Klaus Doldinger

Klaus Doldinger ( born May 12, 1936 in Berlin ) is a German musician (saxophone, first clarinet ). He is primarily known as a jazz musician and as a composer of film music. His most famous works are the theme music to the movie Das Boot, the series Tatort and A Case for Two and the soundtrack to The Neverending Story. He is a member of the artistic advisory board of the Union of German jazz musician and board member of the GEMA.

• 2.1 Discography: Klaus Doldinger
• 2.2 Discography: Doldinger's Motherhood
• 2.3 Discography: Passport
• 2.4 filmography

Life

The Early Years

Klaus Doldinger grew up as the son of the graduate engineer Erich Doldinger and his wife Ingeborg, born man, first in Berlin. His grandfather Bruno man was 1919-1933 Mayor of Erfurt. During the war, his father worked as a senior director post in Russia, and the family lived from 1940 to 1945 in Vienna. Then she fled first to Bavaria and then to Dusseldorf.

From 1947 until graduation in 1957 visited Doldinger the Jacobi high school and also in 1947 with a grant from the Robert Schumann Conservatory in Dusseldorf, where he initially studied piano and clarinet from 1952. During this time he gained his first experience in the music industry, which was founded in 1952 by friends band The Feetwarmers, a Dixie group with which he first appeared in 1953 and 1955 and made ​​his first recording. At times, played at the Feetwarmers also the comedian Dieter Süverkrüp ( banjo) and later Minister Manfred Lahnstein (trombone). 1955 Doldinger also founded his own band, Oscar's Trio, whose name he had chosen on the basis of his idol Oscar Peterson. With this group, he won first prize at the Brussels Jazz Festival, the coup Sidney Bechet.

Doldinger Quartet

After graduation, he studied musicology and sound and was sound engineer. After a success with his version of Must I then, must I then the Städtele addition, for a U.S. beverage company, he went in 1960 on his first foreign tour in the USA, played among others with George Lewis and the jazz club Birdland and received at age 24 during his first U.S. tour made ​​an honorary citizen of New Orleans. In 1961 he played modern jazz with U.S. expatriates like Don Ellis, Johnny Griffin, Idrees Sulieman, Kenny Clarke, Donald Byrd and Benny Bailey. In 1962 he founded the Klaus Doldinger Quartet, with whom he in the following year for the Philips label his first album, Doldinger - published in Germany Made Jazz. The LP was also a great success internationally, as there is no white " cool jazz " was played, but components of bebop were used.

Users browsing this quartet were Doldinger (tenor saxophone), Ingfried Hoffmann ( Hammond organ ), Helmut Kandlberger (bass) and Klaus Weiss (drums). As another LP with this lineup in 1963 Doldinger live at Blue Note Berlin Recorded and 1964 was published. [Note 1] In 1964 she took a first major tour abroad on behalf of the Goethe Institute, inter alia, to Morocco, a stay for his interest in African Music aroused. This was followed by appearances at the international festival in Antibes and the Blue Note in Paris.

1965 rose Klaus Weiss and Helmut Kandlberger from. On their bodies were the Dutch drummer Cees lake and the bassist Peter Trunk. Reinforced by the guitarist Attila Zoller, the quartet LP Doldinger on in South America. Doldinger is heard on several plays on the soprano saxophone, and Hoffmann plays only on two of the ten tracks organ. 1966 Doldinger worked with the recordings of film music of the Will- Tremper film Playgirl. Under the direction of Peter Thomas can be heard Lüderitz (drums) on the soundtrack released on a Philips LP also Ingfried Hoffmann ( Hammond organ ), Peter Trunk ( bass) and Rafi. 1967, the LP Doldinger Doldinger Goes On on. The quartet of Doldinger, Hoffmann, Trunk and lake was expanded with three other musicians septet: Helmut Kandlberger additionally played electric bass, Volker Kriegel plucked the guitar, and the Belgian Fats Sadi operated the percussion.

In 1968, the LP Blues Happening; the first page is dedicated to the post-bop. Besides Doldinger, tenor and soprano saxophone playing, Hoffmann had ( piano ), Kandlberger (bass) and lake (drums). The second page is designed as a suite in 5 movements, which borrows both the temperate free jazz as well as rock music. As a guest musician appeared ( in the first sentence ) an unspecified brass group with, and Kurt Bong (drums ), ( in the fifth set ) Joe Quick ( guitar), Lothar Meid (bass ) and Wolfgang Paap (drums ); Hoffman played the Hammond B3.

