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Emil Mangelsdorff
Emil Mangelsdorff
German musician
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Ralf-Rainer Hübner
Ralf-Rainer Hübner
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Vitold Rek
Vitold Rek
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Heinz Sauer
Heinz Sauer
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Kurt Edelhagen
Kurt Edelhagen
German musician
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Albert Mangelsdorff
Albert Mangelsdorff
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Michael Mantler
Michael Mantler
Austrian musician
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Joe Gallivan
Joe Gallivan
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Charles Davis
Charles Davis
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Maria Baptist
Maria Baptist
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Leszek Żądło
Leszek Żądło
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Bernd Ruf
Bernd Ruf
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Dave Douglas
Dave Douglas
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Bob Degen
Bob Degen
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Mike Holober
Mike Holober
American musician
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Mark-Anthony Turnage
Mark-Anthony Turnage
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Christoph Siebert
Christoph Siebert
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Wolfgang Dauner
Wolfgang Dauner
German musician
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Julian Argüelles
Julian Argüelles
British musician
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Rolf Riehm
Rolf Riehm
German composer and oboist
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Stafford James
Stafford James
American musician
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Joelle Khoury
Joelle Khoury
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Marc Secara
Marc Secara
German singer and musician
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Jack Cooper
Jack Cooper
American composer, arranger, orchestrator, multireedist, and music educator.
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Norris Turney
Norris Turney
American musician
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Rainer Brüninghaus
Rainer Brüninghaus
German musician
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Vince Giordano
Vince Giordano
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Bill Ramsey
Bill Ramsey
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Alois Ickstadt
Alois Ickstadt
German composer, pianist and music educator
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Ted Nash
Ted Nash
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Erich Kleinschuster
Erich Kleinschuster
Austrian trombonist
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Joshua Redman
Joshua Redman
American jazz saxophonist and composer
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Benyamin Nuss
Benyamin Nuss
German musician
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Tia Fuller
Tia Fuller
American musician
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Benny De Weille
Benny De Weille
German musician
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Frank Foster
Frank Foster
American jazz musician and bandleader
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Willy Berking
Willy Berking
German composer and conductor
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Dave Liebman
Dave Liebman
American jazz composer, saxophonist and flautist
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Pepper Adams
Pepper Adams
American saxophonist
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Susanne Alt
Susanne Alt
Dutch musician
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Herb Geller
Herb Geller
American saxophonist (1928-2013)
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Paul Kuhn
Paul Kuhn
jazz musician, band leader, singer and pianist (1928-2013)
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Tommy Smith
Tommy Smith
Scottish saxophone player
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Joe Castro
Joe Castro
American musician
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Joe Zawinul
Joe Zawinul
Austrian composer and pianist
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Evan Parker
Evan Parker
English saxophonist
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Joe Lovano
Joe Lovano
American jazz flautist, saxophonist, clarinettist
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Jan Garber
Jan Garber
American musician
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Jim McNeely
Jim McNeely
American musician
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Eberhard Weber
Eberhard Weber
German musician
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Otto Hardwick
Otto Hardwick
American musician
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Lutz Templin
Lutz Templin
German jazz bandleader
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Herb Pomeroy
Herb Pomeroy
American trumpeter
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Kamil Běhounek
Kamil Běhounek
Czech accordionist and composer
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Dick Oatts
Dick Oatts
American jazz saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and educator
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Klaus Mertens
Klaus Mertens
German singer
Joki Freund
German saxophonist

Joki Freund

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German saxophonist
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Walter Jakob "Joki" Freund (September 5, 1926, Höchst, Frankfurt am Main – February 15, 2012, Schwalbach am Taunus) was a German jazz saxophonist.

Freund began playing the accordion as a child, switching to tenor saxophone after World War II ended. Early in the postwar era, he played with Joe Quitter, Carlo Bohlander, Gerry Weinkopf, Joe Klimm, and Jutta Hipp, then formed his own ensemble. He began performing with American musicians, including Donald Byrd, Art Taylor, and Doug Watkins, during their European festival appearances. He played with, and arranged for, Albert Mangelsdorff in the jazz orchestra of Hessischer Rundfunk and Erwin Lehn in the Süddeutscher Rundfunk orchestra. He played with the Frankfurt Jazz Ensemble on soprano saxophone in the 1970s, also performing as a leader around this time.