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Edmund Kötscher
Edmund Kötscher
German composer and conductor
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Stefan Weintraub
Stefan Weintraub
German pianist
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Benny Goodman
Benny Goodman
American jazz musician, band leader
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Kid Ory
Kid Ory
American jazz trombonist
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Django Reinhardt
Django Reinhardt
Belgian-born Romani French jazz guitarist and composer
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Isham Jones
Isham Jones
American bandleader, saxophonist, bassist and songwriter
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J. J. Johnson
J. J. Johnson
American jazz trombonist, composer and arranger (1924-2001)
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Modern Jazz Quartet
Modern Jazz Quartet
American jazz ensemble
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Bunk Johnson
Bunk Johnson
American musician
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Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus
American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader
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Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett
American jazz and classical music pianist and composer
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Don Byas
Don Byas
American musician
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Artie Shaw
Artie Shaw
American clarinetist, composer, and bandleader
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Lionel Hampton
Lionel Hampton
American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor (1908-2002)
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Lester Young
Lester Young
American jazz tenor saxophonist and sometimes clarinetist
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Woody Herman
Woody Herman
American recording artist, clarinetist, band leader
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Graeme Bell
Graeme Bell
Australian jazz musician
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Ted Heath
Ted Heath
British musician
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Glenn Miller
Glenn Miller
American big band musician, arranger, composer and bandleader (1904-1944)
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Count Basie
Count Basie
American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer (1904-1984)
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Ram Ramirez
Ram Ramirez
Puerto Rican born jazz pianist and composer
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Chick Corea
Chick Corea
American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and composer
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Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie
American jazz trumpeter
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Charlie Byrd
Charlie Byrd
American guitarist
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John Coltrane
John Coltrane
American jazz saxophonist
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Stan Kenton
Stan Kenton
American pianist, composer, arranger and band leader
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David Grisman
David Grisman
Mandolinist, composer, and record label owner
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Lucky Millinder
Lucky Millinder
American rhythm and blues and swing bandleader
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Kamil Běhounek
Kamil Běhounek
Czech accordionist and composer
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Clare Fischer
Clare Fischer
American keyboardist, composer, arranger, and bandleader
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Jon Hiseman
Jon Hiseman
English drummer and sound engineer
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Al Killian
Al Killian
American jazz trumpet player and occasional bandleader
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John Kirby
John Kirby
jazz bassist
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Bill Ramsey
Bill Ramsey
German-American Jazz- and Schlager singer, Journalist and actor
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Buddy Rich
Buddy Rich
American jazz drummer and bandleader
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Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker
American jazz saxophonist and composer
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Miles Davis
Miles Davis
American jazz musician (1926-1991)
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Gil Evans
Gil Evans
American pianist
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Michel Warlop
Michel Warlop
French classical and jazz violinist
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Kenny Clarke
Kenny Clarke
American jazz drummer
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Art Farmer
Art Farmer
American jazz trumpeter
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Mary Osborne
Mary Osborne
American musician
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Art Blakey
Art Blakey
American jazz drummer and bandleader
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Gene Krupa
Gene Krupa
drummer, composer, bandleader
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Oscar Pettiford
Oscar Pettiford
American musician
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Bix Beiderbecke
Bix Beiderbecke
American jazz musician
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Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk
American jazz pianist and composer
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Charlie Haden
Charlie Haden
American jazz double bassist
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Barney Bigard
Barney Bigard
American jazz clarinetist, jazz musician
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Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington
American jazz musician, composer and band leader
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Dodo Marmarosa
Dodo Marmarosa
American musician
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Jay McShann
Jay McShann
American blues, jazz, and swing bandleader, pianist and singer
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Jimmie Lunceford
Jimmie Lunceford
American musician
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Frankie Trumbauer
Frankie Trumbauer
American musician
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Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong
American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer
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John McLaughlin
John McLaughlin
English guitarist, bandleader, and composer; founder of the Mahavishnu Orchestra
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Jimmy Heath
Jimmy Heath
American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger and big band leader
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Joseph Petit
Joseph Petit
American musician
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Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet
American jazz musician
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Ray Brown
Ray Brown
American jazz double bassist and cellist
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Ben Webster
Ben Webster
American saxophonist
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Fletcher Henderson
Fletcher Henderson
American pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer
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Red Norvo
Red Norvo
American musician
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Jimmy Dorsey
Jimmy Dorsey
American clarinetist, alto saxophonist, bandleader, and composer, brother of Tommy Dorsey
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Dick Willebrandts
Dick Willebrandts
Dutch pianist
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Joe Venuti
Joe Venuti
jazz violinist
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Jean-Luc Ponty
Jean-Luc Ponty
French musician
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Mulgrew Miller
Mulgrew Miller
American pianist
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Johnny Frigo
Johnny Frigo
American jazz musician
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Chet Baker
Chet Baker
American jazz trumpeter and vocalist (1929-1988)
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Can
Can
German experimental rock band
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Ted Weems
Ted Weems
American musician, bandleader
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John Lewis
John Lewis
American jazz pianist, composer and arranger
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Chris Barber
Chris Barber
English trombonist
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Buster Williams
Buster Williams
American musician
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Dave Holland
Dave Holland
British musician
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Jack Bruce
Jack Bruce
Scottish musician, bassist of Cream
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Mal Waldron
Mal Waldron
American jazz pianist and composer
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Count Basie Orchestra
Count Basie Orchestra
American big band led by Count Basie
Erhard Bauschke
German musician

Erhard Bauschke

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German musician
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Music

Erhard Bauschke (September 27, 1912 in Breslau – October 7, 1945 in Frankfurt) was a German jazz and light music reedist and bandleader.

Bauschke learned to play violin, piano, and saxophone as a student in Breslau, and played with José Wolff in 1931 and James Kok in 1934. Kok departed Germany under duress in 1935, after which Bauschke became the leader of his orchestra; he toured widely in Germany and along the Baltic coast, and was the house band at Moka Efti in Berlin from 1936 to 1939. He recorded copiously for Deutsche Grammophon in the late 1930s; some of the recordings are of hot jazz, which was derided by the Nazis as degenerate music.

Most of Bauschke's band was conscripted at the outset of World War II, and he dissolved his group in 1940; he continued recording numbers with studio groups into the following year. During the war he was taken into a prisoner of war camp by occupying American forces, and after being released, led dance bands for clubs servicing United States military personnel. He died in a car crash in October 1945.