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Sept. 14th 2008 at the "Zehnthof" in Erftstadt-Lechenich |
Our name
Jazz for Fun expresses the playful, 'just-for-fun' joy
that unites 40 amateur and professional musicians brought
together in the summer of 1999 by music school director
Peter Estl. Our name like our music has matured quickly
to better ex press our true identity. Our original name
was an awkward and contrived acronym ERWIN derived from
'ERWachsene (grownups) IN a Big Band'. Actually, the
response to Estl's visionary call generated such a
response that a Monday group and a Thursday Group were
formed. But the Thursday group didn't want to play in
public known by such a "homemade" moniker.So
the name game adjourned to a favorite pub. Perhaps some
of the worst, most obscure group name candidates can be
blamed on the beer--'Kruses Krücken', (Kruse's Crutches)
and 'Die dritten Zähne', (Third Set of False Teeth). Yet
happily "Jazz for Fun" emerged
with concensus approval--one of our earliest succesful
collaborations. With such auspicious decision-making
behind us, it took our bandleader, Dietmar Kruse,
a skilled teacher of trombone at Erftstadt's Music School
only months to weld this rag-tag diversity into an
integrated, syncopated ensemble with a sound of it's
own-- a sound well worth hearing 'just for fun'. (We thank Tim Leach, St. Louis, Mo., USA for his assistance with this translation.) |
our bandleader: Dietmar Kruse |