Manfred Schoof (born 6 April 1936) is a German

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a majo ...

trumpeter.

Career

Schoof was born in

Magdeburg Magdeburg (; nds, label= Low Saxon, Meideborg ) is the capital and second-largest city of the German state Saxony-Anhalt. The city is situated at the Elbe river. Otto I, the first Holy Roman Emperor and founder of the Archdiocese of Mag ...

, Germany, and studied music in

Kassel Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel and the district of the same name and had 201,048 inhabitants in December 2 ...

and

Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 millio ...

, where one of his teachers of the big band leader Kurt Edelhagen. Schoof performed on Edelhagen's radio program and toured with Gunter Hampel. In the 1960s he started a

free jazz Free jazz is an experimental approach to jazz improvisation that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s when musicians attempted to change or break down jazz conventions, such as regular tempos, tones, and chord changes. Musicians dur ...

band with Alexander von Schlippenbach and Gerd Dudek which became the basis for Manfred Schoof Orchestra. From 1969 to 1971 he was a member of the George Russell Orchestra. He has also worked with Jasper Van't Hof and the Globe Unity Orchestra. He composed classical music for Berlin Philharmonic. His group has participated in performances of '' Die Soldaten'', an operatic work by the contemporary composer

Bernd Alois Zimmermann Bernd Alois Zimmermann (20 March 1918 – 10 August 1970) was a German composer. He is perhaps best known for his opera '' Die Soldaten'', which is regarded as one of the most important German operas of the 20th century, after those of Berg. As ...

. He was featured in a profile on composer Graham Collier in the 1985

Channel 4 Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network operated by the state-owned enterprise, state-owned Channel Four Television Corporation. It began its transmission on 2 November 1982 and was established to provide a four ...

documentary 'Hoarded Dreams' Since 2007 he has been chairman of the Union Deutscher Jazzmusiker. He has been a professor in

since 1990.

Discography

As leader

* ''Voices'' (CBS, 1966) * ''Manfred Schoof Sextet'' (Wergo, 1967) * ''European Echoes'' (FMP, 1969) * ''Distant Thunder'' (Enja, 1975) * ''Scales'' (ECM, 1976) * ''Light Lines'' (Japo, 1978) * ''The Early Quintet'' (FMP, 1978) * ''Horns'' with Gunter Christmann, Albert Mangelsdorff (FMP, 1979) * ''Horizons'' (Japo, 1980) * ''Mal Waldron/Manfred Schoof'' (Amiga, 1980) * ''Reflections'' (Mood, 1984) * ''Power Station'' (UBM, 1984) * ''Meditation'' (UBM, 1987) * ''Shadows & Smiles'' (Wergo, 1989) * ''Timebreaker'' (UBM, 1990) * ''Crossroad'' (UBM, 1992)

As sideman

With

European Jazz Ensemble The European Jazz Ensemble is an ensemble of jazz musicians. History Formed in 1976. The original members comprised the quintet of Alan Skidmore, Leszek Zadlo, Gerd Dudek, Alfred "Ali" Haurand and Pierre Courbois. After 1982 three of the memb ...

