Joki Freund

Joki Freund (1926-2012), born Walter Jakob Freund, was a German jazz saxophonist and arranger from Frankfurt am Main. He started on accordion as a child and took up the tenor saxophone after the Second World War, later adding soprano. He worked mainly in quintets within the Frankfurt jazz scene and recorded the sextet album Yogi Jazz in 1963. Joki Freund played in the postwar years with Joe Quitter, Carlo Bohländer, Joe Klimm and Jutta Hipp before leading his own groups, and played with Donald Byrd, Art Taylor and Doug Watkins during their European festival appearances.