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Kurt Edelhagen: Decades ago, the man was already something that did not even exist as a job description at that time: a real pop star. Because he popularized a genre that was not yet known in post-war Germany. Kurt Edelhagen, born in 1920, established the big band sound in the young German Federal Republic. In doing so, he oriented himself on the sound structures that were already euphorically celebrated in the USA in the 1940s. Fascinated by the sound that Duke Ellington and Dizzy Gillespie, for example, brought to the stage as a collective with numerous musicians, Kurt Edelhagen established himself as a pioneer of jazz in Germany shortly after the end of the second world war.
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