Helmut Brandt (musician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German musician
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Place of Birth: Berlin
About Helmut Brandt (musician)
- Helmut Brandt (January 1, 1931, in Berlin – July 26, 2001, in Stuttgart) 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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