The tattoos

The Tattoos were a German trumpet duo , consisting of Heinz Habermann and Manfred Moch , who were active from the late 1960s to the early 1970s.

Career

Heinz Habermann (born May 4, 1925 in Tüddern / Geilenkirchen district , † February 14, 1991 in Sülfeld ) previously worked for NDR , Kurt Henkels , the Viktor Reschke television orchestra and the orchestras of Bert Kaempfert and James Last .

Manfred Moch (born May 16, 1930 in Hirschberg / Poland , † May 28, 2011 in Jávea / Spain ) was a member of Bert Kaempfert's orchestra from 1960 to 1968 , from 1968 he played in the James Last orchestra and was also under contract with NDR . In the late 1970s he also played in the Kai Warner Orchestra .

Habermann and Moch were responsible for the stereo alternating trumpet section in the James Last Orchestra from 1968. The Tattoos recorded their first long-playing record together for Teldec in 1967 , and in the early 1970s they switched to the newly founded BASF label.

Discography (selection)

1967: Pops go Trumpet ( Teldec 14485)
1968: Party Pops (Teldec 14515)
1968: The tattoos force you to dance: Must i, must i ... (Teldec 14531)
1968: Tattoos a Gogo (Teldec 14564)
1968: Latin Pops (Teldec 14551)
Tattoos current (Teldec 14634)
1972: The Original Tattoos (BASF 2021143-6)
1973: Hawaiian trumpets (BASF 2021 625-2)

Lexical entries

Friedel Keim : The big book of the trumpet. Instrument, history, trumpeter lexicon. Mainz 2005: Schott International. ISBN 3-7957-0530-4 .
Jürgen Wölfer : Jazz in Germany. The encyclopedia. All musicians and record companies from 1920 until today. Hannibal, Höfen 2008, ISBN 978-3-85445-274-4 .

Individual evidence

↑ See Jürgen Wölfer: Jazz in Germany. The encyclopedia. All musicians and record companies from 1920 until today. Hannibal, Höfen 2008, ISBN 978-3-85445-274-4 , p. 132.

[1] See Jürgen Wölfer: Jazz in Germany. The encyclopedia. All musicians and record companies from 1920 until today. Hannibal, Höfen 2008, ISBN 978-3-85445-274-4 , p. 132.