01h
•
Feature
Story
/Ambros
Seelos
(Jan.
30, 1935 - Aug. 3, 2015) Ambros
was born
inToeging
am Inn, in Southern Germany.
Ambros, the arch-Bavarian
(Urbayer) -- studied music at the
Academy for Classical Music in
Munich.
•••
However, because of his great
sense of Bavarian fun loving way
of life, Ambros left the serious
side of life as a designer, and
ended up on the "wrong side" of
the track and became an
entertainer/ musician and a great
studio musician, owning one of
best sound studios in Munich
today.
Work
hard -- so it will sound
easy! Since 1960, Ambros has
his own band -- and always stayed
loyal to his basic work hard and
tough principle. Ambros is not
only an experienced bandleader
and entertainer, but also a
musician that can play as a
soloist, any and all types of
saxophones, flutes and clarinet's
ever known to mankind. ••
1971
-
TheRightFix Record Session in
Munich with Ambros
Seelos
Music mixed with a
tremendous stage show is
always part of his act. With
much humor, great instrumental
soloists, international
singers, German, English,
American, Spanish, Italian,
French and Bavarian, Ambros'
big band sound and show,
becomes an unforgettable
experience for an ever
enthusiastic audience.
Ambros Seelos and his
famous German Orchestra -
excels in presenting great and
precise music - from a big
band sound to Bavarian
tradition to the most modern
of pop music, pleasant dinner
music, to the teaming up with
American singer, Troy Cory,
who never completes a concert
without finishing off with the
great "Keep On Smiling"
arrangement of Ambros Seelos
-- with Ambos playing in the
background. (Harbin Music
Festival)
----
Numerous concert tours
throughout Europe, Asia and
Arabia, approximately 30 LPs,
many live radio and TV shows, has
made the Orchestra of Ambros
Seelos one of the most well known
and successful orchestras of our
time. Ambros now lives in
Bavaria, not far from where
Sigfried and Roy maintain a
home.
•••
Chosen
as the official band for the
Olympic Games in Munich
1972 and having toured the
whole world, members of the band
were among others the great
Ambros Seelos, who also performed
together with giants of Jazz like
Louis Armstrong, Count Basie and
Ella Fitzgerald, Grammy-winning
Hollywood film composer and
musical writer Sylvester Levay
("Hot Shots," "Airwolf,"
"Elisabeth,") who also worked as
a producer for the living music
legends Elton John and Donna
Summer, longtime musical partner,
arranger and co-writer of Ambros
Seelos, Horst Michalke gave
butt-shaking groove to so many of
the orchestra's songs like the
70s hit single "Mabusso."
•••
Dirk Schweppe, one of
Germany's biggest Ballroom-Big
Band sound arrangers. Sway!
Devoted jazz musician and today's
manager of Switzerlands music
academies Alain Veltin, Arturo
Himmer from Santiago de Chile was
elected best South-American
accordion player at the age of
seventeen. CLICK
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AMBROS
Part
02hTIMELINE
/Ambros
Seelos
•
1935
- Ambros
Seelos was born on January 30, in
Toging am Inn, in Southern
Germany. (Upper Bavaria), in the
County of Altotting. He was fith
of seven children.
All
of the children had to or were
allowed to learn musical
instruments.
•••
Ambros
decided to play the clarinette.
During his apprenticeship as
plumber and electrician he used
every free hour to play in the
church choir, amateur orchestras
and just utilizing every
opportunity to play music. •
1945
-
All
of the Seelos children had to or
'were allowed' to learn musical
instruments. Ambros decided to
play the clarinette. During his
apprenticeship to becom an
electrician he used every free
hour to play in the church choir,
an amateur orchestra, simply
utilizing sing every opportunity
to play music. •
1951
-
After
his apprenticeship he attended
the Academy of Music in Munich.
Besides the clarinette the
saxophone became his instrument
of preference. •••
Ambros, the arch-Bavarian
(Urbayer) -- studied music at the
Academy for Classical Music in
Munich. However, because of his
great sense of Bavarian fun
loving way of life, Ambros left
the serious side of life as a
designer, and ended up on the
"wrong side" of the track and
became an entertainer/ musician
and a great studio musician,
owning one of best sound studios
in Munich today. •
1956
-
In
1956 a rock'n Roll wave shook all
over Germany. Paul Wuergens from
Munich, known as the German 'Bill
Haley" heard Ambros and was so
impressed by Ambros's saxophone
playing that he hired him on the
spot. For two years the band
traveled through all of Europe
and filled concert halls to the
roof.
