Peter Brötzmann

Peter Brötzmann (6 March 1941 – 22 June 2023) was an avant-garde jazz saxophonist and clarinetist, born in Remscheid, Germany.

During his youth, he originally was a painter and studied painting, but always was drawn towards music, specifically jazz. Peter decided to teach himself how to play the clarinet when a fellow student left high school and abandoned their clarinet, and took it for his own.

Over his career, he released over fifty albums, his most well-known albums being, For Adolphe Sax and Machine Gun. He had appeared on countless other projects, some artists that he had worked with include, Keiji Haino, Paal Nilssen-Love, and Ginger Baker.

Despite disliking the term, Peter is considered to be a large influence and key component of European free jazz.