The Wonderful World of Frank Valdor

Frank Valdor

Frank Valdor's life is music. Sheets of music paper waft through the study of his Hamburg Office or his beatuiful house on the shores of Lake Zug in Switzerland. Notes by the thousand which he commits to paper every month. 

Bandleader Frank Valdor is his own arranger. He pre-progammes on manuscript paper the sound that will come from the gramophone record. In a metaphorical sense the notes become banknotes, since over 3 million long playing disc by the Frank Valdor orchestra is revolving on his fans' turn-tables.

• Frank Valdor has a vital, natural rhythm which was made by the Blacks and throbs with Latin American accent.
  
• His music is just right for dancing and is also good to listen to because of the way-out and very versatile arrangement.
  
• The Frank Valdor Orchestra has its own choir which sings "instrumentally" and supports the rhythm in this modern phrasing.
  
• The Frank Valdor Orchestra also gives public performances. and as an optical counterpart to the singular sound provides a Live Brazil Show, with Brazilian dancing girls in authentic costumes.
  
• The Valdor Band's repertoriure covers the wide range of the lighter muse, interpreting it in every conceivable style and yet still rétaining the original sound.
  
• "Frank Valdor's Wonderful World of Trumpets" is the start of a new series of Valdor issues. Other instruments will be emphasised in subsequent productions. "Wonderful World" is an appropriate slogan for Frank Valdor. He takes the very positive attitude to life which his music radiates. The former trombonist with Lionel Hampton and "active" player in many orchestras with a latin American flavour has learned  about and had an influence on the colourful world of music in all its facets.
  
  For example, as composer of over 1300 pieces of music and producer of more than 5000 numbers.
  
  
  Frank Valdor : "For me music is like air - it must be light, and I need it in order to live"

Liner notes: RCA PPL 2-4084 - Frank Valdor "Wonderful World of Trumpets" (1975)