»I am a musician who was in a concentration camp. Not a concentration camp inmate who makes music,« Coco Schumann (1924-2018) always emphasised. During National Socialism, jazz was considered »degenerate music«, but he played it anyway. In March 1943, Coco Schumann was denounced and deported to Theresienstadt. He joined the jazz band »Ghetto Swingers«, which was founded there. The music initially protected Coco from deportation to an extermination camp. He was sent to Auschwitz in 1944 and continued to make music there. He survived the hells of the concentration camp and after the war became the first German electric guitarist, made the first German modern jazz recordings with Helmut Zacharias and played in a Heinz Erhardt film. Alexander Kranich tells the story of this exceptional guitarist and will play Schumann’s original guitar from the 1940s at the concert.
PERFORMERS
Alexander Kranich guitar
Samantha Wright clarinet
Max Jalaly bass
Axel Reichard piano
Andy Smyrek drums
PROGRAM
Coco Schumann
Meine Gitarre erzählt
Coco Schumann
Coco Nuts
Fats Waller
Honeysuckle Rose
Coco Schumann
Au Revoir, Mon Amour
George Gershwin
I Got Rhythm
Sholom Secunda
Bei Mir Bist du Schön
Sebastián Iradier
La Paloma
- Interval -
Coco Schumann
Jedes liebe Wort
Wassili Pawlowitsch Solowjow-Sedoi
Moskauer Nächte
Coco Schumann
Westwind
Coco Schumann
Stripper Blues
Helmut Zacharias
Helmy's Bebop Nr. 1
Coco Schumann
Cafe Mexicana
Gregor Cornely
Das ist die Musik von heute
