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Peter Herbolzheimer
12+ albums
jazzBig Bandfunkgermanbig band jazz
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Peter Herbolzheimer (* 31.12.1935 in București (Bucharest); † 27.03.2010 in Köln (Cologne)) was a German bandleader and jazz trombonist. Herbolzheimer's arrangements are a distinctive blend of swing, latin and rhythmic rock music. Herbolzheimer migrated from comunist Romania to West Germany in 1951. In 1953 he moved to the United States of America, where he worked as a guitar player. He returned to Germany in 1957, took up the trombone and studied at Nuremberg Conservatory for one year. In the 1960s he played with Nuremberg radio dance orchestra and Bert Kämpfert's orchestra. In 1968 he played in the pit of "Deutsches Schauspielhaus" - a Hamburg theater orchestra directed by Hans Koller. In 1969 he formed the "Peter Herbolzheimer Rhythm Combination & Brass" (RC&B) for which he wrote most of the arrangements. This big band was rather unique for having an international lineup of eight brass players, but originally only one saxophone with Herb Geller in that chair. Brass players were (amongst others) Allan Botschinsky (Denmark), Art Farmer (USA), Dusko Goykovich (Bosnia), Palle Mikkelborg (Denmark), Ack van Rooyen (Netherlands) or Jiggs Whigham (USA). The rhythm section consisted of two keyboards, guitar, bass, drums and percussion and included renowned musicians such as Dieter Reith (Germany), Philip Catherine (Belgium), Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (Denmark), Bo Stief (Denmark), Alex Riel (Denmark), Grady Tate (USA) and Nippy Noya (Indonesia). The basic members remained f
