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Erwin Lehn
composer · university teacher
- June 8, 1919
- March 20, 2010
- 90 years
About Erwin Lehn
Erwin Lehn was a composer. Born in 1919, Lehn died in 2010 at the age of 90.
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Full Biography
|Erwin Lehn (8 June 1919, Grünstadt – 20 March 2010) was a German jazz composer, bandleader and musician. On 1 April 1951 he established the Südfunk dance orchestra of the South German Radio in Stuttgart, which he directed until 1992. With the start of a new public broadcasting corporation, the Südwestrundfunk, the name of the "Südfunk Tanzorchester" was changed to "SWR Big Band".
Discography
- 1959: Jazz at Television Tower (Columbia Records)
- 1966: Musicals on Parade (MPS)
- 1968: Beat Flames (MPS)
- 1973: Color in Jazz (MPS)
- 2013: Sweet ´N Lo (The Swingin' Sound of the Dr. Drew. Podcast)
Supporting work
- several works supporting pianist Horst Jankowski and the Jankowski singers
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