Zehn kleine Jägermeister Zehn kleine Jägermeister "Zehn kleine Jägermeister" (German: "Ten little hunters/Jägermeisters") is a song by German punk rock group Die Toten Hosen. It was released in June 1996 as the fourth single from the album "Opium fürs Volk". It's the band's biggest hit, reaching number one on German, Austrian and Swiss charts. It's a drinking song, and the fact that drinking songs are a tradition for Die Toten Hosen is ironized on the album version as an interview in the beginning and end of the song. The song's title and theme are a parody of "Zehn kleine Negerlein" ("Ten little negroes",
Lorenzo Tio Lorenzo Tio Lorenzo Tio Jr. (1893–1933) was a master clarinetist from New Orleans, as were his father Lorenzo Tio Sr. (1867–1908) and uncle Louis "Papa" Tio (1862–1922). Their method of playing the instrument (which involved the Albert system, a double-lip embouchure and soft reeds) was seminal in the development of the jazz solo. The three Tios helped bring classical music theory to the ragtime, blues and jazz musicians of New Orleans; Lorenzo Jr. eventually played jazz himself. Lorenzo Sr. taught "Big Eye" Louis Nelson Delisle. Many reed players significant in early jazz studied with Lorenzo Tio Jr., including Sidney Bechet,