Lullaby of Birdland

Freddie Brocksieper

Fritz "Freddie" Brocksieper (August 24, 1912 in Istanbul, Turkey – January 17, 1990) was a German jazz-musician, drummer, and bandleader. Brocksieper was born in Constantinople but was playing professionally in Germany by 1930, working in Nuremberg and Berlin in the 1930s. During World War II he played with the Goldene Sieben (Golden Seven, 1939), Benny De Weille (1940), Willy Berking (1940–1941), and the radio orchestra of Lutz Templin, just as in the National-Socialist propaganda band Charlie and His Orchestra. His playing style on the drums was influenced above all by Gene Krupa. He recorded with his own ensembles, both large and small, in the later 1940s; he performed for American GIs in Stuttgart, Munich, and Berlin. The son of a Greek-speaking Jewish wo… more »