WDR Big Band
Paquito D'Rivera
La Fleur De Cayenne
Paquito D'Rivera obviously loves big-band music, and it suits him very well, both as a soloist and a writer -- it gives him a chance to bring plenty of color and crisp rhythm to his Latin sound. That he has a very strong band with him.
The origin of the today's WDR Big Band Cologne lies with the "Cologne Broadcasting Dance Orchestra" active in August 1946 at the then NWDR Cologne (the predecessor of today's WDR), which was under the direction of Otto Gerdes and in alternation with the Radio-Tanzorchester Hamburg under Kurt Wege in the only program of the NWDR occurred.
Already in the autumn of 1947, Otto Gerdes joined as conductor to an orchestra of the Südwestfunk (SWF). It was replaced by Adalbert Luczkowski , who had been active in the string section of the "German Dance and Entertainment Orchestra" founded in the war and possibly wanted to continue the tradition of this band in Cologne. At least the existing orchestra was called "Kölner Tanz- und Unterhaltungsorchester" (KTUO). Soloists of this orchestra included Heinz Schachtner (trumpet), Erich Well (trombone) and the saxophonists Eddie Raisner and Paul Peuker.
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