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Erwin Lehn (8 June 1919,

Grünstadt Grünstadt ( pfl, Grinnschdadt) is a town in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany with roughly 13,200 inhabitants. It does not belong to any ''Verbandsgemeinde'' – a kind of collective municipality – but is nonetheless th ...

– 20 March 2010) was a German jazz composer, bandleader and musician. On 1 April 1951 he established the ''Südfunk dance orchestra'' of the

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in Stuttgart, which he directed until 1992. With the start of a new public broadcasting corporation, the

Südwestrundfunk Südwestrundfunk (SWR; ''Southwest Broadcasting'') is a regional public broadcasting corporation serving the southwest of Germany , specifically the federal states of Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate. The corporation has main offices ...

, the name of the " Südfunk Tanzorchester" was changed to "SWR Big Band".

Discography

*1966: ''Musicals on Parade'' ( MPS) *1968: ''Beat Flames'' (MPS) *1973: ''Color in Jazz'' (MPS)

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* 1919 births 2010 deaths People from Bad Dürkheim (district) German jazz composers Male jazz composers German conductors (music) German male conductors (music) German jazz bandleaders People from the Palatinate (region) 20th-century German male musicians 20th-century German musicians {{jazz-musician-stub