In 1935 the Luftwaffe's Musikkorps were keen to announce their arrival and introduced a distinctive style of brass music to emphasise this newest arm of the Wehrmacht. The newly-appointed Luftwaffenmusikinspizient Prof. Hans Felix Husadel, un-bound by the strict tradition of the army, set about 'freeing' Luftwaffe music and brought the full range of clarinets, bass trumpet and alto-slide trombone into the musical line-up, plus the saxophone, so breaking a previously long-held boycott of this, supposedly, 'Negro instrument'.
With the enthusiastic support of Herman Göring, a change to the construction of existing instruments was also made and the much-beloved traditional rotary valves were replaced on the bass trumpet by pump valves! In a further move, Husadel engaged composers who would write specifically for the new arm to develop a modern style of military band music more similar to the American 'Sousa' style than the old traditional Prusso-German marches.
With Prof. Husadel's modern and exciting compositions allied to his introduction of silver-plated instruments over the army's more traditional and standard 'plain' brass finishes, a much more distinctive look and sound for the Luftwaffe's military bands was guaranteed and this successful transformation was fundamental in now promoting a feeling of elitism and real pride in this, the newest military arm of the Third Reich.
All Luftwaffe Geschwader paraded both a Musikkorps and a fife and drum Spielleute and Tomahawk Films are pleased to present a further superb 14 digitally remastered tracks performed by the Musikkorps der General Göring Regiment and the Stabsmusikkorps des Reichsluftministeriums - 'Viele schwarze Vögel - Deutsche Piloten - Marsch des Jagdgeschwaders 'Richthofen' - Fallschirmjäger greifen an - Stuka vor! - Lied der Junkers 88 - Rot scheint die Sonne - Flieger sind Sieger - Es blitzen die stählernen Schwingen - Bomben auf Engeland! - Lied der Flak-Artillerie - Flieger sein heisst Sieger sein - Lied der Junker Flugwerke and Ich hatt einen Kameraden ...