The double LP Doldinger - The Ambassador 1969 is a half of studio recordings, the other half from a live recording at Munich's domicile. The music is influenced by Spanish and Moorish influences. The piece Sahara, an " amalgam " of African music and temperate Free Jazz from the live disk, which was touched upon already in the piece Blues Happening, leaving time for many Doldinger fans the biggest impression. Doldinger is later covered with Passport on CDs Talkback (1988 ), Passport Live (2000) and Back To Morocco.

Motherhood and Passport

That same year, Doldinger turned to the rock-jazz fusion, respectively, of Music. His first band with this music was called Motherhood. 1969 and 1970 the band played two LPs one: I Feel so Free and Doldinger's Motherhood, both for the label Liberty.

In 1971 he founded the band Passport with Udo Lindenberg on drums, with whom he published it in the first of 28 albums with Atlantic Records ( the first German band to the label ). Even with the album Cross Collateral Passport 1975 also had great success in the U.S., where the group was considered a German answer to Weather Report.

In the following decades Doldinger was very productive both as a composer, but pursued a career with Passport still intense. In 2000 Klaus Doldinger performed with his band again at several festivals ( among others in the context of culture Arena). In 2001, he surprised the jazz scene with the RMX project. In subsequent years, Doldinger played around the world ( Brazil, USA, Asia etc. ) with changing line-up live or wrote music for film and advertising. 2005 completed Klaus Doldinger and Passport an extended tour of Morocco ( " Passport to Morocco " ), it took some local musicians on stage, and thereby resulting fusion of traditional Moroccan folk song elements and Doldingers jazz variations could be heard on the CD published in the following year.

In May 2006 Doldinger celebrated his 70th birthday; on this occasion, a free mini CD Happy Birthday Klaus was launched, which he distributed during his performances to fans and autograph hunters. The CD The Best of Doldinger shows the occasion of his 70th birthday, a retrospective of the year 1963 until 1978. In spring 2006 Doldinger celebrated the 35th stage anniversary of Passport, presenting with Wolfgang Schmid on bass a virtuoso of the early Passport days on the stage. The musicians of the current Passport cast are Peter O'Mara (guitar ), Michael Hornek (keyboards ), Patrick Scales (bass ), Ernst Ströer ( percussion), Biboul Darouiche (percussion ), Christian rood screen (drums).

Film Music

Since 1964 Klaus Doldinger was repeatedly commissions from industry, media and advertising industry, theater, film and television. In 1967 his first music for television - the trailer for the introduction of color TV. With Negresco he delivered in 1968 from his first soundtrack. In 1970 he wrote the theme song for the German - Austrian crime series Tatort and set to music in the following years, a number of scene sequences. His film music for Das Boot (1981 ) made ​​him known worldwide. For the same year, his theme song came to A Case for Two. After that, he composed the music for the fantasy film The Neverending Story and the legal drama Liebling Kreuzberg. He has published more than 50 recordings, written around 2,000 pieces and was 4,200 times on stages in over 50 countries.

Others

Klaus Doldinger married in 1960 Inge Beck and the couple have three children: Viola, Melanie and Nicolas Doldinger. He lives in Icking in Munich since 1968. Doldinger has since 1978 an own studio ( Sound Port Studios ) near Munich.

Doldinger was musically very diverse works, in the 1960s he also published dance and rock music under the pseudonym Paul Nero. In the early 1970s composed Doldinger the advertising music for Pril.

For several years, Klaus Doldinger is patron of the Düsseldorf Jazz Rally, in which it occurs again and again with Passport.

Works (selection)

Discography: Klaus Doldinger

• Doldinger - Jazz Made in Germany (1963 )
• Doldinger in South America ( 1965)
• Doldinger Goes On (1967 )
• Blues Happening ( 1968)
• Doldinger - The Ambassador (1969 )
• The boat ( soundtrack to the feature film The Boat) (1981 )
• Klaus Doldinger - Constellation ( 1983)
• Movie: Doldinger (1993 )
• Doldinger in New York: Street of Dreams (1994 )
• Doldinger Back in New York ( 1999)
• Works & Passion 1955-2000 (2001)
• Early Doldinger - The Complete Philips Sessions (2006)
• Shakin 'the Blues - Klaus Doldinger (1963-1967) ( compilation 2008)

Discography: Doldinger's Motherhood

• I Feel so Free ( 1969)
• Doldinger's Motherhood (1970 )

Discography: Passport

(see article on the band )

Filmography

Awards

Klaus Doldinger received during his career several recording awards and honors: