Willy Meerwald (musician)

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Wilhelm "Willy" Meerwald (born December 13, 1924 in Vienna ; † September 12, 2005 ) was an Austrian jazz musician (initially double bass and trumpet , later trombone and occasionally baritone horn ) who was also in demand as an arranger and composer. According to the ORF , he was "one of the most important representatives of the Viennese jazz scene".

Act

Sea Forest was one of the 1950s to the beginning Two-Sides band of Fatty George ; The first sound recordings with Fatty George and Oscar Klein took place in Innsbruck in the summer of 1953, where he still acted as a trumpeter and bassist. He later switched to the trombone. Together with the brothers Bill and Heinz Grah , Oscar Klein, Bob Blumenhoven and singer Al Edwards, he was a trombonist on Fatty George's album Fatty's Saloon .

In 1962, Hans Koller brought him to Germany for the NDR jazz workshop on the occasion of the Ruhr Festival . Many other festivals at home and abroad followed. In 1963 he was also involved in a big band record with Friedrich Gulda. In March 1964, the “3. Austrian Amateur Jazz Festival ”for the first record recording with the Barrelhouse Jazz Band Vienna , of which he had been a member since 1963 for the next forty years. Karel Krautgartner appointed Meerwald as a permanent member of the ORF Big Band ; There were also numerous appearances with international jazz greats such as Wild Bill Davison , Max Kaminsky , Ralph Sutton , Dick Wellstood , Dick Cary , Kenny Davern , Beryl Bryden , George Masso , Doc Cheatham , Ken Peplowski , Marty Grosz , Randy Sandke , Danny Moss , Carl Drewo , Jim Galloway , Peanuts Hucko , Abbi Hübner and Eddie Miller in Vienna's Jazzland . He arranged for the Jubilation Brassband (1969) and the Wiener Barrelhouse Jazzband & the Original Storyville Jazzband. He can also be heard on albums by André Heller , Karl Ratzer 's Gipsy Love , the Mayflower Orchestra and Toni Stricker . He was buried at the Stammersdorfer Zentralfriedhof .

Discographic notes

  • Barrelhouse Jazzband Vienna, 40 Years Chicago & Swing (Sony)
  • Fatty George Two Sides of (RST)
  • Fatty George Fatty's Saloon (Preiser)
  • Fatty George On the Air (RST)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Meerwald in the search for the deceased at friedhoefewien.at
personal data
SURNAME Meerwald, Willy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meerwald, Wilhelm (real name); Meerwald, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 2005