Name Helmut Brandt | Role Musician | |
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Died July 26, 2001, Stuttgart, Germany Albums Chez Pep, RIAS Big Band Berlin presents Helmut Brandt People also search for Conrad Jackel, Hans-Dieter Taubert, Klaus Gernhuber, Ludwig Ebert, Chris Walden | ||
Helmut Brandt (January 1, 1931, Berlin - July 26, 2001, Stuttgart) was a German jazz baritone saxophonist and bandleader. His style was heavily influenced by Stan Getz and Gil Evans.
Brandt sang in a church choir as a boy, and played violin from age ten before learning saxophone and guitar at a conservatory. He began playing professionally in 1950 and led his own group by 1954. Through the end of the 1950s he worked in a Berlin radio dance band, and played in the orchestras of Lubo D'Orio and Kurt Widmann. His Mainstream Orchestra was popular in Berlin in the 1970s.
Brandt died of a heart attack in 2001.
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