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After performances in Europe, the Americans hired the sextet as the Hazy Osterwald USO show (O for Overseas) in 1951. Shortly thereafter, in 1952, a six-month contract to Beverly Hills was rejected by the American Musicians' Union. The sextet concentrated again on Europe and played in Stockholm, Lisbon and Arosa, among other places. In 1953 the first German radio production took place at the NWDR in Hamburg, followed by the first recordings for the Austrian company Austroton. In 1954, the Hazy Osterwald sextet appeared in the German television film Eine Kleine, Grosse Reise .
In 1955 it received a recording contract with Polydor and made recordings with the Cologne producer Heinz Gietzand Kurt Feltz . In 1957 and 1958 they played to a full house at the Olympia in Paris .
The "Hazy Osterwald sextet" initially included Ernst Höllerhagen (clarinet), Sunny Lang (bass), Gil Cuppini (drums), Pierre Cavalli (guitar) and Francis Burger (piano). Later members have included Dennis Armitage (saxophone), Curt Prina (piano), Peter Beil (trumpet), Lars Blach and John Ward (drums).
Last but not least, they were very successful because of their funny stage show. About their success story in 1961 by Franz Josef Gottlieb the music film The Hazy Osterwald Story with Gustav Knuth , Eddi Arentand Peer Schmidt shot. It is based on a 1961 biography by Walter Grieder . Osterwald acted in the sextet in personal union as trumpeter, pianist, vibraphonist, bandleader, composer, lyricist, choreographer, arranger, director and producer
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