Manfred Ludwig sextet

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The Manfred Ludwig Sextet was a relevant jazz ensemble in the GDR in the 1960s , later a pure dance band.

The band was formed in early 1962 after the Eberhard Weise orchestra broke up in 1961 . The group initially included the saxophonists Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky and Manfred Schulze , the trumpeter Heinz Becker , Siegfried Labrod (piano), Ulrich Türkowsky (bass) and Werner Gasch (drums). The name of the group was composed of the first names of the two founders and saxophonists. Within a year, the Manfred Ludwig Sextet led by Petrowsky was one of the most important jazz groups in the GDR. As early as 1963 and 1964, the group gave three-month tours in what was then the ČSSR , where radio and television recordings were made. A first Amiga disk was recorded in 1963. In 1964, the Manfred Ludwig Sextet was given the opportunity to record an LP with the American singer Dorothy Ellison . This makes the Manfred Ludwig Sextet one of the few bands that were given the opportunity to record jazz records at that time.

From 1963 the band formed the core of the modern jazz big band composed and led by Klaus Lenz . Since the sextet increasingly had to play jazz concerts as well as dance evenings for reasons of the GDR's cultural policy, Petrowsky founded a "band within the band" in 1966, which played exclusively jazz music in quintets or quartets. According to Petrowsky, the music of this core group moved “within modern bop , but in the one who knows about Dolphy , Coleman , Shepp , Henderson and occasionally risks an excursion into areas of free jazz, but not without finding its way back to the center. "

In 1970 both founders left the group to play more freely. The sextet lasted until 1990 and belonged to the top of the GDR as a show band.

Wolf Hudalla (baritone saxophone), Herbert Rößner (trumpet), Klaus Lenz (trumpet), Hermann Anders (trumpet), Conny Bauer (guitar, vocals, possibly trombone), Max Tolsdorf (guitar), Siegfried Groß ( Piano), Winfried Berger (piano), Armin Baptist (piano), Reinhard Lakomy (piano), Wolfgang Winkler (drums), Klaus Lübke (drums), Günter Sommer (drums) and Manfred Schmidt (drums).

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