Helmut Brandt
Musical Artist
1931 – 2001
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Who was Helmut Brandt?
Helmut Brandt was a German jazz baritone saxophonist and bandleader. His style was heavily influenced by Stan Getz and Gil Evans.
Brandt sang in a church choir as a boy, and played violin from age ten before learning saxophone and guitar at a conservatory. He began playing professionally in 1950 and led his own group by 1954. Through the end of the 1950s he worked in a Berlin radio dance band, and played in the orchestras of Lubo D'Orio and Kurt Widmann. His Mainstream Orchestra was popular in Berlin in the 1970s.
Brandt died of a heart attack in 2001.
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- Born
- Jan 7, 1931
Berlin - Nationality
- Germany
- Died
- Jul 26, 2001
Stuttgart
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on July 23, 2013
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