Artist: Klaus Doldinger
Genre(s):
Electronic: Progressive
Discography:
Constellation
Year: 1983
Tracks: 9
Klaus Doldinger, best-known for leading the first-class optical fusion group Passport in the seventies and '80s, has had a diverse and occasional calling. He started stunned studying pianissimo in 1947 and clarinet quint days later, playing in Dixieland bands in the fifties. By 1961, he had become a modern tenor saxist, running with such peak visiting and expatriate Americans as Don Ellis, Johnny Griffin, Benny Bailey, Idrees Sulieman, Donald Byrd, and Kenny Clarke, recording as a leader for Philips, World Pacific, and Liberty. However, in 1970, he initiated a long series of fusion-oriented roger Sessions for Atlantic that featured his tenor, soprano, fluting, and periodic keyboards with an galvanizing calendar method of birth control section. In plus to writing music for films (including Coney Boot) and goggle box in Europe, Doldinger has remained active as a player wHO occasionally explores his roots in hard boP into the late '90s, but because he has always lived in Europe, he remains underrated in the U.S.
