. 133
- ↑ See Jürgen Schwab The Frankfurt Sound. Frankfurt am Main, Societätsverlag 2005, p. 212
- ↑ 50 years of Sugarfoot Stompers
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schneider, Roland |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 3, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 25, 2015 |
| Place of death | Friedberg (Hesse) |