Manfred Schoof

Manfred Schoof is a German jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and composer, born in Magdeburg in 1936. He studied in Kassel and in Cologne, where Bernd Alois Zimmermann was his composition teacher. His quintet, formed in 1965, helped shape early European free jazz, and he was a founding member of the Globe Unity Orchestra in 1966. The quintet, with Gerd Dudek, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Buschi Niebergall and Jaki Liebezeit, recorded Voices. In 1969 Schoof wrote European Echoes for the Manfred Schoof Orchestra, released by FMP.