Walter Jenson

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Walther Jenson 1948
Walter Jenson, Hamburg 1945
Two minutes in Harlem v. Walter Jenson, the RBT Orchestra plays , Berlin 1947
Harlem Swing (Two Minutes in Harlem) v. Walter Jenson, Berlin 1947
Little boy from Portorico v. Walter Jenson, Willi Stanke Orchestra , vocals: Ursula Maury , Berlin 1948
Little boy from Portorico, Berlin 1948

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

Web links

Commons : Walter Jenson  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/649719-Hans-Orling/images
  2. ↑ https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/705828-Leo-Breiten/images
  3. ↑ https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/484762-Evelyn-K%C3%83%C2%BCnneke/images
  4. ↑ http://mediasvc.ancestry.com/image/8407fd5f-3448-44a3-a320-fcb766c5f137.jpg?Client=Trees&NamespaceID=1093
  5. ↑ https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/712963-Gloria-Astor/images
  6. ↑ https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/1668646-Peter-Cornehlsen/images
  7. ↑ https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/1661179-Werner-St%C3%83%C2%BCvecke/images
  8. ↑ https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/1409148-Bernd-Golonsky/images
  9. ↑ https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/317327-Baldo-Maestri/images
  10. ↑ https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/2411780-Kurt-Widmann/images
personal data
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