- Gerd Dudek
Gerd Dudek (born Gerhard Rochus Dudek
September 28 ,1938 ) is a GermanModern Creative tenor saxophonist, soprano saxophonist,clarinetist andflautist .Dudek was born in
Germany and now lives inPoland . Dudek studied clarinet privately and attended music school in the 1950s before joining a big band led by his brother Ossi until 1958. During the early 1960s, Dudek played in the Berliner Jazz Quintet, in Karl Blume's group and inKurt Edelhagen 's orchestra until 1965. He then became interested infree music and joinedManfred Schoof 's quintet. Dudek took part in the first sessions of TheGlobe Unity Orchestra in 1966, and played with them at various time into the 1980s. He also worked with many other European free musicians and composers, including Alexander Schlippenbach, Loek Dikker and The Waterland Ensemble And European Jazz Quintet. [Ron Wynn, All Music Guide] He is best known for his work withManfred Schoof ,Wolfgang Dauner , theGlobe Unity Orchestra ,Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra ,Albert Mangelsdorff , Don Cherry andGeorge Russell . [Ian Carr,Digby Fairweather ,Brian Priestley , "Jazz: The Rough Guide", The Rough Guides, 1995, p. 181 (ISBN:1-8582-8137-7)]References
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* [http://fmp-label.de/freemusicproduction/musiker/dudek.html Dudeks FMP releases]
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