Albert Mangelsdorff

Since the 1950s, Albert Mangelsdorff was considered the preeminent figure in German jazz. He was a musician who gained recognition across styles and genres and was involved in projects that ranged from traditional to avant-garde to rock/pop. He was internationally respected as an artist with a proven independent style, a virtuoso on the trombone, an important composer, and a pioneer of jazz in Germany. For the authors of this volume, Mangelsdorff is the source of inspiration for contributions dealing with Albert Mangelsdorff, the history of jazz in Germany, instrumental technique, free jazz, the Frankfurt scene, vocal expressiveness in jazz, social order in the context of free jazz, the awakening political consciousness of musicians in the 1960s, and the new aesthetic self-confidence of European jazz musicians today.

This volume contains the presentations given at the 11th Darmstadt Jazz Forum in October 2009. It highlights various facets of the trombonist's work, examines parallel developments in music and aesthetics, and also looks at recent developments in German jazz. The common thread running through the volume is ultimately the musical openness exemplified by Albert Mangelsdorff.

Contributions:
Wolfgang Sandner: A prototype and special case: Albert Mangelsdorff, jazz musician in Germany
Rüdiger Ritter: Jazz musicians as "founding fathers" of national jazz scenes? Krzysztof Komeda and Polish jazz
René Grohnert: Images to accompany the music. Jazz posters (by Günther Kieser and Niklaus Troxler) between announcement and memory
Wolfram Knauer: Three angels sang. On jazz musicians' approach to German musical tradition
Martin Pfleiderer: Singin' the Blues. Vocal expressiveness in instrumental jazz
Kai Stefan Lothwesen: Emancipation, jazz dissidents, and paradigm shifts. Notes on the diversity of European jazz
Harald Kisiedu: "European Freedom." On the relationship between music and politics in Peter Brötzmann's work
William Bares: Play Your Own Thing "Our" Thing: "Young German Jazz" and German jazz identity
Silvana K. Figueroa-Dreher: What can sociology learn from free jazz?
Harald Justin: Beyond the scandal. Albert Mangelsdorff: Autobiographical narrative in context (and possible paradigm shifts in German jazz)
Michael Rieth: Goethe and the blues, Kropotkin and the crown, Albert and anarchy
Jürgen Schwab: "50 Years of Institutionalized Subculture." The hr Jazz Ensemble, an Inventory
Michael Rüsenberg: "A Musical Dialogue Between the World-Famous Trombonist and the Unknown Wal." Notes on Albert Mangelsdorff

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