Pepsi Auer

A name that sounds like a variety show sponsored by a soft drink company seems like the last place Eric Dolphy would show up, yet the German pianist and composer known as Pepsi Auer actually backed up the innovative jazz multi-instrumentalist. It was all in day's work for the pianist in an industrious career on the European jazz">European jazz scene that began on-stage at military clubs during the second World War. Auer, who had begun studying keyboard with Hans Kray, became the pianist in the Freddy Christmann quartet in the mid-'50s, eventually seizing control of the group c...