Emil Mangelsdorff

Emil Mangelsdorff (* April 11, 1925 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German jazz musician (saxophone, flute). With its powerful Alto - tone and finely engraved lines he recounts Martin Kunzler " to the most distinguished and versatile soloist " of the German jazz. His younger brother was the jazz trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff ( 1928-2005 ).

Life and work

Emil Mangelsdorff first played accordion. As a member of the illegal occurring Frankfurt Hotclub Combo, he joined the clarinet, which he studied 's Conservatory in Frankfurt from 1942 to 1943 at the Dr. Hoch. Due to its commitment to the jazz he was repeatedly harassed by the Gestapo and arrested in early 1943 and interned for 14 days. After the Wehrmacht and the prisoner of war is Mangelsdorff graduated in 1949 at the Frankfurt jazz scene and played with many different groups (initially at Joe Klimm, then at Jutta Hipp, the Two Beat Stompers and the Frankfurt All Stars, later in their own groups, but also with Wolfgang Lauth ). In 1966 he founded the Swinging Oil Drops with Joki friend, Volker Kriegel, Fritz hard shoe and Günter Lenz. After the death of his wife, the soprano Simone Mangelsdorff, he retired from the scene several years back, back around 1974 with a new quartet. Bert Noglik According arises in interaction with his quartet " an enormous ease, almost like heartedness, without sacrificing the depth of musical feeling and thought."

His musical development was parallel to that of jazz. Was he at first greatly influenced by Dixieland and swing, he also attacked the outgoing of the contemporary developments of jazz like bebop and fusion suggestions on creative. In parallel, he got involved in experiments such as Jazz & Poetry. This personal development is evidenced by LP recordings with his quartet and since 1958 by the membership of the "Jazz Ensemble of the Hessischer Rundfunk ". (led by his younger brother Albert) He now played mainly alto saxophone, but also flute and soprano saxophone.

Mangelsdorff was also jazz educational works; 1960 to 1966, he led a jazz class with Carlo Bohländer on the Frankfurt school of music and drew up a "Guide to Improvisation for Saxophone in B" ( Mainz: Schott 1964).

Mangelsdorff often accompanied his old companions Fritz Rau on his reading tours. About his experiences in the so-called swing youth, he has often given in schools as a witness information. In Frankfurt Holzhausenschlösschen he has his own concert series for several years.

For the film of the Frankfurt director Malte Rauch " Blues March Soldier Jon Hendricks " he composed the film score.

Prizes and awards

For his contributions to the culture in Hesse Emil Mangelsdorff was with the Goethe Medal of the State of Hesse excellent ( after (1991 received on 20 January 2006, the Johanna -Kirchner - medal ) and the Goethe Medal of the City of Frankfurt am Main in 1995 had ). Emil Mangelsdorff is also a carrier of the Hessian Jazz Award (1995 ) and the Wilhelm- Leuschner- Medal ( 2001), the highest award the State of Hesse. 2008, the Order of Merit 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany presented on behalf of the Federal President him Silke Lautenschlager. On the Ronneburg he was made a " Knight of Jazz".

Disco printing specifications

  • Swinging Oil Drops! , Bellaphon, 1966
  • This Side Up, bellaphon, 1992
  • Meditation, bellaphon, 1995
  • Blues Forever ( 2007) ( with Vitold Rek, bass Janusz Stefanski, drums, and Thilo Wagner, piano; quarterly list of the German Record Critics' Spring 2008 )

Lexigraphic entries

  • Carlo Bohländer et al (Ed.): Reclams jazz leader. Reclam, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-15-010464-5
  • Ian Carr, Brian Priestley, Digby Fairweather (eds.): Rough Guide to Jazz. The ultimate guide to jazz. Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01584- X
  • Wolf Kampmann (eds): Reclam Jazz Encyclopedia. Reclam, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010528-5
  • Martin Kunzler: Jazz Encyclopedia. Vol 2 Rowohlt, Reinbek 2002 ( 2nd edition ); ISBN 3-499-16317-9
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