Manfred Schulze (musician)

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Manfred Schulze (born August 17, 1934 in Schweizerthal / Burgstädt ; † July 25, 2010 in Berlin ) was a jazz musician ( baritone saxophonist , clarinetist ) and composer . He "shaped like no other the jazz scene in the GDR ."

Manfred “Catcher” Schulze in Schwerin in the early 1980s

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After studying privately until 1958, he worked in the “Melodie” dance orchestra (until 1959) and then - until its dissolution in 1962 - in the Eberhard Weise orchestra . After activities in the Manfred Ludwig Sextet (1962–1963), the Gerhard Stein Combo (1964–68) and the Big Band of Klaus Lenz and later in the Modern Soul Band , Schulze developed into a pioneer of music between composition and improvisation , which he realized independently of all musical categories, fashions and social conditions. Consequently, he was caught between the camps was too strong in his will to free play and in his expressive gesture much of the jazz coined the new music to approach, and moved away but at the same time from the imitation of American jazz, long before the in the GDR relatively late emancipation to a free jazz.

As early as 1969 he founded the Manfred Schulze Wind Quintet , which he led with changing line-ups (including Manfred Hering , Dietmar Diesner and Hannes Bauer ) until he fell ill with Huntington's disease in 1991. His compositions and “improvisation models” for wind quintets occupy a central place in his work. The Manfred Schulze Wind Quintet therefore continues to exist (including appearances at the JazzFest Berlin 1996 and the Jazz Festival in Mülhausen 1999) and maintains Schulze's unusual compositional repertoire: “Mental associations when listening to the music bring you to style categories such as third stream , get you started think the compositional concepts of Anthony Braxton without such comparisons doing justice to Schulze's music "( Wolfram Knauer )

In addition, Schulze was a member of the Berlin improvisation quartet in the late 1970s (with Hermann Keller and Andy Altenfelder , among others ), with whom he also went on tour through West Germany. Several records with works by Manfred Schulze have been released by FMP . In 1987 Theo Jörgensmann's clarinet quartet Cl-4 recorded his composition Soldier's Lament for Konnex Records . Schulze was also a member of Hannes Zerbe's sheet metal band .

Manfred Schulze was also active as a visual artist. From 1994 he lived in a nursing home in Prenzlauer Berg .

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  1. ↑ a b Jazz musician Manfred Schulze has died . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 27, 2010
  2. ↑ "So much space was devoted to Manfred Schulze because his underrepresented music, even if not under jazz premises, can be seen as the first truly independent improvisation music of the GDR jazz avant-garde". Rolf Reichelt: Some aspects of the development of free jazz in the GDR. In: Snapshot - Jazz Now / Jazz from the GDR , 1980
  3. ↑ biography manfred-schulze.de; Retrieved July 28, 2010
  4. ↑ In his review of the Konzertino album, Hannes Schweiger emphasizes that "he is a far too underrated and neglected European musician". fmp-label.de
  5. ↑ Jazz Podium February 1996
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SURNAME Schulze, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz saxophonist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Schweizerthal, Burgstädt
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 2010
Place of death Berlin