754:, Oxford University Press, Vol. 6 Issue 2 (1 April, 1988) pp. 145-158 "American Jazz was imported into Germany in the early 1920s...some two to five years after it had entered Britain or France...genuine American Jazz musicians (such as)... Mike Danzi embarked on a German tour with American bandleader Alex Hyde before deciding to make Berlin his permanent European base....As the great majority of German musicians still found jazz very difficult to master, it was Americans and a few Englishmen who came to dominate the jazz scene of the Roaring Twenties..." See https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/6.2.145 on academic.oup.com
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titles. In addition, he has been cited as one of several musicians who successfully transplanted
American popular musical genres to Germany during the 1920s. His autobiography has been cited as a valuable resource for scholars and researchers specializing in the evolution of Jazz music in Europe during the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s.
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and light music banjoist, guitarist, and bandleader. He has been cited as one of several musicians who successfully transplanted
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Hawaiian guitar. He was also capable of performing on the violin, clarinet and trumpet. As a prolific performer, he is credited with contributing to recordings of over 17,000 different
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Drummers: Jazz in the Culture of Nazi Germany: Introduction the Ambiguous Culture Jazz in the Weimar Republic (New York, 2003; online edn, Oxford Academic, 1 Jan. 2010), https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195165531.001.0001, accessed 14 Nov. 2023. Mike Danzi recalls
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Musician in Germany, 1924-1939 Memoirs of the Jazz, Entertainment and Movie World of Berlin During the Weimar Republic and the Nazi Era and in the United States" Danzi, Michael, Rainer, E. Lotz. Publisher: N. Ruecker. 1986 p. 169 Memoirs of Michael Danzi on Google
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English saxophonist named Billy Bartholomew during a visit to a cellar cabaret in Hamburg while traveling to Munich. Danzi gladly joined them both in a performance which lasted until midnight.
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the reluctance on the part of his German pals, who wanted to play with him but now feared official repercussions" (See https://academic.oup.com/book/41759?searchresult=1) on academic.oup
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While performing in Berlin during 1925, he emerged with the Hyde's Original New York Jazz Orchestra playing banjo and clarinet in an on-screen performance within the silent film "
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Danzi played violin early in his career, including as the leader of an early jazz group called the Red Devils Jazz Band. In 1921, he switched to playing banjo and worked as a
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The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music. Popel, Anthony. Cook, Nicholas. Cambridge University Press. (5 August 2004) p. 172 Michael Danzi musician on Google Books
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