German radio was very much under government control, quasi the same as the BBC. American jazz was NOT available, even though no one had diffuculties buying 78rpm records in Switzerland and bringing them in. The Jazz scene in Germany actually flourished in those days what with world-class orchestras (Willie Stech, Erich Bauschke, Freddie Brocksieper or the great Italian tenor saxophone player Tullio Mobiglia etc) playing and recording. The last Jazz recordings were made by Freddie Brocksieper in Berlin in early 1943, during an air raid! It is more than weird, that NO information seems to exist on Lubo D´Orio even though his name pops up all over the internet; as far as info on any of the others goes, it is very difficuly to find any at all – much like the painters of the era, a blanket of silence seems to have deliberately been spread over them. Gerry Frederics
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