Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky

Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky
Petrowsky at Berlin Jazzclub Aufsturz in 2006
Born(1933-12-10)10 December 1933
Güstrow, German Reich
Died10 July 2023(2023-07-10) (aged 89)
Berlin, Germany
Other namesLuten Petrowsky
Occupations
Organizations
  • Synopsis
  • Zentralquartett
Spouse
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(m. 1982)​
Awards

Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky (10 December 1933 – 10 July 2023), often called Luten Petrowsky, was a German jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, flautist, composer and author. He is considered the father of free jazz in East Germany (GDR).[1] He was one of few jazz musicians permitted to play in the West already in the 1960s.[2] Petrowsky played in the 1973 quartet recording Just for fun, the first of jazz musicians from both East and West. He took part in more than a hundred recordings between 1963 and 2016, with groups such as Synopsis and Zentralquartett, and with his singer wife, Uschi Brüning.

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