Dieter Scherf
Dieter Scherf (* around 1941 ) is a German engineer who became known as a free jazz musician ( alto saxophone , also soprano saxophone , bass clarinet , flute , oboe ).
Live and act
Scherf, who initially played hard bop , founded the Free Jazz Group Wiesbaden in 1968 together with trumpeter Michael Sell , guitarist Gerhard König and drummer Wolfgang Schlick . Like Sell, he transferred his “hard bop gaming experience with considerable vehemence into the free context”. At the German Jazz Festival 1970 he appeared on the one hand with this ensemble, on the other hand with Lester Bowie , Jeanne Lee , Karin Krog and others. Joachim Ernst Berendt invited him to the New Jazz Meeting Baden-Baden in 1973 . After the Free Jazz Group Wiesbaden was dissolved in 1972, he founded the Interactions quartet , which he led and which initially played free-form jazz and occasionally performed with Albert Mangelsdorff ; Emil Mangelsdorff took over his fellow musicians in 1974 . Scherf then led a trio with Paul Lovens and Jacek Bednarek , with whom he also performed at the Warsaw Jazz Jamboree Festival. For professional reasons, he gave up making music in 1975 to work primarily as an engineer.
Discographic notes
- Free Jazz Group Wiesbaden Frictions
- Interaction (1973; with Jochen Flinner , Gerhard Bitter, Mano Weiß)
- Inside - Outside Reflections (1974; with Jacek Bednarek, Paul Lovens, re-released on Atavistic Records )
Web links
- Dieter Scherf at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ekkehard Jost European jazz avant-garde - emancipation where?
- ^ Ekkehard Jost European Jazz 1960–80 Frankfurt am Main 1987, p. 222
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Scherf, Dieter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German engineer and jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1941 |