Teddy Kline

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Teddy Kline (* around 1900; † after 1930) was an American jazz musician ( clarinet , alto saxophone and band leader ) who was active in Germany during the Weimar Republic .

Life

In the late 1920s, Kline worked in Berlin with the jazz orchestras of Sam Baskini and Theo Mackeben as well as with The Cassidy's New Rhythmists, with whom recordings for Kalliope and Ultraphone were made. With his own orchestra he recorded several songs for homokord in June 1929 , including the hot jazz number “I'm Doing What I'm Doing for Love” with the chorus singing of the “ Two Jazzers ” (Lászlo Mocsányi and Tibor Lakos), as well as the then popular numbers “ Diga Diga Doo ”, “ Can't Help Lovin 'Dat Man ”, “ Deep Night"," I Lift Up My Finger and Say "Tweet, Tweet" "or daily hits like" Zwei Kravatten ". Musicians such as Billy Barton (tenor and bass saxophone), Mike Danzi (banjo) and George Haentzschel (piano) played in Kline's band, as did the French clarinetist Christian Wagner for a short time . The actual band leader was Mike Danzi; However, since he had an exclusive contract with the Homokord-Gesellschaft, Teddy Kline had to be named the official band leader. Since Teddy Kline came from Virginia, the chapel was named The Virginians . Kline's orchestra was very popular in Berlin and enjoyed a reputation like contemporary bands from Marek Weber , Paul Godwin , Julian Fuhs or Stefan Weintraub 's Syncopators. In 1930 he still played with Billy Barton and his Havana Band; Kline's recordings are not available from later years. In the field of jazz he was involved in twenty recording sessions between 1929 and 1930.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rainer E. Lotz: Hot Dance Bands in Germany: The 1920s Jazzfreund, 1982
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed March 5, 2016)
personal data
SURNAME Kline, teddy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician and band leader
DATE OF BIRTH around 1900
DATE OF DEATH after 1930