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Albert Mangelsdorff

German musician
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September 5, 1928, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Died:
July 25, 2005, Frankfurt am Main (aged 76)
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Albert Mangelsdorff (born September 5, 1928, Frankfurt am Main, Germany—died July 25, 2005, Frankfurt am Main) was a German trombonist, who began playing bop and in time became an outstanding modal, free jazz, and jazz-rock improviser. He was among the first post-World War II European jazz musicians to create original music. With his brother Emil (later known as an alto saxophonist), Albert attended secret meetings of the Hot Club of Frankfurt during the period when jazz was banned by the Nazis. He played trombone in a Frankfurt radio band that he led and with German bop groups in the 1950s. ...(100 of 224 words)

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