Rolf Goldstein

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Rolf Goldstein (born May 17, 1912 in Berlin ; † November 1995 in Geneva ) was a German, later American jazz and entertainment musician (trumpet and piano) who mostly worked in Switzerland.

Live and act

Goldstein, who learned to play the piano as a teenager, worked in small dance bands from the age of 17. Inspired by Bix Beiderbecke , he also played the trumpet. For a time he was a member of the orchestras Marek Weber , Efim Schachmeister and Georg Nettelmann ; from 1931 to 1932 he played with Eric Borchard . Because of his origins, he was persecuted as a Jew by the Nazi dictatorship in Germany and emigrated to the Netherlands in 1933. There he became second trumpeter with the Chocolate Kiddies , which also went on tour internationally before they split up in early 1939. With René Bertschy he came to Switzerland, where he played with various formations and initially accompanied revues in the Zurcher Corso Theater with the orchestra of George Oppliger . Then Teddy Stauffer brought him to the Original Teddies . From February 1942 he played with Lothar Löffler, then with Jo Grandjean, with Fred Böhler and with the Basel orchestra The Lanigiros . In between he kept performing with the teddies . In 1947 Bertschy brought him to his Continentals , where he also worked as a pianist. He later emigrated to the United States with his Swiss wife, where he lived for twenty years. There he was “never recognized as a musician, especially because his own musical style quickly became old-fashioned. He went back to Switzerland as a broken man. ”He lived in Geneva, but worked for a long time under the stage name Rolf Stone as a bar pianist in the restaurant on the Rigi and in hotel bars.

According to Otto Flückiger, Goldstein was a notable trumpet soloist. He has records with the Chocolate Kiddies , with Eddie Brunner , with Ernst Höllerhagen , with Benny Carter , (“Blues in the Night” and “Somebody Loves You”), with Freddy Johnson and the orchestra Lex van Spall (“I Want To Dance ") And recorded with the original teddies (including" Bugle Call Rag "). Goldstein has also recorded under his own name and as a pianist in a duo with Buddy Bertinat for Elite Special .

literature

  • Otto Flückiger: Rolf Goldstein , in: Bruno Spoerri (Hrsg.): Biographical Lexicon of Swiss Jazz CD supplement to: Spoerri, Bruno (Hrsg.): Jazz in Switzerland. History and stories . Chronos-Verlag, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0739-6 .

Web links

  • Entry (Swiss Jazz Index)

Remarks

  1. ↑ Michael H. Kater : Daring game. Jazz under National Socialism . Cologne, Kiepenheuer & Witsch 1995, p. 50
  2. ↑ a b Interview René Bertschy
  3. ↑ Michael Kater Daring Game , p. 368
personal data
SURNAME Goldstein, Rolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stone, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 1995
Place of death Geneva