Manfred Schoof


Manfred Schoof is a German jazz trumpeter.

Career

Schoof was born in Magdeburg, Germany. He studied music in Kassel and Cologne, where one of his teachers was the big band leader Kurt Edelhagen. Schoof performed on Edelhagen's radio program and toured with Gunter Hampel. In late 1950s and early-mid 1960s, Schoof played with drummer Jaki Liebezeit, the future co-founder of krautrock band Can.
In the 1960s Schoof started a free jazz band with Alexander von Schlippenbach and Gerd Dudek which became the basis for Manfred Schoof Orchestra. From 1969 to 1971 he was a member of the George Russell Orchestra. He has also worked with Jasper Van't Hof and the Globe Unity Orchestra. He composed classical music for Berlin Philharmonic. His group has participated in performances of Die Soldaten, an operatic work by the contemporary composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann. He was featured in a profile on composer Graham Collier in the 1985 Channel 4 documentary 'Hoarded Dreams'.
Since 2007 he has been chairman of the Union Deutscher Jazzmusiker. He has been a professor in Cologne since 1990.

Discography

As leader

Voices Jazz Meets India – with Dewan Motihar Trio, Irène Schweizer Trio and Barney WilenManfred Schoof Sextet European Echoes Distant Thunder – with Akira Sakata, Yosuke Yamashita and Takeo MoriyamaScales Light Lines The Early Quintet Horns – with Gunter Christmann, Gerd Dudek, Albert Mangelsdorff, Paul Rutherford and Kenny WheelerHorizons Mal Waldron/Manfred Schoof – with Mal WaldronReflections Power Station Meditation Shadows & Smiles – with Rainer BrüninghausTimebreaker
  • ''Crossroad''

As sideman

With European Jazz EnsembleLive At the Philharmonic Cologne Meets the Khan Family 20th Anniversary Tour 30th Anniversary Tour 2006
With Globe Unity OrchestraLive in Wuppertal Der Alte Mann Bricht...Sein Schweigen Bavarian Calypso/Good Bye Pearls Improvisations Hamburg '74 Compositions Globe Unity 2002 Baden-Baden '75
With George GruntzHappening Now! First Prize Renaissance Man
With Gunter HampelHeartplants Transformation Jubilation Legendary: The 27th of May 1997 Live at Berlin Philharmonic Hall
With Irmin SchmidtFilmmusik Vol. 2 Filmmusik Vol. 3 & 4 Rote Erde Musk at Dusk
With Jasper van 't HofPili-Pili Hoomba-Hoomba Jakko
With Alexander von SchlippenbachGlobe Unity The Living Music Globe Unity 67 & 70 Globe Unity 40 Years Blue Hawk Globe Unity 50 Years
With others