Walter Zwingmann
Walter Zwingmann (born March 12, 1941 in Hanover ) is a German jazz musician ( trumpet ) and mechanical engineer.
Live and act
Zwingmann resisted piano lessons and taught himself the guitar as an autodidact . He came to jazz through Chris Barber . After secondary school, he bought a trumpet and took trumpet lessons; later, Edgar Westphal, trumpeter with the Hanover Radio Orchestra , taught him the techniques of the jazz trumpet . While training as a machine fitter at Eisenwerk Wülfel , he founded his first band, the Beale Street Jazz Youngsters . While studying mechanical engineering, he played in the Blue March Combo . In 1969 he was one of the Schampus All Stars in Düsseldorf and also took part in Ollie's Jazz Gang . Back in Hanover, he founded the Swingtown Jazzmen with his brother-in-law Felix Hartmann in 1972 , who released an album of the same name on UTV-Film in 1975 ; Hello, little lady, followed in 1999 . Zwingmann played Dixieland there until the band split up in 2017 .
In 2006, Zwingmann also founded The Lulu White Salon Orchestra , which is also based on Max Raabe and has already performed three times at Swinging Hannover , but also on Gerhard Schröder's 65th birthday . He was active there until 2017.
Lexical entries
- 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 .
Web links
- Portrait: “I turn my hobby into a job” Schaumburger Nachrichten, 29 May 2009
- Swingtown Jazzmen at Discogs (English)
- Entry (rateyourmusic)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Swingtown Jazzmen give their last concert in Langenhagen
- ↑ Lulu White Salon Orchestra (Garbsen Jazz Club)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zwingmann, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz musician (trumpet) and mechanical engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 12, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |