Weintraubs syncopators biography samples

German jazz musician

Stefan Weintraub (1897 – 10 September 1981), nicknamed "Steps", was a German jazz musician (piano, drums), bandleader of the Weintraubs Syncopators and Australian mechanic.

Life and career

Born in Breslau, Weintraub began an apprenticeship in the pharmacy trade in 1913 after finishing school in his hometown and was drafted for military service in 1916.

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In August , a musician called John Kay, employed as an orchestral arranger for the prestigious Colgate-Palmolive radio show, summonsed the Musicians'.

The Weintraubs Syncopators, international musical celebrities of the s, embarked on a four-year journey across Europe, Russia and the Far East in exile.

Julius Ansco Bruinier (7 November – 6 February ) was a German musician in the Berlin Jazz / Dance music band, known as the Weintraub's Syncopators.

Why was it, for example, that Stefan Weintraub was made the scapegoat of the group, became the primary target of the Musicians' Union and the object of the.

Initially, he joined the German Rose-.

After returning from the Great War, he moved to Berlin, where he worked in the food industry. Jazz, the new American dance music, fascinated him; Weintraub was so talented as a pianist that he could effortlessly play tracks.

Together with Horst Graff, a Berliner eight years younger, who played the saxophone and also possessed organisational talent, he founded the Tanzkapelle Stefan Weintraub, which soon received the name Weintraubs Syncopators.

In 1924, the five-member band performed for the first time.^[1]

The Weintraubs Syncopators had such success that its members bec