People
Eddie Rosner
born May 26 1910 in Berlin, died August 8 1976 in Berlin
Adolf Rosner (Adi, Edi, Eddi, Adolph Ignatievich
Rosner), known as Eddie Rosner – jazz tumpeter and composer of Jewish origin.
Soon, Adi moved to Warsaw, where he performed in Esplanada and Palais de Danse. His audience was the elite of the capital of that time, one of the regulars was, among other, Władysław Szpilman. Rosner's band amazed with technical perfection and flair.
After the outbreak of World War II, Edi fled to Białystok, which was occupied by the Soviets. Right after he settled, still in 1939, he formed "Belostok Jazz", with which he spent 2 years touring all over the Soviet Union, including Moscow. He achieved great success, including gaining the approval of Stalin, what led to him forming and leading Soviet State Jazz Orchestra. However, shortly after the end of World War II, foreigners and Jews living in the USSR lost Stalin's trust, and Rosner, like many others, was arrested by the KGB in 1946, and sent to gulag, where he performed for other inmates. He was released a year after Stalin's death, in 1954.
He was born in Berlin as a son of a Polish Jewish immigrant.
At the age of 6, he started his education at Stern's Musical Conservatory in Berlin, initially studying classical music. At the age of 15 he became fascinated with jazz, and switched from violin to trumpet. In the 1920s he adopted the name "Eddie" and started his career in Marek Weber's orchestra, playing with other Polish musicians, and then played in "The Syncopators" orchestra, which toured all over Europe and performed at the "New York" transatlantic steamer, travelling between Hamburg and the USA.
Eddie Rosner made a creative fusion of classical music and jazz, and achieved perfection in playing the trumpet: he was able to play two trumpets at once. He was called "The White Louis Armstrong", as the best European jazz trumpeter of the 1930s.
In 1933, after the Nazis came to power in Germany, he moved to Warsaw, where, energetically, he set about creating his own band. His jazz big-band, mostly made-up of Jewish musicians, had its debut in Cracow, in Cyganeria café. Because of him, Polish audience had an opportunity to experience the real, American jazz, which back then was not very popular in Poland.
Soon, Adi moved to Warsaw, where he performed in Esplanada and Palais de Danse. His audience was the elite of the capital of that time, one of the regulars was, among other, Władysław Szpilman. Rosner's band amazed with technical perfection and flair.
After the outbreak of World War II, Edi fled to Białystok, which was occupied by the Soviets. Right after he settled, still in 1939, he formed "Belostok Jazz", with which he spent 2 years touring all over the Soviet Union, including Moscow. He achieved great success, including gaining the approval of Stalin, what led to him forming and leading Soviet State Jazz Orchestra. However, shortly after the end of World War II, foreigners and Jews living in the USSR lost Stalin's trust, and Rosner, like many others, was arrested by the KGB in 1946, and sent to gulag, where he performed for other inmates. He was released a year after Stalin's death, in 1954.
In the mid-1950s, he formed a new jazz band, and toured with it all around USSR; he became very popular among jazz enthusiasts, but state-owned Soviet media had an official order to boycott his music. In the 1950s, "Cicha woda", performed by Zbigniew Kurtycz to music composed by Rosner was one of the most popular songs in Poland.
During his career, Rosner published many records in Europe, the USA and the USSR. In 1988, his Russian records were published in the "Melodiya Soviet Anthology of Jazz" series. In 1992, a concert, which was based on music from 78 spinning records, took place in Moscow.
By the early 1970s, Rosner suffered from poor health and returned to his native BErlin, where he died in 1976.
A documentary about Eddie Rosner's life, "Le Jazzmen Du Goulag" ("The Jazzman from the Gulag") received an Emmy Award in 1999.
[tł: mj]
2018-03-29 19:51:37
2018-09-20 09:08:31
2018-09-08 14:58:19
2020-04-02 14:28:09