Willi Fruth

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Wilhelm "Willi" Fruth (born April 21, 1925 in Munich ; † September 9, 2014 ) was a German jazz musician ( clarinet , accordion , composition ), music producer and publisher, who is best known for his productions at MPS .

Live and act

Fruth studied clarinet at the Munich Music Academy from 1939 to 1942 before he was drafted into military service in World War II . From 1946 he led his own bands; he then worked in Switzerland for ten years. In 1963 he became the head of production of the record label SABA and in 1968 of the jazz label MPS, which emerged from this, for which he also worked as a sound engineer. He produced recordings that were considered groundbreaking internationally. With Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer he founded the music publisher Edition Swington , which published the recorded compositions of the musicians and which later belonged to him alone. After the end of the label activities in 1981 he worked as a publisher and continued to work as a composer. He has composed more than 200 titles, including for Erwin Lehn ( Swing Sketch ) and Nelson Riddle ( Romantic Places ).

Discography (selection)

  • Little Darling (later republished under the title Keep Swinging , with Rudi Risavy, Mita Matejic, Mackie Ruff, Peter Witte , Charly Antolini , Otto Weiss, Hans Lehmann, Berni Prock, Art Van Damme , Paul Reinhardt, W. Goldmann, Rudi Thiem, Heribert Thusek, 1956–1963).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.hanrieder-kondolenzen.de/wilhelm_fruth Archived copy ( memento of the original from August 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.johann-baptist.de
  2. ↑ cf. Hans-Jürgen Schaal Black sounds from the Black Forest. The MPS label or: How do you become a German jazz producer? (1994)
  3. ^ Friends of Eugene Cicero
personal data
SURNAME Fruth, Willi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fruth, Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician, music producer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 2014