A Swiss drummer who's played in traditional and swing bands with European, expatriate and visiting American players. He recorded in Switzerland with
Bill Coleman in the the '50s, and played in the dixieland group
The Tremble Kids in the late '50s, early '60s and early '70s. He also played for five years in the German big band of The Suddeutscher Rundfunk. He has recorded with
Wolfgang Dauner,
Eugen Cicero,
Stuff Smith, and
Baden Powell, been a bandleader and session music and played with
Lionel Hampton and
Benny Goodman in the '80s. He once belonged to
Kurt Edelhagen's big band and toured the Soviet Union with them. ~ Ron Wynn