Wolfgang Dauner

Wolfgang Dauner (1935-2020) was a German jazz pianist and composer from Stuttgart, where he was born and died. He moved through free jazz, jazz-rock and large-ensemble writing from the 1960s on. He is best known for the jazz-rock group Et Cetera and as a co-founder of the United Jazz + Rock Ensemble, a large band of European jazz players formed in the mid-1970s. Wolfgang Dauner played in Joki Freund's sextet in the 1960s and recorded Dream Talk (CBS, 1964) and Free Action (SABA, 1967). He wrote Requiem for Che Guevara/Psalmus Spei (MPS, 1969) and led the Radio Jazz Group Stuttgart from 1969.