The Allotria Jazz Band performed in the USA and Canada with a long array of guest soloists, some of whom in their own right important players in the jazz tradition, and many of whom were invited to Germany for guest performances and concert tours with the band ( see under the heading : guest stars) […]
1981 started a new era: The Allotria Jazz Band was invited to play at the largest festival in the world for traditional jazz in Sacramento, California, USA . The American audience could hardly contain itself. The band performed traditional jazz with a German accent and some interpretations of German composers and immediately received invitations to […]
In this configuration the Allotria Jazz Band was the main headliner of the first jazz festival of Burghausen, won the first price at the festival in Dinslaken and in December of 1970 recorded its first LP. For a while, having signed a record contract with the renowned record companies Ariola and Bellaphon, the band proceeded […]
What is beyond dispute: in the autumn of 1969 drummer/cook Hermann Kügler, who ran the jazz club „Allotria“ in Munich’s suburb of „Maxvorstadt“ (not: „Schwabing“!), brought trumpeter Gerhard Vohwinkel from the Spree City Stompers of Berlin into the Bavarian metropolis. His purpose was to create the musical program and assemble a house band for the […]
The musicians of the Allotria Jazz Band are all exceptional soloists, some with their own international careers. Their musical and instrumental capabilities and their unmistakably playful characteristics allow them to create a varied program of a rounded mix of well known standards and also lesser known titles. Compact full- arrangements, easy flowing and freely improvised […]
The musical interpretation of the tunes follows various influences. (is influenced by various role models) In compositions of a freer nature with head-arrangements Eddie Condon is clearly recognizable. Full-song arrangements adhere to the original compositions. But – never is lifeless adherence to tradition presented with a forced pseudo-authenticity, never is an original recording just copied […]
In the English sense it means: All that jazz! So you see, it all fits together. In fact, the name of the band derives from the jazz club „The Allotria“ in Munich where the band played as the house band for many years. But if you know the history of the band and the character […]
For over a century there has been an artist association named „Allotria“. A jazz club named „Allotria“ existed from the nineteen-sixties to then nineteen-nineties, and the Allotria Jazz Band has been around for more than 40 years. All of these institutions are from Munich, Germany. Translated from the Greek, „allotrios“ literally means „strange, foreign“. Today […]
Welcome to the homepage of the Allotria Jazz Band What have you found? The site of one of the most successful traditional jazz bands of Central Europe. The Allotria Jazz Band has been performing Classic Jazz for decades and in the jazz scene the band’s name represents „The Fine Notes of Classic Jazz“. As to […]
Die Allotria Jazz Band trat in den USA und Kanada mit etlichen Gastsolisten von teils musikhistorischer Bedeutung auf – viele von ihnen wurden nach Deutschland zu Gastspielen und Konzerttouren mit der Band eingeladen (s. unter der Rubrik „Die Musiker“). Man wandte sich ab vom engen Konzept der Vorgaben kommerzieller Produzenten und wechselte die Plattenfirma. Ab […]