Manfred Schoof's European Echoes is popularly characterized as a diamond in the rough, with emphasis on the rough. Boasting a cast filled with near every mainstay of the erupting European free jazz ...

For every artist that has achieved international attention via the exposure of ECM Records, there are countless others who seem to have been lost beneath the cracks. German trumpeter Manfred Schoof, ...

Quarteto Trionfale (Günter Baby Sommer, Barre Phillips, Manfred Schoof, Gianluigi Trovesi) Credit: Courtesy of the artist Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, adventurous jazz musicians in East Germany ...