A mellow-toned trumpeter influenced by Miles Davis but having his own musical personality, Allan Botschinsky has been playing professional in Europe for over 50 years. His family played classical music and his father was a professional bassoonist. Botschinsky started on the trumpet at age 11 and began attending the Royal Danish Conservatorium at 14. He began playing professionally in 1956, was a member of the Ib Glindemann big band (1956-1959), and starting in the late '50s performed with Americans who were passing through his country, including Oscar Pettiford, Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon, Lee Konitz, Ben Webster, and Kenny Dorham. The trumpeter spent part of 1963-1964 in New York studying at the Manhattan School of Music. In 1964 he joined the Danish Radio Jazz Group and a few years later became a member of the Danish Radio Big Band. In addition, Botschinsky has long led his own combos. In 1985 he moved to Hamburg, Germany and was soon playing with Peter Herbolzheimer's Rhythm Combination and Brass, with the European Trumpet Summit, and with his own bands. In 1987 he co-founded (along with his sister Jette Botschinsky and Marion Kaempfert) the M-A Music label and also keeps busy as a jazz educator. Allan Botschinsky has recorded as a leader for Telefunken, Stunt, Storyville, and M-A Music and as a sideman with First Brass, Sahib Shihab, Bjarne Rostvold, Kenny Dorham (Short Story on Steeplechase), Nils Lindberg, Herbolzheimer, and the George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band, among others. ~ Scott Yanow