Tremble kids
The Tremble Kids are a Swiss Dixieland combo from Zurich , founded in 1951 , who toured a lot in Europe from the second half of the 1950s and got back together again and again until the late 1990s. Founded as an amateur band, the band was quickly successful (in March 1953 they accompanied Lil Armstrong in Basel ). The Tremble Kids switched to professional life in 1955 on the occasion of longer guest appearances in Germany.
Personnel composition
The founder is the clarinetist Werner Keller (who was the band leader until 1961); When it was founded in Zurich in 1950, permanent band members were Eddy Jegge (trumpet) and Erwin Meierhofer (drums). Other temporary members were Walter Leibundgut (trombone, vocals), Henri Chaix (piano, from 1959, then sporadically and permanently from 1976), Oscar Klein (trumpet, 1958 to the end of 1959, when he switched to the Dutch Swing College Band ), Peter Schmidli (Guitar), Charly Antolini (drums) (for example April 1957 in Cologne), Isla Eckinger (bass, trombone), Rolf Cizmek (bass, 1954 to 1961), Peter Giger (drums, from 1958), Vincenz Kummer (bass) , Peter Lange (trumpet), Raymond Droz (trombone).
stylistics
The band initially played in the Chicago style in the spirit of Eddie Condon . After the Tremble Kids had initially played as a septet with tuba and banjo , from 1954 onwards they oriented themselves towards Louis Armstrong's Allstars, in which the traditional sextet formation revolved around a themed starter trumpeter. Trumpeter Edi Jegge, who was stylistically influenced by both Armstrong and Bobby Hackett , was supported by clarinetist Werner Wieni Keller and, above all, trombonist Walter Leibundgut.
Recordings
They made their first recordings in May 1956 in Frankfurt (with Keller, Leibundgut, Czimek, Erwin Meierhofer dr, Gerhard Haldimann p, Eddy Jegge trumpet), where they played for five months in the New Orleans jazz club .
literature
- Erwin Elvers / Gerard Bieldermann: Werner Keller - Tremble Kids Discography (Eurojazz discos, Gerard Bieldermann, Zwolle, NL, 1997)
- Bruno Spoerri (Ed.): Jazz in Switzerland. History and stories . Chronos-Verlag, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0739-6
Web links
- Tremble Kids 1958
- Tremble Kids Story
- Tremble Kids at Discogs (English)