Josef "Joe" Viera (born 4 September 1932) is a German jazz saxophonist and educator. Viera worked with the Riverboat Seven, , and

Albert Mangelsdorff Albert Mangelsdorff (September 5, 1928 – July 25, 2005) was a German jazz trombonist. Working mainly in free jazz, he was an innovator in multiphonics. Early life Mangelsdorff was born in Frankfurt on September 5, 1928, as the son of the book ...

early in his career, and led a trio which played free jazz in the late 1960s. He taught at the University of Duisburg-Essen from 1971 to 1998, taking a professorship there in 1981, and has also taught at the

Musikhochschule Hannover A music school is an educational institution specialized in the study, training, and research of music. Such an institution can also be known as a school of music, music academy, music faculty, college of music, music department (of a larger in ...

, University of Munich, and University of Passau. He has also published jazz method books and organized jazz workshops in Germany and elsewhere in Europe. He was the founder and musical director of the

Internationale Jazzwoche Burghausen , or is a jazz festival in Burghausen, Altötting, Germany. It was founded in 1970 by Joe Viera. History The local bailiff Helmut Viertl (1936 - 2023) founded the Birdland jazz club in Burghausen in May 1968, in the former Gasthof Zum in the ol ...

.Wolfram Knauer, "Joe Viera". '' The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz''. 2nd edition, ed.

Barry Kernfeld Barry Dean Kernfeld (born August 11, 1950) is an American musicologist and jazz saxophonist who has researched and published extensively about the history of jazz and the biographies of its musicians. Education In 1968, Kernfeld enrolled at U ...

, 2004.

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