Emil Mangelsdorff Quartett live at Jazzfest Berlin 2010

Emil Mangelsdorff alto sax
Thilo Wagner piano
Vitold Rek bass
Janusz Stefanski drums

recorded live at Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Side Stage, November 3, 2010

1. A Night in Tunesia (Dizzy Gillepsie)
2. I Remember Clifford (Benny Golson)
3. Confirmation (Charlie Parker)
4. All the things you are (Jerome Kern)
5. Nica's dream (Horace Silver)
6. Blues for Ever (Emil Mangelsdorff)

Few musicians’ lives embody the continuity of German jazz as emphatically as that of Emil Mangelsdorff. The Frankfurt-born musician is an authority in many respects. Originally trained as an accordion player, he studied clarinet in the early 40s and clandestinely performed with the Frankfurt-based Hotclub Combo. His dedication for the music he loved was enough for two, though – he also introduced his younger brother Albert to jazz.
After the war, Mangelsdorff rapidly advanced to become the driving force of Frankfurt’s jazz scene. Originating from swing, and never being among the iconoclasts of German jazz he yet always had an open ear for innovations such as free jazz and jazz-rock.
Constantly refining his tremendously light, relaxed tone has always been of the greatest importance to him. For Emil Mangelsdorff, jazz was and still remains to be an expression of joviality and vitality from the perspective of an artist who has seen life in all of its shades. The quartet released a fine CD calles "Blues forever" in 2007.