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WHEN WE WERE YOUNG (1968)

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Royal Flush Orchestra with a 10-Piece Configuration, Playing Harlem Jazz in Concert in Vienna’s Konzerthaus, March 1968

Royal Flush Orchestra, Amateur Jazz Festival 1968 at the Konzerthaus Vienna | Video Recording and broadcast nationally by ORF | 4 Tunes

The band with 3 saxes/clarinets with Hartwig Eitler, Gerhard Pirker and Claus Nemeth; 2 trumpets with Hans-Jörg Cohnen and Heinz Altwirth; trombone by Walter Terharen; 4-person rhythm group with Helmut Schwarzer on piano, Michael Schneider on banjo, Franz Hubeny on double bass and Franz Leberl on drums.”

Practicing at age 15 to get accepted into the boarding school’s jazz band

Practicing the drums in 1966/7 at age 22 with the Royal Flush Orchestra in Vienna

Jazz Mass in Vienna’s Poetzleinsdorf Church with the Royal Flush Orchestra, 1967. Screen-Shot Off a TV-Recording, © ORF.
Insert: The Royal Flush Orchestra’s Jazz Mass Singer Wolfgang Schuessel, Later Austria’s 2-Term-Chancellor 2000-2007

Drumming with the Hartwig-Eitler-Quartet at the Bar-Restaurant Passhoehe 1800 on the Pass in St. Christoph/Arlberg, March 2011
From Left: Franz Leberl | Drums; Peter Bauer | Bass; Hartwig Eitler | Saxophone; Helmut Schwarzer | Piano
Having helped to finance the Jazz-Fest Baden at the Trabrennbahn Baden in September 2013 has resulted in the award of the Kaiser-Friedrich-Medal by the mayor of the city of Baden. Habsburg-emperor Kaiser Friedrich III elevated Baden to the status of „City“ in 1480, and the medal in his name rewards achievements in the arts. This newspaper clipping is from the Kronenzeitung, 10-Dec-2013.