Manfred Schoof

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Manfred Schoof at Jazz im Palmengarten (2018)

Manfred Schoof (born April 6, 1936 in Magdeburg ) is a German jazz trumpeter (also flugelhorn , cornet ) and is considered "the great romantic among the jazz avant-garde working in Germany " ( Hans Kumpf ). He also emerged as a composer. From 1990 he worked as a professor at the Cologne University of Music .

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Schoof studied from 1955 to 1957 at the Music Academy in Kassel , from 1958 to 1963 at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne, where he studied composition with Bernd Alois Zimmermann . He first played with Fritz Münzer and Gunter Hampel as well as Harald Banter . He founded his first quintet in 1965; this group, which only existed until 1967, was trend-setting and significantly involved in the development of free jazz in Europe. “Carried by an elaborate compositional frame of reference and great care for formal details”, his music, documented on three albums, is “quite in balance between construction and compositional freedom.” Schoof continued to work with artists such as Albert Mangelsdorff , Peter Brötzmann , Mal Waldron , Irène Schweizer , Alexander von Schlippenbach , the Kenny Clarke / Francy Boland Big Band , the Gil Evans Orchestra , the German Allstars and the George Russell Sextet. He has also been a member of the Globe Unity Orchestra since it was founded in 1966 . He also worked for Kurt Edelhagen as an arranger and soloist .

Schoof's interpretations of various works of New Music (such as The Soldiers by Bernd Alois Zimmermann or Johannes Fritsch ) caused a sensation. After performing with his New Jazz Trio at the beginning of the 1970s , which he also combined with a skillfully improvising string quintet, he founded his second quintet in 1975, to which, in addition to the Luxembourg bass clarinetist Michel Pilz and the Dutch keyboardist Jasper van't Hof, the rhythm section of the classical Albert Mangelsdorff quintets ( Günter Lenz and Ralf Hübner ). The record Scales recorded with this quintet was awarded the Great German Record Prize in 1977 as "a virtuoso and at the same time colorful music in which the intellectual and the emotional interact in a special way" . In 1980 Schoof received the 1st prize from the Union of German Jazz Musicians . In that year he founded the Schoof Orchestra and began a long-term collaboration with the pianist Rainer Brüninghaus in 1982 . Since 1987 he has been a member of the George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band and the European Jazz Ensemble . From 1996 he played with Albert Mangelsdorff, Klaus Doldinger , Wolfgang Dauner and Eberhard Weber in the all-star formation Old Friends .

Although he was a pioneer of free jazz, he has always emphasized the connection to formal models and chord material of tradition and placed emphasis on the usefulness of fully composed parts. "His tendency towards chromatics in the harmonic-melodic area corresponds to a preference for rubati in the rhythmic , which are used with a sure feeling for tension" ( Martin Kunzler ). Beyond jazz, he composed choral and orchestral works, including a trumpet concerto premiered with the Berlin Philharmonic in 1969 , and in 1975 wrote a commissioned composition for the Donaueschinger Musiktage . He has also written numerous film and television music, including the WDR hit series Der Spatz vom Wallrafplatz . He is also involved in the musical design of the show with the mouse .

Manfred Schoof has been involved in music education since 1972. Since 1981 he has been a lecturer in trumpet and jazz history at the Cologne University of Music. He is a member of the GEMA supervisory board and is a member of the board of the Union of German Jazz Musicians .

In December 2006 Manfred Schoof was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon .

Choice discography

Manfred Schoof (1984 in Hamburg )

as an interpreter of new music

  • Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Requiem for a young poet. Wergo

Lexigraphic entries

Web links

Commons : Manfred Schoof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wolf Kampmann Reclam's Jazz Lexicon . Stuttgart 2003.
  2. ^ Ekkehard Jost, European Jazz. 1960-1980 . Fischer, Frankfurt a. M. 1987, p. 62
  3. ↑ Cf. also Jörn Peter Hiekel Bernd Alois Zimmerman's Requiem for a Young Poet, p. 197 as well as times due . The mirror 43/1968
personal data
SURNAME Schoof, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz trumpeter
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg , German Empire