Efim Schachmeister
Chaim " Efim " chess masters ( born July 22, 1894 in Kiev, † October 6, 1944 in Buenos Aires ), actually Efim Chaissowsky, was a violinist and dance band leader. He also used the pseudonyms Sascha Elmo and Joan Florescu on records.
Life
Efim chess champion was born on July 22, 1894 (according to Stengel and Gerigk ) as the son of Jewish- Romanian parents in Kiev and received his musical education from 1910 to 1913 at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin. Around 1915 he played in Berlin at the Gypsy Chapel Popescu. Since 1923 he was Head Chapel, 1924 he went on a tour of Germany, at the end of April 1925 was a commitment from the Hotel Excelsior, Berlin.
This was followed by engagements in Berlin Nobel dance halls Barberina, Palais de Danse and Pavilion Mascotte. Since that time, he can also be detected in the catalogs of the Gramophone, where he soon became the honorary title of " King of Tanzgeiger " was awarded (see advertisements in the Phon. Zschr. ). Even the discriminatory Encyclopedia of Jews in the music of Theo Stengel and Herbert Gerigk attested to him in 1942, to have been a " tonangebender jazz conductor of the system time " (p. 258).
In fact, chess master rose after a time ragtime -like salon dance music from around the mid -1920s to the "jazz -train " on; he had (according to Horst Lange) times so savvy musicians like trumpeter Louis de Vries, the trombonist Henri van den Bossche, the banjo player Michael " Mike" Danzi and pianist Adam yellow trunk in his chapel. He played the violin in Gypsy Primate manner, at high altitudes the " sang " but could just as blues uniform Code of Obligations to " black " tracks deliver.
Chess master played the St. Louis Blues by WC Handy (see Grammophon 21 227, Matr 1035 bd, 1927 ), in a mixture of Mississippi and shtetl style, gives a glimpse of what the interaction of Jewish minstrelsy from Eastern Europe and black American jazz for fruit could bear. He took on record for Polydor and Pallas.
The Jew and chess master jazz musicians, hated the new rulers in both properties, emigrated from Nazi Germany. First, he went to Belgium, then to Luxembourg. In 1936 he emigrated as his compatriots Leon Golzmann (aka Dajos Béla ) and Samuel Baskind (aka Sam Baskini ) from Latin America. He already died in 1944 at the age of only 50 years in Argentina.
On March 19, 2014, a stumbling block in front of his former home, Berlin- Schöneberg, main road 5, misplaced.
Selected records
- Stampede. Charleston - Grammophon 19597 (mx 193 bm ) - Berlin, October 1926
- St. Louis Blues. Blues Foxtrot - Grammophon 21304 (mx 1035 ½ at) - Berlin, January 1928