Eddie Rosner
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Eddie Rosner
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May 26, 1910 Berlin, Germany |
| Died | August 8, 1976 (aged 66) West Berlin, West Germany |
Adolph Ignatievich Rosner, known as Ady Rosner and also Eddie Rosner (May 26, 1910 in Berlin – August 8, 1976 in West Berlin) was a Polish and Soviet Jazz musician called "The White Louis Armstrong" or "Polish Louis Armstrong" in different sources. This is in part because of his rendition of the St. Louis blues. He was a prisoner in the Gulag prison camp in the former Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin.
He was born into a Polish Jewish family in Berlin. In 1916, a child of six, he was taken to Stern's Musical Conservatory in Berlin. He initially studied classical music, but became drawn to jazz by the age of fifteen. In 1920 he left the conservatory as a violinist with excellent marks and entered the High School of Music in Berlin, on the Kantstrasse, near the Opera. During the 1920s he caught the jazz bug and switched to trumpet. At that time he adopted the name "Eddie" and played with other Polish musicians in Marek Weber's orchestra.[2]
Eddie Rosner made a creative fusion of his classical music education with the newest beat of jazz. After playing with several bands in Berlin, he joined "The Syncopators", led by Stephan Weintraub, and toured around Western Europe. In the 1930s, he was in Eddie Rosner and "The Syncopators". By 1934 he had gained acclaim for his trumpet playing and ability to play two trumpets at once. During his tour of Europe in the 1930s the French celebrated his work and he was featured in many magazines.
During the 1930s Eddie Rosner worked with "The Syncopators" at the "New York" transatlantic steamer. There Eddie Rosner entertained the passengers cruising between Hamburg and various American seaports. By that time, Rosner had made several recordings of his trumpet playing with the band, and planned on starting a new career in America. To help that he corresponded with the famous American bandleader and drummer Gene Krupa. At that time, Eddie Rosner was considered the best jazz trumpeter in Europe and was compared to the American trumpeter Louis Armstrong.
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