Jazz in Nazi-era and postwar Germany, as lived by a Jewish prodigy who survived the horrors of Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. "Coco, it's not important what you play. It's important how you play it," said Louis Armstrong to jazz and swing guitarist Coco Schumann during a break between sessions. Recalling this episode Schumann reminds readers that even in the midst of real-world nightmares, music is alive and musicians experience this essential freedom and hope, which they can, in turn, give to their audiences. Throughout his remarkable life, Coco Schumann (b. 1924) would accumulate accolades, including the Order of Merit from the Federal Republic of Germany in 1989 and the prestigious Ehrenpreise Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015, and play with jazz greats Toots Thielemans, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, and others. But few knew he relied on composing music and performing for live audiences to ease the burden of his wartime memories. After forty years of silence Schumann's memoir opened a rare window into the previously unknown life of one of Germany's most renowned musicians, who was a member of the vibrant and illegal Berlin club scene, a part of the cultural revival of postwar Berlin, and a survivor of Theresienstadt (Terezin) and the horrors of Auschwitz. Shortlisted for the 2017 A.R.S.C. Awards for Excellence in Historical Research in Jazz. Includes over 50 historical documents and rare photographs.

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Coco Schumann is denoted by CS and Gertraud Goldschmidt Schumann is denoted by GG. Photographs are indicated by page numbers in italics.

Abraham, Kurt, 86

Ackermann, Roy, 140

AFN (Armed Forces Network), 68, 78

Air Base No. One, 130

Al Sibarita Bar, 79–80

Albers, Hans, 45

Alewyn, Richard, 150

Alexandria, Egypt, CS in, 124

Allen, William Mac, 92–93

alles wird gut (all will be well) secret code, 30

Allied bombing, 34–35

Allotria-Bar, 24

Alone (Stauffer), 15

Always (Berlin), 93

America, plans to emigrate denied, 87

American origins of jazz, 19

American tanks, rescue by, 62

American vs. German entertainment, 129–130

Americans, playing for, 73

Ancerl, Karel, 44

Andersen, Lale, 81

Andrews, Donovan, 95

Andrews Sisters, 26

Angel Negro (Black Angel; Blanco), 109–110

anti-Semitism

Der ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew; film), 152

Hasidic Jews driven from shtetls, 9

and Hitler Youth, 148

Jud Süss (Süss, the Jew; film), 148, 152

in Mein Kampf, 148–149

present day, 143, 145

recruiting German children for Hitler Youth, 3

Arbeitseinsatztransporte nach Osten (work crew transports to the East), 49

Armed Forces Network (AFN), 68, 78

Armstrong (Australian Minister of Labor), 90

Armstrong, Louis, 28, 68, 98, 136

Arnd’s Bier Bar, 25–26

Aron (plumber), 19

Aschinger brewpub ruins, 69

Atlantic Line travel company, 128

Atom Bar, Tel Aviv, 92

Au revoir, mon amour (Schumann), 106–107

Au Warte! (Oh My!) concert, 96

audiences, musicians evaluating and responding to, 114

Aurich transit camp for emigrants, 88

Aus der Luft gegriffen (Out of Thin Air; Hübener r...

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Dedication
AUTHOR’S PREFACE to the English Edition
HOW HIGH THE MOON
BERLIN AIR
YOU CAN’T STOP ME FROM DREAMING
AVANT DE MOURIR
LA PALOMA
SUMMERTIME
RIDERS IN THE SKY
ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET
FOOLISH THINGS
RAZZLE DAZZLE
DOSVEDANYA
AUTUMN LEAVES
AFTERWORD
DISCOGRAPHY
PUBLICATIONS, FILM & TELEVISION, AND AWARDS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX
BIOGRAPHIES

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