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The United Jazz+Rock Ensemble

Band, DE
Jazz and Rock

Featuring some of the finest avant-garde jazz players from Germany and beyond the Ensemble began life in 1975. Pianist Wolfgang Dauner, initially recruiting musicians from his home base of Stuttgart (then a hotbed of avant-garde jazz), put together a rotating cast of musicians, and shared writing and arranging duties with guitarist Volker Kriegel. They recorded the first album under the United Jazz+Rock Ensemble name, Live im Schützenhaus, in 1977, to be released on the group's then founded Mood Records label. The album was a hit, eventually becoming the best-selling German jazz record of all times, and the Ensemble was awarded the "Deutscher Schallplattenpreis 1978" for artist of the year, followed by another 14 albums plus a variety of international collaborations.

Members

	Wolfgang Dauner p *1935 DE
	Dave King b *1953 US
	Kenny Wheeler tr, fh 1930-2014 CA
	Eberhard Weber b *1940 DE
	Volker Kriegel g 1943-2003 DE
	Ian Carr tr, fh 1933-2009 GB
	Charlie Mariano as, fl 1923-2009 DE
	Barbara Thompson fl *1944 GB
	Albert Mangelsdorff tb 1928-2005 DE
	Jon Hiseman dr, perc *1944 GB
	Ack Van Rooyen tr, fh *1930
	Johannes Faber tr, fh *1952 DE
	Christof Lauer ts, ss *1953 DE