Jürgen Hintsche - banjo

"In Celle jazzt man auch ganz dufte", a compositon of OMTJ´s_Gerhard Vohwinkel, was first published in 1960. It was this song about the Jazz feeling in the small towns between Hannover and Hamburg that made Jürgen Hintsche, who was born in Celle in 1943, buy his first Banjo.

His first engagement from 1960 to 1964 was with the group Glory Skiffle Tramps, the best skiffle band in all of North Germany at the time. Other stations on his way to the OMTJ included Sister Kate´s Jazzmen (1965 to 1971), the Canal Street Jazzband (1972/1973) and Wolfgang Brinkers Jazzland Express (1974 to 1980).

He has also been a musical and personal friend of Reiner Regel for a long time before he joined Regel´s Arimail in 1987. Jürgen made many guest appearances at both the Old Merry Tale Band and Addi Münsters Old Merry Tale Band before he became a member of the OMTJ in 1997.