Wolfgang Dauner Quintet

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Wolfgang Dauner, one of the few internationally renowned German jazz musicians, was born in Stuttgart on Dec. 30, 1935. Oddly enough, having learnt to play the piano as a child, he eventually graduated from the conservatory in Stuttgart with a major in “trumpet”. Yet, it is the piano that remains his great love. He fancied contemporary jazz and, in 1963, founded his first own band: The Wolfgang Dauner Trio, with Eberhard Weber playing the bass and Fred Braceful on the drums. He would continue playing with these musicians well into the 1970ies. Dauner is extremely important with regard to modern jazz and jazz rock in Germany, and his efforts can be compared to the spade work Miles Davis did for jazz and jazz rock in the USA. Having participated in various jazz bands in the early 1960ies, Dauner was already a jazz veteran before he founded his own band. His first albums belong to the genre of experimental modern jazz, influenced by Bill Evans, Jon Coltrane,Anton von Webern etc. The albums he published until 1969 will primarily appeal to “pure” jazz fans. The acme of psychedelic music in 1968/69 created new possibilities. Dauner and several other excellent young jazz musicians were sick of the jazz of the time turning increasingly cliché, and decided to disregard all existing rules. They did to jazz what Faust was going to do to rock music a couple of years later. A first result was the extraordinary album FÜR, released in the summer of 1969, which can hardly be called jazz, but

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The Oimels

Psychedelic Jazz (Jazz Club)

Psychedelic Jazz

PSYCHEDELIC JAZZ : THE BEST MINDBLOWING SPACED-OUT JAZZ GROOVES

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Psychedelic Sitar Rock '66 - '69

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Stop My Brain!

Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers Vol.7

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Psychedelic Jazz - Smoking Tunes 16

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Untouchable Outcaste Beats Vol 1

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Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers Volume 7 - Remastered

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MPS Originals - Groove Jazz

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Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers Vol. 7

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