Otti – Life In Jazz
Otti Kitzler, 1942-1978, lived and worked in Vienna. When he was approximately twelve, he began to play the 
trumpet. This was years after he got to know Jazz, chewing gum and chocolate introduced by American and French allied GIs and soldiers. His parents supported him to become the best Jazz trumpet player. In 1964, he won the Amateur Jazz Festival as the best solo musician in Austria. Studio recordings, the production of an EP (Vinyl 196?: Basin Street Blues, Vinegar and Oil, Morning Blues, Mister Sheik) and LP (Vinyl 1969: The Horse Long Player =>) followed. His worldwide fame and success was supported by “duells”. These competitions of trumpet players profiled Otti Kitzler in the fight for top level musicians. Otti Kitzler and Franz Bilik were the founders of Barrelhouse Jazzband 1959 in Vienna. In 1960, their Jazz formation was updated Peter Hofmann, Othmar Graefinger und Horst Bichler. Whether he practiced, played concerts or with his friends in private, cafes and clubs, friends and family had fun. He was always “Hot Otti” with a perfect hearing, physical strength and breathing techniques to generate air columns and to shape tones with his lips.
The aim of this enterprise and film production effort is a biographical documentary film about my daddy Otti, the analysis of backgrounds of his life; to show references to and integration into the global music and Jazz scene; the reference of his passion for music of African origin and earlier jazz musicians’ interpretations and auditory events in the first jazz clubs; but also his ambition to collect unheard tracks from Africa at that time. Traditional music, songs, instrumental performances and musical experiments influenced his musical career.
PayPalFunding Otti – Life in Jazz
The financing of the project with crowdfunding makes it possible to let the audience participate in the success of the project: Firstly, working in archives, papers, documents, and activating the contacts should be maintained. To create a project base therefore are needed assets to promote collections of material, content creation, more conceptual work, international correspondence, telephone calls on * .mp3 and research. Image and sound material can be localized, as well as other media sources. Any license fees will be negotiated separately, please write a short email to otti[@]sybil.site to obtain more news.
Here is the link to see famous Barrelhouse Jazzband Vienna music videos:
Links to Barrelhouse Jazzband Vienna:
Barrelhouse Jazzband Vienna @ Wikipedia
BHJB Vienna Bio
