Günter Platzek
Günter Platzek ( born July 18, 1930 in Hannover, † November 29, 1990 in Hamburg ) was a German musician in the field of popular music.
Life
As a high school graduate to Platzek was attracted to jazz. He played in several formations piano and collected incidentally experience on other instruments. The prerequisite for admission to a band once was, that he had to play vibraphone. Spontaneously, he bought one and first specialized in it. Own compositions came to modern and could be at most as soloists in the Jochen -Ment quintet, but not in the dance bands, for which he was also active. He found his way back to the piano, but also served the meantime Hammond organ and accordion. Platzek was subsequently to the same stations busy as element, namely in the Big Band of the Norddeutscher Rundfunk and at Alfred Hause and Bert Kaempfert. Ment in turn followed years later Platzek to James Last Orchestra, had occurred in the latter in 1965 after load had booked him for the production of a special Hammond organ LP. The James Last Orchestra 's successful career is closely linked. Seine from Jazzy and Rocking drifting deposits made him stand out from the ensemble and made him internationally known. He died in November 1990 of a heart attack.