South West Oldtime Allstars - "100 Jahre Louis Armstrong Hot5"

In the organizer's words:

South West Oldtime All Stars

Since their reunion in 2018, the South West Oldtime All Stars have established themselves as a permanent fixture on the European traditional jazz scene, with well over 200 concerts since then. Originally from the southwest of Germany ("THE LAND"), the musicians have all studied jazz and love all variations of "classic jazz". In addition to the regular SWOAS line-up, numerous welcome guests enrich the concerts.

In the first three CD recordings, the band deals exclusively with the repertoire of Louis Armstrong's musically most important projects, the Hot5 and Hot7 from the period 1925-28 - pure studio productions with which Satchmo never went on tour.

These classics are regarded as the first jazz recordings in which the soloists were given more room to improvise, and paved the way artistically for later jazz styles.

The artistic potential that could be perceived in them helped jazz to become a music to be taken seriously. According to critic Gary Giddins, it is "the most influential recording project in jazz, perhaps in all of American music".

In 2025, the SWOAS will celebrate 100 years of Louis Armstrong's Hot5 and play numerous concerts with the original Hot5 line-up!

Thilo Wagner cultivates a 'hellishly swinging' piano style and won the soloist prize at the 1998 jazz festival in Vienne (Fr); he is also an honorary citizen of the city of New Orleans. He is also often referred to as the 'Swabian Oscar Peterson'.

Martin (Ludwig) Auer teaches jazz trumpet at the Leipzig University of Music and grew up with Louis Armstrong's music as a child and speaks it like his mother tongue. He has not only immortalized his name on a Grammy, but has also been awarded the German Jazz Prize.

Gary Fuhrmann is a freelance clarinettist and saxophonist and winner of the Jazz Prize of the City of Worms . He loves jazz in all its forms dearly.

Felix Fromm is solo trombonist in the HR Big Band and also musical director of the brass band. Steve Turre taught him the original Sam 'Tricky' Burton (trombonist of the Duke Ellington Orchestra) plunger technique.

Dave Ryan O'Hollyday Banjo was born in Bogota, Colombia and eventually ended up in Germany where he found his one and only true love - the 4-string banjo.

Martin Auer tp

Gary Fuhrmann cl

Felix Fromm trb

Thilo Wagner piano

Dave Ryan O'Hollyday banjo