Walter Jenson
Walter (Walther Friedrich Wilhelm) Jenson (* 19th December 1902 in Berlin , † 19th December 1952 in Berlin) was a German musician, composer, arranger and bandleader of jazz - and popular music .
Life
Jenson was a son of the Berlin lithographer and painter Friedrich Wilhelm Jenson (1873–1934) and his wife Charlotte Christiane, born. Müller. He studied composition and harmony at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin. His main instrument was the trumpet . He was later called the German Harry James . His musical influence came from the swing era. He worked with the copywriters Hans G. Orling and Leo Breiten, the singers Evelyn Künneke , Rita Paul (since 1945 in the Crusader Club in Hamburg) and Gloria Astor , the singers Peter Rebhuhn (since 1945), Bully Buhlan , Detlev Lais , Peter Cornehlsen, Werner Stüvecke, Bernd Golonsky and Werner Schöne as well as the clarinetist Baldo Maestri. From 1947 he also worked as an arranger a. a. for the Berlin RBT Orchestra founded by Michael Jary in 1945 (conductors: Horst Kudritzki and Erwin Lehn ) and for the orchestra of Kurt Widmann . Horst Kudritzki and Gloria Astor were also the witnesses at Walther Jenson's second marriage to Adelheid Neander (* August 18, 1923 - † September 3, 2019) in Berlin in October 1947 and they are the father of a daughter. In 1950, Walther Jenson (alongside Jean Kurt Forest ) took over the management of the newly founded dance and entertainment orchestra of the Berliner Rundfunk and at the same time founded his own orchestra made up of members of this orchestra. In addition to third-party compositions, he recorded his own compositions, for example the Spanish March , The Journey into the Blue and you should be my mascot . His compositions - for which the musician and singer Paul Kuhn still had to earn extra income as a copyist at the time - and the orchestral recordings were mainly for the Amiga label, but also for Eterna , Radiophon (R 690 / 47a), Odeon (O-31790) and Columbia (DW 4949) recorded and published.
Walther Jenson died on his fiftieth birthday of the late effects of an injury sustained in January 1919 during the Spartacus uprising . He was buried in the Weißensee cemetery .
Compositions (excerpt)
- The journey into the blue on Amiga CD: Sweet and Swinging - The most popular orchestras (Amiga 1947–2007; SONY BMG)
- Jimmy Lunceford on Amiga shellac record
- Rhythmic study No. 14 on Amiga shellac record
- Little boy from Portorico on Amiga shellac record
- Swing Promenade on Amiga shellac record
- Two minutes in Harlem on Amiga shellac record
- Amiga swing on Amiga shellac record
- You should be my mascot (W. Jenson / G. Schumann) on Amiga shellac record
- A tender song , Slow Foxtrot, text: Leo Breiten, Capriccio-Musikverlag GmbH, Berlin, 1948
- Silver moon , song and beguine , text: HG Orling, Maestro Internationaler Musik- & Bühnenverlag, Berlin, 1951
- Ach-Herrjeh , Carioca , piano score, text: HG Orling, Dt. Film-Verlag, Berlin, 1951
literature
- Mathias Brüll: Jazz on AMIGA. The jazz records of the AMIGA label from 1947 to 1990 . Pro Business, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-937343-27-X
- Werner Sellhorn : Jazz - GDR - facts. Performers, discographies, photos, CD . Neunplus 1 Edition Kunst, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-936033-19-6
- Bernd Meyer-Rähnitz, Frank Oehme, Joachim Schütte: The "Eternal Friend" - Eterna and Amiga; The discography of the shellac records (1947 - 1961) , Albis International Bibliophilen-Verlag, Dresden-Ústí 2006, ISBN 80-86971-10-4
- Siegfried Trzoß : Schlagergeschichte (s) of the East, Volume 1 . 1945–1965 (paperback) pages 13–14, aperçu Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-938810-02-5
- 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 (with over 100 pages of Amiga discography in the appendix).
- Karlheinz Drechsel : Liner Notes for Jazz on Amiga 1947-1962 (Amiga 850 852, Berlin 1981)
- Siegfried Schmidt-Joos : The Stasi does not swing , Mitteldeutscher Verlag , Halle 2016, ISBN 978-3954627615
Web links
- Jenson's birth announcement in the Berlin registry office from 1902
- Compositions and orchestral recordings in the German National Library
- Liner Notes for the Amiga LP Jazz on Amiga 1947-1962
- Liner Notes for the Amiga CD Sweet and Swinging (2007)
- Spanish March with the Walter Jenson Orchestra on YouTube
- The RBT orchestra plays the Jenson composition: "Two minutes in Harlem" on YouTube
- Regina record label: "Harlem Swing" (Amiga-Matrize 551), composition from 1947: Two minutes in Harlem
- Label of all shellac records from 1947 to 1952 (as of 2017)
- Shellac sample plate of the composition: Rhythmic Study No. 14 , Lied der Zeit GmbH, Berlin 1947
- The RBT orchestra plays Jenson's 1948 composition, Little Boy from Portorico (Rumba Bianca) on YouTube
- Text and piano sheet music by Kleiner Boy from Portorico , Capriccio-Musikverlag, Berlin 1948
- Text and sheet music for accordion by Kleiner Boy from Portorico , in Bunte Noten , Capriccio-Musikverlag, Berlin 1948
- Text and sheet music for accordion by A tender song , in colorful notes , Capriccio-Musikverlag, Berlin 1948
- Commentary in the 2nd February issue of 1948 of the magazine for music and dance "vierViertel", Capriccio-Musikverlag, Berlin, 1948
- Catalog of copyright entries, Published Music , Library of Congress. Copyright Office, Washington 1951
- Georg Plathe: Interview also on W. Jenson's conductor status in 1950; from Siegfried Trzoß ' hit story (s) of the East, Volume 1 . 1945-1965, Berlin 2007
- Eterna record label of the orchestral recording Helgolandlied and Friesenlied v. Müller-Grählert , Berlin 1952
- BlueSong record label from 1981 - Jenson compositions: Track No. 3,4,6 + 7
- Forum contribution (2011-2013) on gramophone records, de (archive.is)
- List of compositions and orchestral recordings on YouTube
- Walter Jenson at FindAGrave
- Walter Jenson at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/649719-Hans-Orling/images
- ↑ https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/705828-Leo-Breiten/images
- ↑ https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/484762-Evelyn-K%C3%83%C2%BCnneke/images
- ↑ http://mediasvc.ancestry.com/image/8407fd5f-3448-44a3-a320-fcb766c5f137.jpg?Client=Trees&NamespaceID=1093
- ↑ https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/712963-Gloria-Astor/images
- ↑ https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/1668646-Peter-Cornehlsen/images
- ↑ https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/1661179-Werner-St%C3%83%C2%BCvecke/images
- ↑ https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/1409148-Bernd-Golonsky/images
- ↑ https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/317327-Baldo-Maestri/images
- ↑ https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/2411780-Kurt-Widmann/images
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Jenson, Walter |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jenson, Walther Friedrich Wilhelm (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musician, composer and arranger |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 19, 1902 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
DATE OF DEATH | December 19, 1952 |
Place of death | Berlin |