ArtistInfo

Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky

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Jazz

Autodidact Petrovsky is considered one of the founding fathers of jazz in the GDR. Already since the mid-1950s he played in various formations; later he became a founding member of Manfred Ludwig Sextett, who was important to East German jazz, and performed with Joachim Kühn, Dorothy Ellison and Ruth Hohmann, among others. I n 1971 he founded the jazz rock band SOK with Ulrich Gumpert and in 1973 was one of the founders of the free jazz formation Synopsis. Since 1972 he has worked together with bassist Klaus Koch in various formations.

Instruments

• Alto sax
• Clarinet
• Saxophone
• Flute
• Soprano sax

Genres

• Jazz
• Spoken Word
• Rock

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