Werner Dies

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Cobbler stick to your last   DE 1 10/01/1954 (8 weeks)

Werner This (* 15. January 1928 in Frankfurt am Main , † 5. February 2003 ) was a jazz - Tenor saxophonist , clarinetist and guitarist of traditional and modern jazz , who also worked as a pop composer and arranger.

Live and act

He learned to play the guitar as an autodidact in 1945, tenor saxophone in 1946 and played in American clubs. From 1947 he studied clarinet and composition and from 1947 to 1955 he was engaged as a guitarist in the “dance and entertainment orchestra” Willy Berking ; He also played in the Hotclub Combo and as a clarinetist with the Two Beat Stompers and with his own ensemble, with whom he went on a Yugoslavia tour in 1955 . From 1955 to 1965 he was a member of Hazy Osterwald's sextet (including the German Jazz Festival Frankfurt 1958), then worked as a studio musician and arranger, played with his own band in Cologne and toured with Joe Turner . In 1968 he was a member of the Charly Antolini Orchestra.

This had a hit in 1954 with “Schuster stay with your bars”, the German version of the US hit “ The Little Shoemaker ”. He also wrote a “Guide to Improvisation for Clarinet”, which appeared in 1967 in the Jazz Studio series at Schott in Mainz. He later worked for Howard Carpendale , Adam & Eve , Graham Bonney and other pop singers, produced easy listening music with his Werner Dies Sax Band (LP "Happy Sax Dancing") and also produced a record with "Kölsch nursery rhymes". Since 1973 he was the producer of the Cologne dialect group Bläck Fööss , for the first time with their first hit Mer losse d'r Dom en Kölle .

Discographic notes

• Charley Antolini: Soul Beat (ATM, 1968)
• Joe Turner: The Giant of Stride Piano in Switzerland (Jazz Connaisseur)
• Two Beat Stompers: German Jazz Festival 1955/56 (Bear Family Records)

literature

• Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler: Reclams Jazzführer (= Reclams Universal Library. No. 10185). 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-15-010185-9 .
• Bielefeld Jazz Catalog, 2001.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chart discography Germany