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Efim Schachmeister Jazz-Symphonie Orch.- Die Perle vom Lido, 1928

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Channel: 240252 · 2015 · Music

Efim Schachmeister m.s. Jazz-Symphonie Orchester – Die Perle vom Lido [The Pearl From the Lido] Slowfox (Springefeld), Grammophon 1928 (Germany)

NOTE: "Efim" Schachmeister (real name Chaim Chaissowski) was born in 1984 Kiev, then in the Tzarist Russian Empire, to a Jewish-Romanian family. In age of 16 he was sent by his parents to the renowned Stern Conservatory in Berlin, where until 1913 he studied in the class of violin.  In 1915, he joined the popular Popescu dance orchestra, and in 1923 he established his own dance band, which was also billed as Sascha Elmo or Joan Florescu orchestra.  After the successful  tour in Germany in 1924, Schachmeister’s dance orchestra started performing in Excelsior Hotel in Berlin - a contract followed by equally prestigeous engagements in Palais de Danse, Barberina or Pavillon Mascotte.  Through all the Roaring Twenties and until the takeover of power in Germany in 1933 by Adolf Hitler’s NSDAP, Efim Schachmeister’s band was considered as one of Top Ten Berlin’s dance orchestras of the time, on par with such masters of German Jazz Age as Marek Weber, Paul Godwin, Dajos Bela, Julian Fuhs or Eric Borchardt.  He also recorded prolifically for the Polydor and Deutsche Grammophon, soon acquiring a honorary title of "King of the Dance Violin”. In fact, his arrangements were usually a richly-instrumentalised, hot and danceable blends of the salon music and  jazzy rythms (in Weimar Germany such style had its own characteristic name, the “Jazz-Symphonie”). In his orchestra, employed were in various times the best musicians available in Berlin, such as trumpeter Louis de Vries, the trombonist Henri van den Bossche, the banjo player "Mike" Danzi. In 1933, when the Nazi Party won the national election, Efim Schachmeister emigrated from Germany to Belgium, then to Luxembourg and in 1936 he joined two of his compatriots and fellow bandleaders from Berlin: Dajos Bela (ne Leo Golzmann) and Sam Baskini (ne Samueal Baskind) on their way to Latin America. Unfortunately, several years later in 1944 he suddenly died in Buenos Aires, in age of 50.

Efim Schachmeister Jazz-Symphonie Orch.- Die Perle vom Lido, 1928

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