Wolfgang Engstfeld

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Wolfgang Engstfeld (2012)

Wolfgang Engstfeld (born December 9, 1950 in Düsseldorf ) is a German jazz saxophonist and composer.

Live and act

Engstfeld learned the saxophone at the age of fourteen and studied music in Düsseldorf and Graz, and in 1973 he received the Düsseldorf Prize for Music. In the early 1970s he founded the quintet “Jazztrack” with Uli Beckerhoff , Sigi Busch , Heinrich Hock and the Belgian pianist Michel Herr and Christoph Spendel on the keyboards. From 1978 he worked in the group “Changes” (with Ed Kröger ) and the “Wolfgang Engstfeld / Michel Herr Quartet” (with the American drummer Leroy Lowe (dr) and the Swedish bassist Palle Danielsson , later replaced by Isla Eckinger and Detlev Beier ) with. Since the 1980s he has been touring with the trio "Engstfeld-Plümer-Weiss" (with Gunnar Plümer on double bass and Peter Weiss on drums), which has worked with trumpeters Terumasa Hino and Randy Brecker , and since 1988 with the "Engstfeld-Weiss -Quartett ”(to which Hendrik Soll and Christian Ramond belong).

Over the years, Engstfeld has worked with many German and international jazz musicians, including John Scofield , Chet Baker , Toto Blanke , Rainer Brüninghaus , Jon Christensen , Wolfgang Dauner , Bob Degen , Axel Fischbacher , Ralf Hübner , Volker Kriegel , Albert Mangelsdorff , Charlie Mariano , Manfred Schoof , Christoph Spendel , Jasper van't Hof , Ack van Rooyen , Eberhard Weber and Norma Winstone .

Engstfeld's style of playing is part of modern acoustic jazz of the hard-bop direction. He mainly plays the tenor saxophone and has a powerful yet lyrical expression. The lyrical sides come into their own on the soprano saxophone (for example in the ballad and track number “Continuous Flow” with the Engstfeld-Herr Quartet). Since the beginning of his career, Engstfeld has played a large part of his repertoire with his own compositions, which are characterized by a similarly energetic lyric as his saxophone playing.

After teaching at courses and at universities, Engstfeld has been a professor of saxophone at the Cologne University of Music since 1992 .

Wolfgang Engstfeld (2012)

Discographic notes

  • Jazz track “First Call” 1975 (LP, Happy Bird / Bellaphon 5015; CD reissue Pastels CD 20.1614)
  • Jazz track "Listen"
  • Jazz track "Flying Stork"
  • Michel Herr / Wolfgang Engstfeld "Perspective" 1978 (LP, B. Sharp 1003, reissued on CD: CDS 082)
  • Engstfeld / Herr / Danielsson / Lowe "Continuous Flow" (1980; LP Mood 28614)
  • Changes "Home Again" and "Some more"
  • Engstfeld / Plümer / Weiss "Direct to Disk" a. "Drivin"
  • Engstfeld / Plümer / Weiss feat. R. Brecker "Mr. Max “u. "Together"
  • Engstfeld / Weiss Quartet “Songs and Ballads”, “Upside down”, “59:59”, “Lisboa” and others. "Poet's Love"
  • Michel Herr Quintet "Notes of Life" ( Igloo Igl 142)
  • Matthias Bröde "European Faces" 1999 Edition Collage EC517-2

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