Results for "Erwin Lehn"

Erwin Lehn

Born: June 8, 1919

Orchester Kurt Edelhagen: Big Bands Live

by Jack Bowers
July 28, 2013

Maestro Kurt Edelhagen's Orchestra was a band for its time, deftly blending elements of swing, pop and jazz to help move Germany--at least the Western part of it--away from Nazi strictures and toward a more open-handed environment that not only tolerated but nourished the country's alliance to big-band music that spawned a wide array of world-class ...

The "Desert Island" Revisited

by Jack Bowers
May 7, 2012

Back in the last millennium, shortly after this column first saw the light of day, I posted a list of twenty “desert island" albums, those that would be snugly ensconced in a crash-proof, water-tight carrying case should yours truly ever be marooned on a miniature atoll with nothing to relieve the boredom save palm trees, coconuts, ...

Toshiko Akiyoshi: The Music Keeps Her Young

by Jack Bowers
August 2, 2010

Pianist Billy Taylor, now in his eighty-ninth year, once recorded an album titled Music Keeps Us Young. I'm a firm believer in that and could point to several notable examples, one of whom is composer / pianist / bandleader Toshiko Akiyoshi who was in Albuquerque and Santa Fe last month with husband Lew Tabackin to headline ...

Strike Up the (Unsung) Bands

by Jack Bowers
December 5, 2009

The big band era is known for producing a number of enormously successful ensembles whose leaders were household names: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Fletcher Henderson, then on through Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, the brothers Jimmy Dorsey and Tommy Dorsey, Charlie Barnet, Artie Shaw, Harry James, Cab Calloway, Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie and, ...

Let 'Em Swing!

By Erwin Lehn

Label: CK Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Opus One; Lester Leaps In; Ciribiribin; Drum Boogie; You Are Too Beautiful; Jumpin

Erwin Lehn Orchestra: Let 'Em Swing!

by Jack Bowers
November 27, 2006

Let 'Em Swing! surveys the early years (1951-65) of bandleader/vibraphonist Erwin Lehn's groundbreaking Südfunk-Tanzorchester, which continues today as the world-class SWR Big Band. Lehn led the band for forty years until his retirement at the end of 1991. The orchestra then became known as the SDR Big Band, and later the SWR. Lehn's entire career as ...

Im Strikten Tanzrhythmus

By Erwin Lehn

Label: J.A.S.
Released: 1984

Das Spitzentanzorchester Erwin Lehn

By Erwin Lehn

Label: J.A.S.
Released: 1963

Jazz At The Television Tower

By Erwin Lehn

Label: J.A.S.
Released: 1959