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Eddie Rosner
12+ albums
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"In 1939, it didn't help being a Jew playing Negro music, even if your name was Adolf," jokes Eddie Rosner in 'Jazzman from the Gulag', a documentary film, which examines Rosner's life from his musical beginnings in interwar Berlin to the height of his career as a premier jazz performer in Eastern Europe to his death in obscurity and poverty.. Born Adolphe Rosner, on 26 May 1910, died 8 August 1976, (both in Berlin), he was the son of Jewish-Polish immigrants living in Berlin. Rosner was a child prodigy on the violin and graduated from Berlin's prestigious Music Academy with an honourable mention for his ability on the violin. However he decided to forego a career in classical music to pursue his love of jazz.. He found considerable early success in the 1920s with the Weintraub Sycopators, touring throughout Europe and travelling as far as New York, where, in a trumpet playing competition, he achieved the runner up place to no less a winner than the great Louis Armstrong himself. Armstrong is said to have inscribed a photograph of himself with the comment 'to the White Armstrong, from the Black Rosner', and given it to Rosner. When the Nazis came to power he began the long journey east that would not see him return to his German homeland for another 40 years. Landing in Warsaw in 1939, Rosner soon headed a popular jazz orchestra and married the daughter of famous Polish Yiddish actress, Ida Kaminska. Not long after, the two fled further east to Bialystok, freshly libe
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That Devilin' Tune - a Jazz History, 1895-1950 Volume 3 (Disc 8)
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That Devilin' Tune: A Jazz History (1895-1950)
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Swing Tanzen Verboten - Volume 4
Мандолина, гитара и бас
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Soviet Jazz Legends, Eddie Rosner Vol.1
Clubbing, Dancing & Romancing
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Soviet Retro Jazz Collection (1945-1949), Vol.4
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Soviet Retro Jazz Collection (1926-1946), Vol. 1
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Soviet Jazz Legends, Eddie Rosner Vol.2
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Eddie Rosner: Selected Recordings
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Soviet Retro Jazz Collection 1926-1946 Vol.1
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Rare Russian Classics