TrumpetHarold

I have been busily transcribing Bert's solos as of late, and am amazed at the depth of this man's work. Is there anybody else here who is up on Bert?

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Harold

Tootsall

I'm not "up" on him, but I really enjoy his music. I suspect it's a generation thing: he along with James Last were a couple of "the" bands that they'd listen to on the radio whenever they got the chance. "Walk In the Black Forest" is a great tune.

Jazz Man

I think it was Bert I heard

on the radio the other day.

Absolutely blew me away!

Man he's great, what could

you tell us about him?

Jazz Man

Tootsall

Well, first of all it's "Bert Kaempfert". Here is a website that discusses his bio.

http://www.spaceagepop.com/kaempfer.htm

chetbaker

To my knowledge Bert did the writing...somone else, Fred something or other, did the playing. So, unless you're saying that Bert wrote out all of the solos note for note, which is possible, you're transcribing someone else's playing!
Butch

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Balt58

I have every album that Bert recorded from 1958 until 1979. I have been an enormous fan since I was seven years old and the week still dosen't go by that I don't play his music. The man recorded over 450 songs and about about half of them he composed.

His most famous soloist was Manfred Moch, who did most of the solo work in the mid to late 60's. Bert used Werner Gutterer on occasion in the late 60's as well and went with Ack Van Rooyen from 1970 'til the end. I'll endevour to answer any question you have about Bert, the band, the studio, the recordings...

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