Eddie Rosner's lyrics & chords

"In 1939, it didn't help being a Jew playing Negro music, even if your name was Adolf," jokes Eddie Rosner in 'Jazzman from the Gulag', a documentary film, which examines Rosner's life from his musical beginnings in interwar Berlin to the height of his career as a premier jazz performer in Eastern Europe to his death in obscurity and poverty.. Born Adolphe Rosner, on 26 May 1910, died 8 August 1976, (both in Berlin), he was the son of Jewish-Polish immigrants living in Berlin. Rosner was a child prodigy on the violin and graduated from Berlin'...read more