Emil Mangelsdorff
Biography
Emil Mangelsdorff ([ˈɛmɪl ˈmaŋl̩s.dɔʁf]; 11 April 1925 – 20 January 2022) was a German jazz musician who played alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, clarinet and flute. He was a jazz pioneer under the Nazi regime which led to his imprisonment. After World War II and years as a prisoner of war, he was a founding member of the jazz ensemble of Hessischer Rundfunk in 1958. He played with several groups and was active, also as an educator, until old age.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Credited work
184 releases · 45 albums · active 1954–2025
- Performance · 384
- Other credits · 19
Studios: Tonstudio Walldorf · Tonstudio Bauer · Domicile, Munich · Trixi Tonstudios
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Fatty George
- Joki Freund Quintett
- The German All Stars
- Jutta Hipp Quintet
- Albert Mangelsdorff
- Albert Mangelsdorff Jazztet
- Emil Mangelsdorff Quartett