Fred Arthur Braceful (May 2, 1938 – March 17, 1995) was a

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drummer.

Early life

Braceful was born in Detroit on May 2, 1938. He played in his tenor saxophonist father's band early in his career. He served in the U.S. military in Germany, and then settled in

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Later life and career

In Stuttgart he played with

Wolfgang Dauner Wolfgang Dauner (; 30 December 1935 – 10 January 2020) was a German jazz pianist who co-founded the United Jazz + Rock Ensemble. He worked with Hans Koller, Albert Mangelsdorff, Volker Kriegel and Ack van Rooyen and composed for radio, televi ...

's trio from 1963, and in Dauner's group

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until the mid-1970s. Braceful also played with

Albert Mangelsdorff Albert Mangelsdorff (September 5, 1928 – July 25, 2005) was a German jazz trombonist. Working mainly in free jazz, he was an innovator in multiphonics. Early life Mangelsdorff was born in Frankfurt on September 5, 1928, as the son of the book ...

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Joki Freund Walter Jakob "Joki" Freund (September 5, 1926, Höchst (Frankfurt am Main), Höchst, Frankfurt am MainFebruary 15, 2012, Schwalbach am Taunus) was a German jazz saxophonist. Freund began playing the accordion as a child, switching to tenor sa ...

Hans Koller Antonio Hans Cyrill Koller (12 February 1921 in Vienna – 21 December 2003 in Vienna) was an Austrian jazz tenor saxophonist and bandleader. Koller attended the University of Vienna from 1936 to 1939 and served in the armed forces from 1940 to ...

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, and

Manfred Schoof Manfred Schoof (born 6 April 1936) is a German jazz trumpeter. Career Schoof was born in Magdeburg, Germany. He studied music in Kassel and Cologne, where one of his teachers was the big band leader Kurt Edelhagen. Schoof performed on Edelhagen' ...

. He and several Stuttgart jazz musicians formed the ensemble Moira in 1976. Following this Braceful played with and

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. After his stint with Oliver in 1982, Braceful quit music for a period of time, then returned to play in Eugen de Ryck's group the Funkomatic Hippies from 1992 until 1995. He worked and recorded with saxophonist

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in the same period. Braceful died in Munich on March 17, 1995.

Discography

With

* ''Dream Talk'' (CBS, 1964) * ''Free Action'' (MPS, 1967) * ''Requiem for Che Guevara'' with

Fred van Hove Fred Van Hove (19 February 1937 – 13 January 2022) was a Belgian jazz musician and a pioneer of European free jazz. He was a pianist, accordionist, church organist, and carillonist, an improviser and a composer. In the 1960s and 1970s he per ...

(MPS, 1968) * ''The Oimels'' (MPS, 1969) * ''Wolfgang Dauner/Eberhard Weber/Jürgen Karg/Fred Braceful'' (Calig, 1969) * ''Output'' (

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, 1970) * ''Rischkas Soul'' (MPS, 1970) * ''Musica Sacra Nova II'' with

Reinhold Finkbeiner Reinhold is a German, male given name, originally composed of two elements. The first is from ''regin'', meaning "the (German)Gods" or as an emphatic prefix (very) and ''wald'' meaning "powerful". The second element having been reinterpreted as '' ...

(Schwann, 1970) * ''Et Cetera'' (Global, 1971) * ''Knirsch'' (MPS, 1972) * ''Et Cetera Live'' (MPS, 1973) With

Mal Waldron Malcolm Earl "Mal" Waldron (August 16, 1925 – December 2, 2002) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. He started playing professionally in New York in 1950, after graduating from college. In the following dozen years or so Wa ...

* '' Spanish Bitch'' (JVC/ECM, 1971) * '' The Call'' (JAPO, 1971) With Exmagma * ''Exmagma'' (Neusi, 1973) * ''Goldball'' (Disjuncta, 1975) * ''3'' (Daily, 2006) With others * ''Echoes from the Prague Jazz Festival'' with Leo Wright, Benny Bailey (Supraphon Rec, 1964) *

, ''Celebrations'' (Calig, 1968) *

, ''Girl from Martinique'' (ECM, 1970) *

, ''Langsames Blau'' (Enja, 1994) * and Mal Waldron, ''Black Issues'' (Chazra, 1994)

References

External links

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