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James Last (Hans Last, * April 17, in Bremen, † June, 9, in Florida) was a German composer and big band leader with a large fan base in Europe and world-wide.
Musica instrumental james last biography
Last's trademark was arranging pop hits in a big-band style; his series of "party albums" is equally well-known. Over the course of his career, he has sold well over million albums.
Last learned how to play piano as child, switching to bass as a teenager.
He joined Hans-Gunther Oesterreich's Radio Bremen Dance Orchestra in , when he was 17 years old. In , he became the leader of the Becker-Last Ensemble, which performed for seven years. During that time, he was voted as the best bassist in the country by a German jazz poll for three consecutive years, from After the disbandment of the Becker-Last Ensemble, he became the in-house arranger for Polydor Records, as well as for a number of European radio stations.
For the next decade, he helped arrange hits for artists like Helmut Zacharias and Caterina Valente