Werner Rehm

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Werner Rehm (born May 5, 1930 , † May 8, 2009 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German jazz trumpeter (also composer and arranger).

Live and act

Rehm, who attended the Helmholtz School in Frankfurt and is an autodidact musician , directed the Two Beat Stompers , founded by Günter Boas from 1949 to 1965 , with whom he also went on tour and played at all the important German jazz festivals of the 1950s. Under his leadership, the group developed into one of the most important bands in traditional jazz; it was the best known German formation of this style until the 1960s. Rehm, in the opinion of Ernest Bornemann in 1954 "a fiery, explosive staccato trumpeter," also appeared in a jazz film and stylistically in several television programs (including 1955 with Claus Ogerman and Chet Baker ). In 1956 he toured Germany with Wild Bill Davison and the Dixieland All Stars (which also included Hawe Schneider , Horst Mutterer, Dieter Süverkrüp , Heino Ribbert and Thomas Keck); later he was also a guest at the hr jazz ensemble . From 1965 he worked as a freelancer. In the mid-1980s he founded the formation Five Pieces , with whom he played swing and mainstream jazz over the decades .

Discographic notes

  • That's a lot. TradJazz from Rhine and Main (Ultraphone)
  • Two Beat Stompers: This is Dixieland! (with Dick Simon, Emil Mangelsdorff , Herbert Hess , Gerd Schuttrumpf, Joki Freund , Horst Lippmann ; Brunswick, 1956)
  • Two Beat Stompers ( Polydor , 1956)
  • RhineStream JazzBand Live with Friends
  • Lahn River jazz band Lets Swing Again (1981)
  • Lahn River jazz band More Swing (1983)
  • Lahn River jazz band Keep Swinging (1985)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Michael Rauhut and Reinhard Lorenz (eds.): I've had the blues a little longer: Traces of a music in Germany , Ch. Links Verlag. Berlin 2008. p. 268
  2. ↑ cit. n. Jürgen Schwab The Frankfurt Sound. A city and its jazz history (s). Frankfurt am Main, Societätsverlag 2005, p. 128
  3. ↑ See Gustl Mayer's words on jazz ; one title is documented on Early Chet: Chet Baker in Germany 1955–1959
  4. ↑ Jazzbörse, program booklet around 1956
  5. ↑ Guests at the Frankfurt Radio Jazz Ensemble
  6. ↑ See also German jazz: Disgusted and silent, Der Spiegel 34/1965
  7. ↑ KulturPortalFrankfurt
  8. ↑ Tradition with gentle rhythms Frankfurter Rundschau , August 25, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Rehm, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz trumpeter (also composer and arranger)
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 2009
Place of death Frankfurt am Main