Biography
Trumpeter, violinist, conductor, composer, orchestra leader. In 1925-1927 he studied at the Berlin Conservatory in the violin class, in 1928-1929 he studied composition and conducting. He mastered the pipe on his own; he considered Louis Armstrong, Harry James and Bunny Berigen his idols. In 1929–38, he played intermittently in one of the most popular European orchestras Weintraub Sincopators, then organized a band in Lodz (Poland), toured in many European countries. In 1939 he led the orchestra in Warsaw, after the Nazi Germany attacked Poland, together with a group consisting mainly of Jewish musicians, he fled to Bialystok, which departed to Belarus. A few months later, the orchestra received the status of a republican group, because at that time Belarus did not have its own jazz orches…
