Stan Sulzmann


Stanley Ernest Sulzmann is an English jazz saxophonist.

Biography

He was born in London, England.
Sulzmann began playing the saxophone aged 13 and played in 1964 Bill Ashton's London Youth Jazz Orchestra, later the National Youth Jazz Orchestra. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music from 1969 to 1972. In the 1970s, he played with the Clarke-Boland Big Band, Mike Gibbs, John Taylor and Kenny Wheeler, Volker Kriegel, Eberhard Weber, Zbigniew Seifert, Phil Woods, Clark Terry, and Gordon Beck. In the 1980s, he worked with Gil Evans, Paul McCartney, the European Jazz Ensemble, the James Last Orchestra, the Hilversum Radio Orchestra, the Hamburg-based NDR Big Band, and the London Jazz Orchestra. Collaborations in the 1990s include with Allan Botschinsky, David Murray, Paul Clarvis, and Bruno Castellucci. Television audiences around the world have heard him as the saxophone soloist in "The Belgian Detective", the theme music to ITV's Poirot, composed by Christopher Gunning.
Sulzmann has held teaching positions at the Guildhall School of Music, the Royal Academy of Music, and Trinity College of Music.

Discography

As leader

On Loan with Gratitude Krark with Tony Hymas, Illusions with Winds of Change Everybody's Song but My Own with John Taylor Aspects of Paragonne with Aspects of Paragonne Feudal Rabbits Never at All with Marc Copland Creative Sound Pictures Treasure Trove with Nikki Iles Bubbling Under with Sonia Slany, Tony Hymas Birthdays, Birthdays Ordesa with John Parricelli, Kenny Wheeler Jigsaw Catch Me with Neon Quartet Subjekt with Neon Quartet Star Dust with Nikki Iles Double Exposure with John Taylor

As sideman

With Gordon BeckSeven Steps to Evans Celebration A Tribute to Bill Evans Once Is Never Enough November Song
With Chet BakerLegacy
With European Jazz EnsembleAt the Philharmonic Cologne Meets the Khan Family 20th Anniversary Tour 25th Anniversary 30th Anniversary Tour 2006 35th Anniversary Tour 2011
With James LastHansimania Plus Berlin Concert
With Michael GibbsTanglewood 63 Just Ahead Directs the Only Chrome-Waterfall Orchestra
With Tony HymasInsight Flying Fortress Oyate
With Kenny WheelerFlutter By, Butterfly Music for Large and Small Ensembles Kayak Dream Sequence Dream Sequence The Long Waiting Six for Six Songs for Quintet
With others