Scout Records was the relatively short-lived German

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, founded and owned in the late 1960s by the German concert promoters

Horst Lippmann Horst Lippmann (17 March 1927 in Eisenach, Germany – 18 May 1997 in Frankfurt am Main) was a German jazz musician, concert promoter, writer and television director, best known as promoter of the influential American Folk Blues Festival tours of ...

and Fritz Rau, before in 1979 they founded their main label

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. The Scout label released seven

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albums, among them three compilations, one solo album of Howlin' Wolf's guitarist Hubert Sumlin, the first solo album of

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, and recordings of the American Folk Blues Festivals 1969 and 1970. They also issued a triple-LP with recordings of the ''Deutsches Jazz Festival Frankfurt'' 1970, containing tracks by - amongst others -

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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, Klaus Doldinger Quartet, Phil Woods and his European Rhythm Machine, Dave Pike Set, Peter Brötzmann Group,

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Group, Joachim Kuhn Group, Gunter Hampel Group, European Free Jazz Orchestra of the Art Ensemble of Chicago.

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Illustrated Scout Records discography
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