Manfred Schoof

Manfred Schoof (born 6 April 1936)^[1] is a German jazz trumpeter.

Manfred Schoof
Manfred Schoof in 1984
Background information
Born	(1936-04-06) 6 April 1936 (age 89) Magdeburg, Germany
Genres	Jazz, free jazz, classical
Occupation	Musician
Instrument	Trumpet
Years active	1960s–present
Labels	FMP, Wergo

Career

Schoof was born in Magdeburg, Germany.^[1] He studied music in Kassel and Cologne, where one of his teachers was the big band leader Kurt Edelhagen.^[2] Schoof performed on Edelhagen's radio program and toured with Gunter Hampel.^[2] In late 50s and early-mid 60, Schoof played with drummer Jaki Liebezeit, the future co-founder of krautrock band Can.^[3]

In the 1960s Schoof started a free jazz band with Alexander von Schlippenbach and Gerd Dudek which became the basis for Manfred Schoof Orchestra.^[2] From 1969 to 1971 he was a member of the George Russell Orchestra.^[2] He has also worked with Jasper Van't Hof and the Globe Unity Orchestra.^[2] He composed classical music for Berlin Philharmonic.^[2] His group has participated in performances of Die Soldaten, an operatic work by the contemporary composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann.^[4] He was featured in a profile on composer Graham Collier in the 1985 Channel 4 documentary 'Hoarded Dreams'.^[5]

Since 2007 he has been chairman of the Union Deutscher Jazzmusiker. He has been a professor in Cologne since 1990.^[6]

Discography

As leader

• Voices (CBS, 1966)
• Jazz Meets India (SABA, 1967) – with Dewan Motihar Trio, Irène Schweizer Trio and Barney Wilen
• Manfred Schoof Sextet (Wergo, 1967)
• European Echoes (FMP, 1969)
• Distant Thunder (Enja, 1975) – with Akira Sakata, Yosuke Yamashita and Takeo Moriyama
• Scales (ECM, 1976)
• Light Lines (Japo, 1978)
• The Early Quintet (FMP, 1978)
• Horns (FMP, 1979) – with Gunter Christmann, Gerd Dudek, Albert Mangelsdorff, Paul Rutherford and Kenny Wheeler
• Horizons (Japo, 1980)
• Mal Waldron/Manfred Schoof (Amiga, 1980) – with Mal Waldron
• Reflections (Mood, 1984)
• Power Station (UBM, 1984)
• Meditation (UBM, 1987)
• Shadows & Smiles (Wergo, 1989) – with Rainer Brüninghaus
• Timebreaker (UBM, 1990)
• Crossroad (UBM, 1992)

As sideman

With European Jazz Ensemble

• Live (Konnex, 1988)
• At the Philharmonic Cologne (MA Music, 1989)
• Meets the Khan Family (MA Music, 1992)
• 20th Anniversary Tour (Konnex, 1997)
• 30th Anniversary Tour 2006 (Konnex, 2009)

With Globe Unity Orchestra

• Live in Wuppertal (FMP, 1973)
• Der Alte Mann Bricht...Sein Schweigen (FMP, 1974)
• Bavarian Calypso/Good Bye (FMP, 1975)
• Pearls (FMP, 1977)
• Improvisations (Japo, 1978)
• Hamburg '74 (FMP, 1979)
• Compositions (Japo, 1980)
• Globe Unity 2002 (Intakt, 2003)
• Baden-Baden '75 (FMP, 2011)

With George Gruntz

• Happening Now! (Hat ART, 1988)
• First Prize (Enja, 1989)
• Renaissance Man (TCB, 2002)

With Gunter Hampel

• Heartplants (SABA, 1965)
• Transformation (Birth, 1976)
• Jubilation (Birth, 1983)
• Legendary: The 27th of May 1997 (Birth, 1998)
• Live at Berlin Philharmonic Hall (Birth, 2014)

With Irmin Schmidt

• Filmmusik Vol. 2 (Spoon, 1981)
• Filmmusik Vol. 3 & 4 (Spoon, 1983)
• Rote Erde (Teldec, 1983)
• Musk at Dusk (WEA, 1987)

With Jasper van 't Hof

• Pili-Pili (Keytone, 1984)
• Hoomba-Hoomba (Virgin, 1985)
• Jakko (Jaro, 1987)

With Alexander von Schlippenbach

• Globe Unity (SABA, 1967)
• The Living Music (Quasar, 1969)
• Globe Unity 67 & 70 (Atavistic, 2001)
• Globe Unity 40 Years (Intakt, 2007)
• Blue Hawk (Jazzwerkstatt, 2011)
• Globe Unity 50 Years (Intakt, 2018)

With others

• Peter Brotzmann, In a State of Undress (FMP, 1989)
• Don Cherry, Actions (Philips, 1971)
• Graham Collier, Hoarded Dreams (Cuneiform, 2007)
• Wolfgang Dauner, 80 Jahre Das Jubilaumskonzert (Timba, 2017)
• Miles Davis & Quincy Jones, Live at Montreux (Warner 1991)
• Gabi Delgado-López, Mistress (Virgin, 1982)
• Dissidenten, Instinctive Traveler (Exil, 1997)
• Stan Getz, Francy Boland, Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band, Change of Scenes (Verve, 1971)
• Albert Mangelsdorff, Albert Mangelsdorff (Fabbri Editori, 1981)
• George Russell, Electronic Sonata for Souls Loved by Nature (Flying Dutchman, 1971)
• Gunter Sommer, Le Piccole Cose Live at Theater Gutersloh (Intuition, 2017)
• Gunter Baby Sommer, Peitzer Grand Mit Vieren (Jazzwerkstatt, 2009)
• Heiner Stadler, Retrospection (Tomato, 1989)
• Fredy Studer, Christy Doran, Half a Lifetime (Unit, 1994)
• Mal Waldron, Hard Talk (Enja, 1974)
• Mal Waldron, One-Upmanship (Enja, 1977)
• Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Requiem fur Einen Jungen Dichter (Wergo, 1989)
• Tony Oxley Quintet, Angular Apron (Corbett vs. Dempsey, 2024)