Stanley Ernest Sulzmann is an English jazz

Jazz

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 saxophonist.

Sulzmann began on saxophone at age 13 and played in Bill Ashton

Bill Ashton (jazz musician)

William Michael Allingham Ashton OBE is a British saxophonist and composer, best known for co-founding the London Schools’ Orchestra, now the National Youth Jazz Orchestra , of which he is Musical Director....

's London Youth Jazz Orchestra, later the National Youth Jazz Orchestra

National Youth Jazz Orchestra

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. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music

Royal Academy of Music

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 from 1969-1972. In the 1970s he played with the Clarke-Boland Big Band (1971), Mike Gibbs (1971), John Taylor

John Taylor (jazz)

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 and Kenny Wheeler

Kenny Wheeler

Kenneth Vincent John Wheeler, OC is a Canadian composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player, based in the U.K. since the 1950s....

, Volker Kriegel

Volker Kriegel

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, Eberhard Weber

Eberhard Weber

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, Zbigniew Seifert

Zbigniew Seifert

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 (1973), Phil Woods

Phil Woods

Philip Wells Woods is an American jazz bebop alto saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader and composer.-Biography:...

 (1978), Clark Terry

Clark Terry

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 (1978), and Gordon Beck

Gordon Beck

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. In the 1980s he worked with Gil Evans

Gil Evans

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, (1983), the European Jazz Ensemble

European Jazz Ensemble

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 (1983), the Hilversum Radio Orchestra, the Hamburg

Hamburg

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-based NDR Big Band, and the London Jazz Orchestra. Collaborations in the 1990s include with Allan Botschinsky

Allan Botschinsky

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, David Murray

David Murray (jazz musician)

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 (1997), Paul Clarvis

Paul Clarvis

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 (1998), and Bruno Castellucci (1998). Television audiences around the world have heard him as the saxophone soloist in The Belgian Detective, the theme music to ITV's "Poirot

Agatha Christie's Poirot

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", composed by Christopher Gunning.

Sulzmann has held teaching positions at the Guildhall School of Music, the Royal Academy of Music

Royal Academy of Music

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, and Trinity College of Music

Trinity College of Music

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He is married with 3 sons: Gregory Sulzmann, Matthew Sulzmann and Ian Sulzmann

Discography as leader

• Feudal Rabbits (1990)
• Treasure Trove (1996)
• Birthdays Birthdays (2000)
• The Jigsaw (2004)