Corny Ostermann, born Cornelius Andreas Oostermann (born September 18, 1911 in Linden (now part of

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)–died during the Second World War; officially declared dead in 1949) was a German musician and jazz bandleader. Osterman was active with a swing orchestra in Berlin in the late 1930s despite the Nazi government's ban on swing music. Between 1938 and 1943 he recorded shellacs with his orchestra, some of them re-edited later. As late as 1943, he was playing in the orchestra of Helmut Gardens. After his conscription into

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, he went missing and was officially declared dead in 1949.

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Jürgen Wölfer Jürgen Wölfer (25 December 1944 – 24 July 2015) was a German music writer and historian with focus on Jazz. Life Born in Eisleben, Wölfer studied education, graduated with a diploma and worked for a long time in the record industry, where ...

: ''Jazz in Deutschland – Das Lexikon. Alle Musiker und Plattenfirmen von 1920 bis heute.'' Hannibal Verlag: Höfen 2008, .

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