Walter Terharen

Walter Terharen (born August 14, 1933 ; † May 26, 2014 ) was an Austrian jazz musician ( trombone , piano ). He was considered "the doyen of the traditional Viennese amateur jazz scene."

Terharen began studying jazz around 1950, inspired by the Blue Danube Network's weekly Kid Ory program . At that time, the first jam sessions with Konrad Bayer developed , from which, with Oswald Wiener and other musicians, the Real Jazz Band (the name suggested HC Artmann ) emerged, to which Gerhard Kubik also belonged and which presented New Orleans jazz in numerous Viennese clubs in the 1950s . From 1968 he held the strings in hand with the Original Storyville Band , the Burgundy Street Jazz Band and other formations, without ever acting formally as a band leader. For almost four decades he performed in Vienna's Jazzland with American old-time and swing musicians such as Alton Purnell , Louis Nelson , Dick Wellstood , Art Hodes , Wild Bill Davison , Ralph Sutton , Allan Vaché , Ken Peplowski and Johnny Varro . Terharen was involved in five recordings between 1968 and 1999, according to Tom Lord .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Obituary, Jazz Podium 9/2014, p. 41. According to information from the family, he was born in 1933.
2. ↑ Andreas Felber The Viennese Free Jazz Avantgarde: Revolution in the Back Room p. 25
3. ↑ Personal entry SRA
4. ↑ Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography