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Sportfreunde Stiller (English: Sportfriends Stiller) is a German rock band from Germering near Munich, Bavaria, consisting of Florian "Flo" Weber (drums), Rüdiger "Rüde" Linhof (bass) and Peter S. Brugger (guitar).
When they were officially founded in 1996, Andi Erhardt played the bass, but left the band one year later and Rüdiger Linhof became the new bassist.
Sportfreunde Stiller started on the underground rock scene, with their songs only appearing on indie stations at first and their albums Macht doch, was ihr wolt - ich geh jetzt!(1996) and Thonträger(1998). Their first big single "Wellenreiten '54" (Surfing '54) was released in 1999....
Fünf Freude is the name of more than one artist.
1) a German punk rock band from Munich. They sing in German and English.
2) a trance group consisting of Andreas Braun, Andreas Gordon Behle, Klommfaß, Markus Boehme and Martin Hensing.
3) an incorrect artist tag for Die Fünf Freunde.
It may also be an incorrect artist tags for audiobooks by Enid Blyton. .
Tremendous early work from German saxophonist Joki Freund -- a player who would go onto much greater fame in the progressive years at the end of the 60s, but who already sounds plenty darn great on this early combo side from 1963! The style of the work is incredibly hip -- with a definite John Coltrane modal groove in place, but also a sense of globally conscious jazz that's very much in the spirit of classic Saba/MPS work, but which predates most of that by a number of years! Freund plays tenor and soprano sax here -- in a sextet...
