Passport (band)

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Passport
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General information
Genre (s) Fusion , jazz
founding 1971
Website www.klaus-doldinger.de
Current occupation
Soprano saxophone , tenor saxophone , keyboard, synthesizer
 Klaus Doldinger
Keyboard
 Michael Hornek (since 2009)
percussion
 Ernst Ströer (since 1989)
guitar
 Martin Scales
Drums
 Christian Lettner (since 2000)
percussion
 Biboul Darouiche (since 1995)
Electric bass
 Patrick Scales (since 1994)
former members
Tenor saxophone
 Olaf Kübler (1971)
Electric bass
 Lothar Meid (1971)
organ
 Jimmy Jackson (1971)
Drums
 Udo Lindenberg (1971)
Keyboard, organ
 John Mealing (1972)
Electric bass
 Wolfgang Schmid (1972–1977)
Drums
 Bryan Spring (1973)
Keyboard, organ
 Frank Roberts (1973)
Drums
 Curt Cress (1973-1983)
Keyboard, organ
 Kristian Schultze (1973–1978)
Keyboard
 Hermann Weindorf
bass
 Dieter Petereit
Vocals, guitar
 Kevin Mulligan
Drums
 Willy Heretic
David Crigger
singing
 Victoria Miles
guitar
 Roy Louis
guitar
 Peter O'Mara
Keyboard, synthesizer
 Hendrik Schaper (1977-1981)
Drums
 Wolfgang Haffner (1989–2000)
Keyboard
 Roberto Di Gioia (1990-2009)
Double and electric bass
 Jochen Schmidt-Hambrock (1987–1995)
Guests
organ
 Brian Auger (1973, 1988)
Vocals, guitar
 Alexis Korner (1973)
Tenor saxophone
 Johnny Griffin (1973)
guitar
 Volker Kriegel (1973)
Drums
 Pete York (1973)
Drums
 Alphonse Mouzon (1988)
Majid Bekkas (2006, 2009)

Passport is a German band founded in 1971 by jazz saxophonist Klaus Doldinger . Due to the great influence the band is compared to the American group Weather Report .

history

In the late 1960s, Doldinger had presented his quartet under the pseudonym Paul Nero , which were based on blues rock and soul music . Passport grew out of Doldinger's commercial project Motherhood ; his jazz quartet was disbanded. On Passport's first album (as with Motherhood ) the then unknown Udo Lindenberg played the drums; the other musicians, saxophonist Olaf Kübler , organist Jimmy Jackson and bassist Lothar Meid came from the Munich studio scene and were z. Some of them also work for Krautrock bands.

In the albums produced by Siggi Loch and published by Atlantic Records and in the live concert, Doldinger impressed with this band "his audience with catchy melody lines over an all-captivating groove ." With electric bassist Wolfgang Schmid , keyboardist Kristian Schultze and drummer Curt Cress and occasional guests succeeded between 1973 and 1976 in "capturing an immensely popular jazz permeated by soul influences on records, the sound of which nevertheless remained recognizable to Doldinger."

From 1977 the line-up changed; initially Kristian Schultze left. With the newcomers Elmer Louis (percussion) and Roy Louis (guitar), the music of the group-oriented something on Latin Jazz and was "pleasing." With the following album Ataraxia (1978) changed keyboarder Hendrik Schaper , bassist Dieter Pete riding and drummer Willy Ketzer a . “The keyboards tend to dominate when the saxophone is not in the foreground.” Now even a non-binding “synthesizer tooting” is lamented, while the rhythm continues to make the band “one of the more audible groups of its kind”.

But no matter who was in the rhythm section, Klaus Doldinger's lead voice and the musical direction of his band have remained constant over the years. Passport has released numerous albums to the present day. In spring 2006, on the occasion of the 35th anniversary, Doldinger performed again with Wolfgang Schmid on the electric bass.

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE CH CH US US
1972 Second passport DE45 (1 week)
DE 		- -
1973 Hand made DE44 (1 week)
DE 		- -
1974 Doldinger Jubilee Concert DE36 (2 weeks)
DE 		- -
1975 Cross-collateral - - US137 (7 weeks)
US
1977 Iguacu - - US191 (3 weeks)
US
1978 Sky blue - - US140 (7 weeks)
US
1980 Ocean liner - - US163 (4 weeks)
US
1981 Blue tattoo - - US175 (3 weeks)
US
1985 Running in real time - CH27 (1 week)
CH 		-
2016 Doldinger DE27 (6 weeks)
DE 		- -
2020 Motherhood DE25 (2 weeks)
DE 		- -

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

More albums

  • 1971: Passport
  • 1973: Looking Thru
  • 1974: Doldinger Jubilee Concert
  • 1975: Doldinger Jubilee '75
  • 1975: cross-collateral
  • 1976: Infinity Machine
  • 1977: Iguaçu
  • 1977: 2 Originals of Passport (contains all tracks previously published as Passport and Second Passport )
  • 1977: Ataraxia (in some countries also "Sky Blue")
  • 1978: Garden of Eden
  • 1980: Lifelike
  • 1980: Oceanliner
  • 1981: Blue Tattoo
  • 1982: Earthborn
  • 1983: Man in the Mirror
  • 1986: Heavy Nights
  • 1988: Talk Back
  • 1990: Balance of Happiness
  • 1991: Blues Roots
  • 1993: Down to Earth (DE: Gold in the Jazz Award)
  • 1995: Spirit of Continuity - The Passport Anthology
  • 1996: Passport to Paradise (DE: Gold in the Jazz Award)
  • 1997: Passport Control
  • 1998: Move
  • 2000: Passport Live
  • 2001: RMX Vol.1
  • 2003: Back To Brazil
  • 2006: Passport to Morocco (DE: Gold in the Jazz Award)
  • 2008: Passport on Stage
  • 2011: Inner Blue
  • 2011: Symphonic Project
  • 2011: Original Album Series
  • 2013: Original Album Series Vol.2
  • 2015: En Route
  • 2016: Doldinger
Klaus Doldinger's band Passport live on stage in the Bürgerhaus in Backnang (February 8, 2020)

Video albums

  • 2010: Back to Brazil

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Doldinger's Passport - biography . Warner Music Germany
  2. ↑ Motherhood (Baby Blue Pages)
  3. ^ A b Wolfram Knauer "Play yourself, man!" The history of jazz in Germany. Reclam, Stuttgart 2019, p. 256
  4. ↑ Discussion of Iguacu
  5. ↑ Meeting (Ataraxia)
  6. ↑ Passport at Allmusic (English)
  7. ↑ Chart sources: DE CH US
  8. ↑ Ataraxia (Sky Blue) released by Passport in 1978 . ProGGnosis Release Page
  9. ↑ Gold / platinum database of the Federal Association of the Music Industry, accessed on June 5, 2016