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Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky

German reed player and flutist, born December 10, 1933 in Güstrow, Germany; died July 10, 2023 in Berlin. Nickname: Luten Autodidact Petrowsky is considered one of the founding fathers of jazz in the German Democratic Republic. Already in the mid-1950s he played in various formations; later he became a founding member of the [a=Manfred Ludwig Sextett], who was important to East German jazz, and performed with [a=Joachim Kühn], [a=Dorothy Ellison] and [a=Ruth Hohmann], among others. In 1971 he founded the jazz rock band SOK with [a=Ulrich Gumpert] and in 1973 was one of the founders of the free jazz formation [a=Synopsis (2)]. Since 1972 he has worked together with bassist [a=Klaus Koch] in various formations. Married to the vocalist [a=Uschi Brüning].