Peter Herbolzheimer

Peter Herbolzheimer ( born December 31, 1935 in Bucharest, Romania, † March 27, 2010 in Cologne ) was a German band leader.

Life

Peter Herbolzheimer was the son of a German father and a Romanian mother in Bucharest to the world. In 1951 his family moved from Romania to Germany. Herbolzheimer learned to play guitar and spent four years in the USA as an exchange student, and later he worked for General Motors in Detroit worked as a draftsman and was incidentally guitar lessons. In 1956 he returned to Germany.

After studying music in Nuremberg, he played the trombone in various jazz bands, including with Udo Lindenberg founded in 1969 Formation Free Orbit. He was many years as a trombonist also for orchestra by Bert Kaempfert with jazz greats such as Jiggs Whigham and Herb Geller, which he took in his Big Band, which was founded Rhythm Combination & Brass 1969. In this group, the rhythm section was ( with two keyboards, guitar, bass, drums and percussion ) the eight winds ( Allan Botschinsky, Dusko Goykovich, Palle Mikkel Borg, Art Farmer, Herbolzheimer, Jiggs Whigham, Rudi Fuesers, Joe Gallardo, etc.) compared to equivalent while the saxophone section usually on a single wind instruments ( Herb Geller or Heinz von Hermann, Ferdinand Povel later ) was reduced. The concentration on plate without a saxophone section enabled strong contrasts between precision rate and soloistic space. With this band he frequently appeared on radio and television, including Bio 's Bahnhof. First, his music was for the Rhythm Combination & Brass rather the jazz rock near ( and opened up with its combination of Latin, straight -ahead jazz and rock new listeners layers). Later he played with the band also other tones, and a classic big band repertoire.

Herbolzheimer arranged on behalf of the orchestra conductor Kurt Edelhagen with Dieter Reith and Jerry van Rooyen, the entrance theme of the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. From 1972 to 1988 Herbolzheimer was always responsible for the horns in Udo Lindenberg Panikorchester and played well even trombone.

Since its inception in 1987, Peter Herbolzheimer headed the National Youth Jazz Orchestra with great commitment by the end of 2006, he was first to the end of 2006 Chairman of the Union of German jazz musician ( UDJ ), which has its headquarters in Bonn -. , And remained until his death honorary president.

Besides being a big-band leader, he was probably one of the best German jazz arrangers and also wrote for Herbie Hancock and Konstantin Wecker. At the opening of the House of History in 1994, he arranged the song Germany, the East German anthem and the European anthem together in one piece. Herbolzheimer was also as a film composer, as for the dream house (1980 ) Runaways (1998) and the television series So they lived all the days (1984 ), works. His own publishing company he ran with his wife Gisela. Concert tours have taken him across Europe, as well as to South Africa.

Prizes and awards

Herbolzheimer was honored for his arrangements for marching music of the 1972 Olympic Games with the Federal Cross of Merit. In 1974 he won the competition advertised by the Principality of Monaco for jazz composers. For his life's work he received the 1998 Frankfurt Music Prize and in 2001 the Order of Merit First Class.

Disco printing specifications (selection)

Soul Condor, 1970 ( Polydor )
My Kind Of Sunshine, 1970/1971 (MPS )
Wide Open, 1973 ( MPS)
WaitAMinute, 1973 ( MPS)
Scenes, 1974 ( MPS)
Time Travellers Galaxy, 1974 ( Polydor )
Live at Uncle Pö, 1975 ( Polydor )
The Catfish, 1975
Jazz Gala, 1976
Hip Walk, 1976 ( Polydor )
Touchdown, 1977 ( Polydor )
Quality in Sound, 1978 ( Acanto / Bellaphon )
I hear voices, 1978 ( Polydor )
Toots Suite - Alanna
Thirty years - Live in Concert - Mons ( Sunny Moon )
Colours of a Band - Mons ( Sunny Moon )
Masterpieces - MPS- Record ( Universal)
Music for Swinging Dancers 1-4, 1984 - Koala Reco ( Bellaphon )
Latin Groove, 1987 - Koala Reco ( Bellaphon )
Fat Man Boogie, 1981 - Koala Reco ( Bellaphon )
Fatman 2, 1983 - Koala Reco ( Bellaphon )
Bandfire, 1981 - Koala Reco ( Bellaphon )
Jazz Gala Concert 1976 - Koala Reco ( Bellaphon )
Jazz Gala 77 - Telefunken / Decca
Jazz Gala Concert 79 - Rare Bid / Bellaphon
Smile - Koala Reco ( Bellaphon )
Friends and Silhouettes - Koala Reco ( Bellaphon )
Big Band Bebop, 1984 - Koala Reco ( Bellaphon )
More Bebop, 1984 - Koala Reco ( Bellaphon )
Colors of a Band, 1995, taken with Dianne Reeves

Lexigraphic entries

Wolf Kampmann: Reclam Jazz Encyclopedia. Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010528-5
Martin Kunzler: Jazz Encyclopedia Vol 1 Reinbek 2002, ISBN 3-499-16512-0

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