Biography
Jazz-Optimisten Berlin
Effective period / Period of releases: 1961 - 1962
Members: Hans Schätzke, Konrad Körner, Meinhard Lüning, Hartmut Behrsing, Walter Bartel, Joachim Teschner, Siegmar Schlage, Rainer Riedel, Hermann Anders, Bernd Wefelmeyer, Volker Kaufmann, Hans Lemke (2)
Jazz Optimists Berlin was one of the first Dixieland bands in the GDR.The band was founded in 1958 as the "Blue Music Brothers" and renamed "Jazz Optimists Berlin" at the end of 1959. Disbanded in the 1970s.