The Lanigiros

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The Lanigiros , also known as The Lanigiro Hot Players, was a Swiss jazz and dance orchestra . In the interwar period, the ensemble was considered one of the most prominent and popular bands in Switzerland, alongside Teddy Stauffer's Original Teddies, due to its international experience.

Band history

The band The Lanigiros emerged from the school band The Lanigiro Syncopating Melody Kings founded in 1924 by the Basel student Hans Philippi , which made its first radio appearances in 1926 and recorded its first jazz records in 1928/29 ( Me and the Man in the Moon ). After René Schmassmann took over the leadership of the band in 1932 and renamed them The Lanigiro Hot Players , they worked as a professional band, usually referred to simply as The Lanigiros - "Lanigiro" is the reverse of "Original". In 1933/34 she worked in large hotels in Basel, St. Moritz, Interlaken, Lausanne, Zurich and Lucerne. In the 1930s Schmassmann toured with the band through Germany, Belgium and Switzerland; In 1935 the band recorded privately on the Hug Acetate label for demo purposes that never appeared in stores. These included versions of well-known jazz tracks such as After You've Gone and Mood Indigo , which were musically based on the Duke Ellington Orchestra . In 1937 (during this time Hans Berry played with) professional recordings were made for Odeon in Berlin ( Little Old Lady ), four vocal numbers with Julian Layat.

Schmassmann and The Lanigiros Hot Players appeared among others. a. 1937 in the Cafe Heinze in Hamburg and in the Berlin Delphi Filmpalast , whereby the band was expanded to 14 musicians, including Willy Berking . The appearance in Delphi experienced strong hostility from the National Socialist press, u. a. by the NSDAP- Kampfblatt Das Schwarze Korps ; The only way to avoid the pressure on the management of the theater was to argue that the musicians played at Delphi for pleasure and without a fee. In 1939, band member Bruno Bandini took over the leadership of the band, which recorded other records in Zurich from 1941 to 1943, including a cover version of the St. Louis Blues (Columbia ZZ1132). Soloists in the ensemble in 1941 were Rio de Gregori , Fernand Clare and René Bertschy ; the occupation varied between four and 15 members. a. Glyn Paque belonged to. By 1945 only Eric Landsrath was left of the original line-up ; In 1961 the group disbanded. Stylistically, the band specialized in hot jazz , Dixieland and Chicago jazz .

Discographic notes

  • Lanigiro Syncopating Melody Kings: Jazz & Hot Dance in Basel: 1929–1943 (Harlequin, ed. 1988)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bruno Spoerri : Jazz in Switzerland: History and Stories . 2005, p. 64.
  2. ^ Stefan Ineichen: Zurich 1933–1945: 152 scenes . 2009, p. 155
  3. ^ Wim van Leer: Time of my life . 1984, p. 10