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The son of a Greek-speaking Jewish woman and a German engineer, he was able to get through
National-Socialism as an essential swing musician. Freddie Brocksieper was considered a leading figure of early European big-band jazz. After the Second World War he led various bands in Stuttgart, Munich, and
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in 1918, and he eventually took up drumming to the detriment of his engineering education.
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in 1980. From 1964 he played mainly in trios, and often with
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regularly broadcast live concerts from his studio in Munich.
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