* ''Live'' (Konnex, 1988) * ''At the Philharmonic Cologne'' (MA Music, 1989) * ''Meets the Khan Family'' (MA Music, 1992) * ''20th Anniversary Tour'' (Konnex, 1997) * ''30th Anniversary Tour 2006'' (Konnex, 2009) With Globe Unity Orchestra * ''Live in Wuppertal'' (FMP, 1973) * ''Der Alte Mann Bricht...Sein Schweigen'' (FMP, 1974) * ''Bavarian Calypso/Good Bye'' (FMP, 1975) * ''Pearls'' (FMP, 1977) * ''Improvisations'' (Japo, 1978) * ''Hamburg '74'' (FMP, 1979) * ''Compositions'' (Japo, 1980) * ''Globe Unity 2002'' (Intakt, 2003) * ''Baden-Baden '75'' (FMP, 2011) With George Gruntz * ''Happening Now!'' (Hat ART, 1988) * '' First Prize'' (Enja, 1989) * ''Renaissance Man'' (TCB, 2002) With Gunter Hampel * ''Heartplants'' (SABA, 1965) * ''Transformation'' (Birth, 1976) * ''Jubilation'' (Birth, 1983) * ''Legendary: The 27th of May 1997'' (Birth, 1998) * ''Live at Berlin Philharmonic Hall'' (Birth, 2014) With Irmin Schmidt * ''Filmmusik Vol. 2'' (Spoon, 1981) * ''Filmmusik Vol. 3 & 4'' (Spoon, 1983) * ''Rote Erde'' (Teldec, 1983) * ''Musk at Dusk'' (WEA, 1987) With Jasper van 't Hof * ''Pili-Pili'' (Keytone, 1984) * ''Hoomba-Hoomba'' (Virgin, 1985) * ''Jakko'' (Jaro, 1987) With Alexander von Schlippenbach * ''Globe Unity'' (SABA, 1967) * ''The Living Music'' (Quasar, 1969) * ''Globe Unity 67 & 70'' (Atavistic, 2001) * ''Globe Unity 40 Years'' (Intakt, 2007) * ''Blue Hawk'' (Jazzwerkstatt, 2011) * ''Globe Unity 50 Years'' (Intakt, 2018) With others * Peter Brotzmann, ''In a State of Undress'' (FMP, 1989) * Don Cherry, '' Actions'' (Philips, 1971) * Graham Collier, '' Hoarded Dreams'' (Cuneiform, 2007) *

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 ...

, ''80 Jahre Das Jubilaumskonzert'' (Timba, 2017) *

Miles Davis Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of musi ...

Quincy Jones Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American record producer, musician, songwriter, composer, arranger, and film and television producer. His career spans 70 years in the entertainment industry with a record of 80 Grammy Award n ...

, ''Live at Montreux'' (Warner 1991) * Gabi Delgado-López, ''Mistress'' (Virgin, 1982) *

Dissidenten Dissidenten are a German rock band known for their collaborations with Middle Eastern, African and Indian musicians. In a 1988 article for ''The New York Times'', music critic Stephen Holden acknowledged the band as being among the leaders of wha ...

, ''Instinctive Traveler'' (Exil, 1997) *

Stan Getz Stanley Getz (February 2, 1927 – June 6, 1991) was an American jazz saxophonist. Playing primarily the tenor saxophone, Getz was known as "The Sound" because of his warm, lyrical tone, with his prime influence being the wispy, mellow timbre o ...

Francy Boland François Boland (6 November 1929 – 12 August 2005) was a classically trained Belgian jazz composer and pianist. He first gained notice in 1949 and worked with Belgian jazz greats like Bobby Jaspar, and in 1955 he joined Chet Baker's quintet. M ...

, Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band, '' Change of Scenes'' (Verve, 1971) *

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 boo ...

, ''Albert Mangelsdorff'' (Fabbri Editori, 1981) * George Russell, '' Electronic Sonata for Souls Loved by Nature'' (Flying Dutchman, 1971) * Gunter Sommer, ''Le Piccole Cose Live at Theater Gutersloh'' (Intuition, 2017) * Gunter Baby Sommer, ''Peitzer Grand Mit Vieren'' (Jazzwerkstatt, 2009) *

Heiner Stadler Heiner Stadler (April 9, 1942 – February 18, 2018) was a jazz composer, record producer, pianist and arranger whose work has traversed genres including jazz, blues and country, baroque, classical, romantic and contemporary classical music. He wa ...

, ''Retrospection'' (Tomato, 1989) * Fredy Studer, Christy Doran, ''Half a Lifetime'' (Unit, 1994) *

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 ...

, ''

Hard Talk ''HARDtalk'' is a BBC television and radio programme broadcast on the BBC News Channel, on BBC World News, and on the BBC World Service. Broadcast times and days vary, depending on broadcasting platform and geographic location. ''HARDtalk'' i ...

'' (Enja, 1974) * Mal Waldron, '' One-Upmanship'' (Enja, 1977) *

, ''Requiem fur Einen Jungen Dichter'' (Wergo, 1989)

References

External links

FMP releases
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