[Dixielandjazz] Eddie Rosner

[Jazzjerry@aol.com]

Hi all,

I have received the following email asking for information as to any albums 
by Eddie Rosner which are available. I am conducting a search through my own 
sources but knowing the wide range of knowledge available on the DJML I felt 
that it would be worth posting the query there as well.

Any assistance would be appreciated.


"I am writing to you at the suggestion of Paul at Lake Records as I am trying 
to locate CDs by a German-born Jewish jazz musician called Eddie Rosner. 
Described as the German 'Louis Armstrong', he eventually fled Nazi Germany 
and ended up in Russia (sometimes called Addy Rosner there) where he 
initially met with Stalin's approval, before winding up in the Gulag (where 
he formed another jazz band!). I have searched the Internet several times for 
CDs of his music and although there are plenty of sites with biographical 
information on him, I have been unable to locate any CDs for sale. There is 
one listed at a Russian record company site, Bomba, but I have been unable to 
get any response to my emails (my beginner's Russian is not up to chasing 
this up in Russian). I have also used German search engines as I have fluent 
German. As you have been able to supply me with various jazz CDs over the 
years, I thought I would try you in case you had come across any recordings. 
A French-made documentary on Eddie Rosner was shown on BBC 2 in June of this 
year, so I wondered whether it had generated any interest (from the footage, 
he seemed to play traditional jazz trumpet in 1920s/early 1930s Berlin, 
before recreating a similar band in Russia in the late 1930s and 1940s)."


Cheers,

Jerry,
Norwich,
U.K.