CD review: Klaus Doldinger – The First 50 Years of Passport 2021: Video, CD cover

Retirement is out of the question for Klaus Doldinger, who celebrates his 85th birthday on 12 May 2021. Always devoted to his passion for music, his ears are still pricked up far and wide.

That’s been going on for almost 70 years now. Back then, in the early 1950s, he founded the Dixieland band The Feetwarmers with like-minded jazz enthusiasts in Düsseldorf, followed by the Klaus Doldinger Quartet, with whom he devoted himself to modern jazz.

Today, he says modestly, he wants to continue to improve constantly. But in what actually, one is willing to ask. In filling his saxophone tone with even more soul? In composing? Actually, he has already played, told and said everything and more that a musician can communicate in almost two lifetimes. As if spiritual and physical vitality were nothing, he looks at you a little sceptically and answers in a tone of conviction: “Of course in everything”

CD1

1. Uranus (2021 Remastered) (6:39)
2. Ataraxia Pt. 1 (2021 Remastered) (2:55)
3. Ataraxia Pt. 2 (2021 Remastered) (5:24)
4. Loco-Motive (2021 Remastered) (4:17)
5. Missing You (2021 Remastered) (5:02)
6. Dawn (2021 Remastered) (1:53)
7. Light 1 (2021 Remastered) (1:53)
8. Light 2 (2021 Remastered) (5:08)
9. Bahia do Sol (2021 Remastered) (5:53)
10. Tarantula (2021 Remastered) (4:53)
11. Triolen Groove (5:20)
12. Isar Sunrise (4:29)
13. Seven to Four (2021 Remastered) (7:36)
14. Tatort (2021 Remastered) (3:19)
15. Das Boot (2021 Remastered) (3:44)
16. Die unendliche Geschichte (The Never Ending Story – Suite) (2021 Remastered) (4:31)

CD2

1. Abracadabra (2021 Remastered) (7:25)
2. Ovation (2021 Remastered) (3:57)
3. Man in the Mirror (2021 Remastered) (4:27)
4. Morning Sun (2021 Remastered) (5:51)
5. Ju-Ju Man (2021 Remastered) (8:47)
6. New Moon (2021 Remastered) (4:12)
7. Allegory (2021 Remastered) (3:45)
8. Blue Tatoo (2021 Remastered) (4:08)
9. Moon over Bahia (2021 Remastered) (5:27)
10. Shirokko (2021 Remastered) (6:36)
11. Handmade (2021 Remastered) (5:51)
12. Jadoo (2021 Remastered) (3:11)
13. Hexensabbat (2021 Remastered) (2:41)
14. Sahara Sketches (2021 Remastered) (8:57)