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Place of Birth: Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
About Allan Botschinsky
- Allan Botschinsky (born 29 March 1940, in Copenhagen) is a Danish jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist, composer, arranger, conductor, producer, and record label owner. His background is in classical music.
- His father played bassoon professionally.
- He began on trumpet at age 11.
- At 14, he studied at the Royal Danish Conservatorium.
- In 1956 he joined Ib Glindemann's big band, where he remained through 1959; he also played with visiting American musicians around this time, such as Oscar Pettiford, Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon, Lee Konitz, Ben Webster, and Kenny Dorham.
- From 1963–64 he studied at the Manhattan School of Music.
- From 1964 he played with the Danish Radio Big Band.While with Danmarks Radio, he worked as a conductor and arranger.
- He was the conductor for several editions of Dansk Melodi Grand Prix and conducted all of Denmark's entries in the Eurovision Song Contest from 1979-1983. In 1985 Botschinsky relocated to Hamburg, Germany, where he worked with Peter Herbolzheimer and the European Trumpet Summit in addition to his own ensembles.
- He founded his own label, M.A.
- Music, with his sister Jette Botschinsky and Marion Kaempfert in 1987, though he also recorded for Storyville, Stunt, and Telefunken.
- He worked as a sideman with Kenny Dorham, George Gruntz, Nils Lindberg, Bjarne Rostvold, and Sahib Shihab.
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