Teddy Ehrenreich

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Rudolf "Teddy" Ehrenreich (born March 10, 1936 in Vienna ; † March 2, 2014 ) was an Austrian jazz musician ( clarinet , saxophone , composition , arrangements ), who was best known as a long-time big band leader .

Live and act

Ehrenreich received piano and then clarinet lessons at the Vienna Institute for Jazz Music from 1951 . From 1962 he studied at the Vienna Music Academy . In 1952 he founded his first band, which from 1956 appeared regularly in a Viennese bar in the Dixieland style. With this band Fatty George brought him to Germany from 1957 until Ehrenreich returned to Vienna in 1962. There he founded his first own big band, which acted as Ted Evans and his orchestra . Between 1968 and 1972 he worked as a saxophonist in Karel Krautgartner's orchestra ; then he worked as a program designer for Ö3 . In 1975 he founded the Teddy Ehrenreich Big Band , which also worked for the ORF and, above all, musicians in the Viennese Jazzland such as the trumpeters Joe Newman , Harry Sweets Edison , Conte and Pete Candoli , the trombonist George Masso , the saxophonists Eddie Lockjaw Davis , Don Menza and Hal Singer and drummers Harold Jones and Jake Hanna accompanied. The band included musicians like Heinz Czadek , Martin Fuss , Fritz Beyer , Andy Haderer , Bumi Fian , Christian Radovan , Roland Batik , Klaus Dickbauer , Joris Dudli , Mario Gonzi , Herwig Gradischnig , Rudi Wilfer , Rudolf Hansen , Viktor Plasil , Franz Koglmann , Robert Politzer , Hannes Kottek , Frank Mantooth , Wayne Darling , Leszek Zadlo and Anton Mühlhofer . In recent years his son Alexander Ehrenreich (saxophone) has worked as the band's co-leader.

Up to a stroke he suffered in 2001, Ehrenreich was one of Austria's leading jazz clarinetists; through persistent, disciplined practice, however, he regained much of his technical brilliance. He died in March 2014 a few days before his 78th birthday and was buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery in an honorary grave (group 40, number 194).

Teddy Ehrenreich's grave

Ehrenreich composed pieces such as Blues for Tina , Dixielips or Alexander's Playmobil .

Prizes and awards

Ehrenreich and his Big Band received awards at the Austrian Amateur Jazz Festival in Vienna in 1964 and 1965. On May 5, 2004 he received the Medal of Honor of the Federal Capital Vienna ; on January 17, 2012, he was awarded the Golden Decoration for Services to the State of Vienna .

Discography

  • Teddy Ehrenreich Big Band - Teddy plays Woody (1985)
  • Vienna City Ramblers, Teddy Ehrenreich, Ines Reiger - Swingtime Live (1997)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Jazz Pages
  2. Jazz musician Teddy Ehrenreich is dead
  3. ^ Vienna Online