•
1958
-
In
1958 he took over the Septet
"Jokers" from Hansl Bauer, and
from this group he later formed
his own orechestra. •
1959
-
The
first few years the ensemble
played in dance halls and clubs
all over Europe. In between there
were tours with pop singer Freddy
Quinn, hit parades with Chubby
Checker and Lou van Burg. on
their tours in Sweden the
orchestra shared the stage with
Count Basie and Louie
Bellson. •
1960
- In 1960 he
established the Ambros Seelos
Orchestra which exists to the
present day. Their musicians
partly being still the basic
line-up of the orchestra hail
from such different countries as
the U.S., Belgium or South
Africa. •
1970s
-
For
many years Ambros Seelos was
known as the main ball orchestra
at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof in
Munich. Playing at another
popular ball, the "Madame Ball,"
Ella Fitzgerald was the musical
highlight of the evening. •
1980s
-
The
following years, Ambros and his
orchestra repeatedly went on
tours in Asia, including Hong
Kong, Manila, Singapur, Bali and
Jakarta. According to growing
demand the the Septet was
enlarged to a 10 musician band
and a singer was added to the
band.
•••Ambros
is known for selecting the best
musicians for his band, low
turnover of muscians, and in
every respect is the great,
genuine boss. He is branded by
human warmth, honesty and
correctness and therefore Ambros
is loved and listened to by a
large
audience. •
1970
-
Troy
Cory appears in concert with
Ambros Seelos in Innsbruck,
Austria and shares the stage with
German singer Udo
Jürgens. •
1971
-
TheRightFix
- Record Session in Munich,
Germany with
Ambros
Seelos •
1971
-Ambros Seelos Orchestra
records with Troy Cory at the
Trixi Studio in Munich. Amongst
the songs recorded for the Album
were: Moon over Moscow," "A
Childhood Dream," "Hey Sweet
Honey, Honey," and "Relax."
Bandmember Sylvester Levay, who
later had great success with his
musical "Elisabeth," was the
co-writer with Troy Cory on
Troy's BBC recordings,
"Hurricane," "Hey, Sweet Honey,
Honey," and "Relax."
Levay
also composed, "Fly Robin Fly"
and "Lady Bump." For "Fly Robin
Fly," (Silver Convention), Levay
received a Grammy with his
writing partner, Michael Kunze.
Disney hired Levay to produce the
music score for "Roger Rabbit"
and "Howard the Duck." •
1995
-
Troy
Cory records at Ambros Seelos'
studio in Munich, Germany. •
1972
-
Ambros
Seelos was chosen as the official
band for the Olympic Games in
Munich 1972. •
2005
-
CD
release of "Swing-Night" with
Germany's legandary bandleaders,
Ambros Seelos, Hugo Strasser,
Hazy Osterwald and Max
Gregor. •
2009
-Ambros now lives in
Bavaria, not far from where
Sigfried and Roy maintain a
home.
•2009
-
VISIONS
FROM THE ROOF presents: Artist of
the Month: AMBROS
SEELOS
•••
Ambros Seelos is groovy.
So beloved in their natiave
Germany, they were chosen as the
officioal band for the 1972
Olympics in Munich and officially
funkified the
games.
•••
Their hep and smooth
musical wingspan includes Jazz,
Lounge, Afro-Funk, Mod, and
Disco. Comprised of elite
muscicians plucked from the best
jazz ensembles (Count Basie,
Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerad),
theer versatile horn playing,
slick string arrangements and
funky rhythms put them int he
same company as Peter Thomas,
Keith Mansfield and Syd
Dale.
•••
If you're looking for
nuggets of now sound, funk, mod
and dancefloor jazz, Willkommen
to the hip-shaking grooviness of
Ambros
Seelos.
•••
"Wow, dear Lord! These
gentlemen are groovy down to the
bone!"
-LIFE
MAGAZINE
•••
"Ambros Seelos' Groove
Collectionn is like watching
'Shaft' or 'Streets of San
Francisco'."
-SKUG
MAGAZINE
•••
"Easy Listening without
the easy!" 'Superfly' with
swinging hips!"
-WHIRLYPOP
3.
Editor's Note / ByLines: •
When
"Dream, When You're Feeling
Blue" was recorded in 1995
with Ambros in Munich, Germany,
"how did I know then, what was
about to happen in Shanghai.
Since then, whenever the song is
included with any of our China
produced television stage shows,
the Ambros sax embellished sound,
always sets the pace for a
romantic mood," says Troy
Cory.
•••
"In
fact, it was in Innsbruck,
Austria, 1970, when I was part of
the Ambros Show, that I first
discovered how important it was
to grab the audience with a big
precise sound."
