Passport is a German
jazz ensemble led by saxophonist
Klaus Doldinger. Passport was formed in 1971 as a
jazz fusion
Jazz fusion (also known as fusion and progressive jazz) is a music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and jazz improvisation, improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues. Electric guitars, ...
group, similar to
Weather Report
Weather Report was an American jazz fusion band active from 1970 to 1986. The band was founded in 1970 by Austrian virtuoso keyboardist Joe Zawinul, American saxophonist Wayne Shorter, Czech bassist Miroslav Vitouš, American drummer and vocali ...
. The ensemble's first recording was issued in 1971. The band's membership has had numerous changes over the years. The lineup that brought them to European and international prominence in the mid 1970s consisted of Doldinger, drummer Curt Cress, guitarist/bassist Wolfgang Schmid and keyboardist Kristian Schultze. The group has recorded for
Atlantic and
Warner Bros.
Members
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Brian Auger – keyboards
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Frank Roberts - keyboards
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Philip Catherine – guitar
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Curt Cress
Curtis Cress (born 11 August 1952), known by his stage name Curt Cress, is a German musician, singer and songwriter.
Life and work
Curt Cress began his career in 1965 in Hanau with the band Load. Later also in Hanau he played with the bands I ...
– drums
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Klaus Doldinger – saxophone, flute, keyboards
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Johnny Griffin
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Jim Jackson – drums
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Brian Spring - drums
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Willy Ketzer
Willy or Willie is a masculine, male given name, often a diminutive form of William or Wilhelm, and occasionally a nickname. It may refer to:
People Given name or nickname
* Willie Aames (born 1960), American actor, television director, and scree ...
– drums
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Alexis Korner – guitar, vocals
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Volker Kriegel – guitar
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Olaf Kubler
Olaf or Olav (, , or British ; Old Norse: ''Áleifr'', ''Ólafr'', ''Óleifr'', ''Anleifr'') is a Scandinavian and German given name. It is presumably of Proto-Norse origin, reconstructed as ''*Anu-laibaz'', from ''anu'' "ancestor, grand-father" a ...
– saxophone, flute
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Udo Lindenberg – drums
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Elmer Louis
Elmer is a name of Germanic British origin. The given name originated as a surname, a medieval variant of the given name Aylmer, derived from Old English ''æþel'' (noble) and ''mær'' (famous). It was adopted as a given name in the United State ...
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Roy Louis
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In Anglo-Norman England, the name derived from the Norman ''roy'', meaning "king", while its Old French cognate, ''rey'' or ''roy'' (modern ''roi''), likewise gave rise to ...
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Lothar Meid
Lothar is a Danish, Finnish, German, Norwegian, and Swedish masculine given name, while Lotár is a Hungarian masculine given name. Both names are modern forms of the Germanic Chlothar (which is a blended form of ''Hlūdaz'', meaning "fame", and ...
– bass
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Peter O'Mara
Peter John O'Mara (born 9 December 1957) is an Australian-born jazz guitarist, composer, teacher and author. He has been based in Germany since late 1981.
Biography
O'Mara is a self-taught musician and began his professional career in Sydney i ...
– guitar
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Alphonse Mouzon – drums
* Kevin Mulligan – guitar
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Dieter Petereit
Dieter or dieter may refer to:
* A person committed to dieting
People
Dieter is a German given name (), a short form of Dietrich, from ''theod+ric'' "people ruler", see Theodoric.
Given name
*Dieter Althaus (born 1958), German politician
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(
de) – bass
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Patrick Scales
Patrick Scales (born 24 March 1965) in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany is a German electric bass guitar player and teacher.
Biography
Patrick Scales was born in a small town in the Bavarian Alps. As the town was a recreation area for the Ame ...
– bass
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Hendrik Schaper
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Wolfgang Schmid – bass, guitar
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John Mealing
John Mealing (born 5 April 1942 in Yeovil, Somerset) is a British keyboardist, composer and arranger.
After leaving the Don Rendell-Ian Carr Quintet in the late sixties,Kristian Schultze
Kristian Schultze (21 January 1945 – 22 November 2011) was one-half of the German new-age band Cusco. Schultze partnered with Michael Holm and the two produced numerous new-age albums. The two met in late 1970s, when they discovered th ...
– keyboards
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Vladislav Sendecki
Vladyslav Sendecki, known as Vladislav Sendecki, (born 1955 in Gorlice) is a Polish jazz pianist. In Polish, his name is spelled Władysław Sendecki.
Since 1996 he has been permanently associated with the NDR Big Band as a composer and pianist.
...
– keyboards
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Hermann Weindorf – keyboards, vocals
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Roykey Whydh – guitar
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Pete York – drums
Discography
* ''Passport'' (Atlantic, 1971)
* ''Second Passport'' (Atlantic, 1972)
* ''Looking Thru'' (Atlantic, 1973)
* ''Hand Made'' (Atlantic, 1973)
* ''Doldinger Jubilee Concert'' (Atlantic, 1974)
* ''Doldinger Jubilee '75'' (Atlantic, 1975)
* ''Cross-Collateral'' (Atlantic, 1975) U.S. No. 137
[Charts]
Allmusic
* ''Infinity Machine'' (Atlantic, 1976)
* ''Iguacu'' (Atlantic, 1977) U.S. No. 191, U.S. Jazz No. 23
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* ''Ataraxia'' (titled ''Sky Blue'' in the US) (Atlantic, 1978) U.S. No. 140, U.S. Jazz No. 12][
* ''Garden of Eden'' (Atlantic, 1979) U.S. Jazz No. 17][
* ''Lifelike'' with Klaus Doldinger (Atlantic, 1980)
* ''Oceanliner'' (Atlantic, 1980) U.S. No. 163, U.S. Jazz No. 14][
* ''Blue Tattoo'' (Atlantic, 1981) U.S. No. 175, U.S. Jazz No. 14][
* ''Earthborn'' (Atlantic, 1982) U.S. Jazz No. 40][
* ''Man in the Mirror'' (WEA, 1983)
* ''Running in Real Time'' (WEA, 1985)
* ''Heavy Nights'' (WEA, 1986)
* ''Talk Back'' (WEA, 1988)
* ''Balance of Happiness'' (WEA, 1990)
* ''Blues Roots'' (WEA, 1991)
* ''Down to Earth'' (WEA, 1993)
* ''Passport to Paradise'' (WEA, 1996)
* ''Move'' (WEA, 1998)
* ''Live'' with Klaus Doldinger (WEA, 2000)
* ''Back to Brazil'' (Warner, 2003)
* ''Passport to Morocco'' (Warner, 2006)
* ''On Stage'' (Warner, 2008)
* ''Inner Blue'' (Warner, 2011)
* ''En Route'' (Warner, 2015)
* ''Doldinger'' (Warner, 2016)
* ''Motherhood'' (Warner, 2020)
]
References
External links
Official site
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German jazz ensembles
Jazz fusion ensembles
Musical groups established in 1971
Atlantic Records artists