Horst Jankowski
Horst Jankowski, born 30 January 1936 in Berlin, was a German jazz pianist,
composer and conductor. After losing his father in 1944, he studied bass, piano
and trumpet at the Berlin Conservatory from 1949 to 1953, then joined
Kurt Hohenberger’s orchestra and later played with Caterina Valente. From 1955
to 1960, he was pianist in the Süddeutscher Rundfunk dance orchestra, and in
1957 toured Yugoslavia with Tony Scott and performed at the 1958 Brussels
World’s Fair with Benny Goodman. Jankowski’s first major hit came in 1965 when
"A Walk in the Black Forest" the English version of...