----
Today's
Ambros Seelos Show, no matter
where it is performed, the stage
show always brews with a sense of
humor, great instrumental
soloists, and features
international singers, German,
English, American, Spanish,
Italian, French and Bavarian.
Ambros' big band sound and show,
becomes an unforgettable
experience for an ever
enthusiastic audience.
----
Ambros
Seelos and his famous German
Orchestra - excels in presenting
great and precise music - from a
big band sound to Bavarian
tradition to the most modern of
pop music, pleasant dinner music,
to the teaming up with American
singer, Troy Cory, his music is
always in perfect
rhythm.
-
Josie
Cory,
TVI
Magazine
• Troy
Cory and the Brooke Sisters paid
tribute from China, singing
Ambros Seelos hits such as:
Relax, Hey Sweet Honey, Honey,
and Sing, Sing, Sing. Portions of
the original Ambros-Swing show,
as well as the segments video
taped at the Audi automobile
plant in Ingolstadt, Germany are
part of the Troy Cory Show WiFi90
webcast, beamed from China on
XingTv.
•••
About
Sylvester Levay, who presently is
on tour with his musical
"Elisabeth." Levay or sometimes
spelled, "Lysy" or Levy" was the
co-writer with Troy Cory on
Troy's early BBC and Mercury
Record recordings, "Hurricane,"
"Hey, Sweet Honey, Honey," and
"Relax."
•
•
Levay
also composed, "Fly Robin Fly"
and "Lady Bump." For "Fly Robin
Fly," (Silver Convention), Levay
received a Grammy with his
writing partner, Michael Kunze.
Disney hired Levay to produce the
music score for "Roger Rabbit"
and "Howard the Duck."
•
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Funky
songs for private
eyes Unbelievable
but true:
the
first release on 9pm Records' new
sublabel "Brigade Mondaine" is a
compilation of one of the German
godfathers of Jazz-Lounge and
Funky Listening : Ambros Seelos
and his Orchestra. This genius of
music has been around since the
1960s and plays definitely in the
same league like Peter Thomas,
Germany's probably most wellknown
Easy Listening soundtrack
composer and bandleader (i.e.
"Vampyros Lesbos").
----This
album is the first
"best-of"-release of the Ambros
Seelos Orchestra and combines for
the first time his most brillant
recordings from the 1970s on one
album.
----Toughest
afro-funk like on Mabusso or
Guma, pulsing disco-sound in Run
and Midnight Sound (by the way
the title song of a lost movie),
and Gimme More is a trip into the
earliest days of electro-sound.
All in all the titles on this
album are a journey through the
1970s black music and all the
songs are both funky and jazzy. A
cd like the soundtrack of "Shaft
4" if it would have been
produced.
----Ambros
Seelos was born on the 30th of
January, 1935 at Toeging,
Bavaria/Germany. At an early age
he learned to play various
instruments and - due to his
musical home - he got in touch
with a great variety of
styles.----During
and after his music studies at
the conservatory he performed as
a guest musician in various bands
before he founded his own vocal
and instrumental band in the
style of groups like the George
Shearing Quartet or the Four
Freshmen in the 1950s.
----In
1960 he established the Ambros
Seelos Orchestra which exists to
the present day. Their musicians
partly being still the basic line
up of the orchestra hail from
such different countries as the
U.S., Belgium or South
Africa.
----
The Yugoslavian
Silvester Levay who wrote
a lot of the tunes on Ambros'
albums started later on a career
as a composer. Sylvester's songs
"lady Bump" or "Fly Robin Fly"
became world-hits of the Silver
Convention. Also his musicals
"Elisabeth" and "Mozart" are
mega-sellers in Europe. Troy Cory
co-authored "Hurricane" with
Sylvester, which was featured in
the Troy Cory/Ambros "Today's
Puzzle" recordings in 1971.
----On
his numerous tours around the
world the Ambros Seelos Orchestra
has been the backing band of
different artists such as Max
Greger, Troy Cory, Chubby Checker
and Hildegard Knef. Even with
Jazz-stars like Count Basie, Ella
Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong he
shared the same stage and thus
added an impressing list of
musical giants to his
biography.
----Between
1970 and 1980 the Ambros Seelos
Orchestra did not only play
frequently in Hong Kong,
Singapore, Las Vegas, Manila and
Bangkok (where they can justly be
referred to as superstars) but
also did their probably most
exciting recordings. The
highlights of the Troy Cory Shows
in China, are the songs and
background pre-recorded videos of
the Ambros Seelos Orchestra.
These "Live" shows are all
compiled on any Troy Cory /
Ambros Seelos S90tv
collection.
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