Last became the in-house arranger for Polydor Records, as well as for a number of European radio stations. During that time, he was voted as the best bassist in the country by a German jazz poll for three consecutive years. In 1948, he became the leader of the Last-Becker Ensemble, which performed for seven years.
In 1943 he was entered in the Bückeburg Military Music School of the German Wehrmacht and learnt to play Brass, Piano and Tuba.Īfter the fall of the Nazis, he joined Radio Bremen’s Dance Orchestra in 1946. James learned to play the piano from the age of 10. We bid farewell to the man, friend and visionary, who by his impressive strength and openness, his professionalism, modesty and love of life served as a role-model and as an inspiration for many generations worldwide.”īorn to an English father, Louis, and a German mother, Martha in Bremen, Weimar Germany in 1929, his father was an official at the postal and public works department in the city. In him, the world loses a unique ambassador, whose expressive and all-encompassing language was music.
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