Wolfgang Haffner was born in Wunsiedel/Germany. He started playing drums and piano at the age of six. He began his career as a professional musician in the German French Jazz Ensemble, conducted by german Jazz legend Albert Mangelsdorff. The Band played Festivals including the Paris Jazzfestival and the Jazzfest Berlin. Haffner later became the drummer in Klaus Doldingers „Passport“, with whom he played for 11 years, touring Europe and Southafrica. From 1994 to 1995 he was the drummer in the Band of one of the greatest female singers of all times, Chaka Khan. 1994 he joined the US Fusion Band METRO with Chuck Loeb, Mitch Forman and Anthony Jackson. Haffner worked with many great Jazz Artists including Pat Metheny, Michael & Randy Brecker, Larry Carlton, Bill Evans, Earl Klugh,Woody Shaw, Roy Hargrove, Johnny Griffin, Cassandra Wilson, Joe Pass, Bob James, Joe Lovano, Clark Terry, Pat Martino, Eddie Daniels, Mc Coy Tyner, Art Farmer, Pee Wee Ellis, Esbjorn Svensson, Joe Sample, Fred Wesley, Roy Ayers, Hiram Bullock, Will Lee, Robben Ford... ), also with artists and Bands like Jan Garbarek, Michael Franks, Die Fantastischen Vier, No Angels, Stefan Raab, Helge Schneider, Xavier Naidoo, Sasha, Wolfgang Niedecken, Konstantin Wecker, DePhazz, Lalo Schifrin, NDR Big Band Hamburg and the WDR Big Band Cologne. Haffner has played Festivals around the world, such as Montreux, Paris, Tokyo, Moscow, Chicago, North Sea Jazzfestival, Los Angeles, Berlin, Vienna, San Diego, Geneva, Amsterdam, Nice, Stockholm, Madrid, Oslo, Zurich, London, New York, Bejing, Hong Kong. He toured more than 60 countries (Argentinia, Brasil, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Chile, Uruquay, Mexico, Peru, Bolivia Columbia, Portugal Southafrica, USA, India, Egypt,Lebanon, Syria, Italy, Jordan, Poland, Hungary, Thailand, England, Spain, Japan,Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Latvia, Pakistan, Russia, Korea, China...). In 2002 Haffner formed the Wolfgang Haffner Band. When not performing with his own Band he plays with the Nils Landgren Funk Unit of Sweden and with german trumpet player Till Broenner. Haffner has played on about 400 Recordings, including 12 albums under his own name. In 2004 he produced the album “Forward Motion†of the iclandic Band, “Mezzoforte“. In May 2006 Wolfgang Haffner..s record “Shapes†was released, also his DVD "shapes live in concert. The brandnew Trio CD Wolfgang Haffner "Acoustic Shapes" (with Lars Danielsson on bass and Hubert Nuss on piano) is in stores now!
SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY:
WOLFGANG HAFFNER Shapes live in concert (DVD)
WOLFGANG HAFFNER Acoustic Shapes
WOLFGANG HAFFNER Shapes
WOLFGANG HAFFNER Zooming
WOLFGANG HAFFNER Live&Real
WOLFGANG HAFFNER Urban Life
WOLFGANG HAFFNER Music
WOLFGANG HAFFNER Movin on
WOLFGANG HAFFNER Whatever it is
WOLFGANG HAFFNER I should have known
WOLFGANG HAFFNER Back home
WOLFGANG HAFFNER Last exit
WOLFGANG HAFFNER Live
MICHAEL FRANKS Rondevous in Rio
MICHAEL FRANKS Barefoot on the beach
CHUCK LOEB The music inside
CHUCK LOEB The moon, the stars…
CHUCK LOEB Listen
CHUCK LOEB In a Heartbeat
CHUCK LOEB Presence
EDDIE DANIELS Beautiful love
EDDIE DANIELS Swing low
GATO BARBIERI Che Corazón
NELSON RANGELL Destiny
NELSON RANGELL Turning night into day
PAQUITO D..RIVERA The Clarinetist
PASSPORT Balance of happiness
PASSPORT Passport to paradise
PASSPORT Move
PASSPORT Live
METRO Express
METRO Live (in Berlin)
METRO Metro
METRO Tree People
METRO Metrocafe
METRO Grapevine
MITCH FORMAN Perspectives
TILL BRÖNNER Love
TILL BRÖNNER Chattin with Chet
TILL BRÖNNER That Summer
TILL BRÖNNER The Christmas album
MEZZOFORTE Forward Motion
MANGELSDORFF/DAUNER Hut ab!
HILDEGARD KNEF 17 Millimeter
HILDEGARD KNEF Aber schön war es doch
CARMEN CUESTA One Kiss
CARMEN CUESTA Peace of mind
CARMEN CUESTA Dreams
JOE PASS Joe Pass in Hamburg
LALO SCHIFRIN Jazz goes to Hollywood
LALO SCHIFRIN Mannix
KONTANTIN WECKER Stilles Glück
KONTANTIN WECKER Concert ..90
KONTANTIN WECKER Classics
KONTANTIN WECKER Uferlos
KONTANTIN WECKER Uferlos live
KONTANTIN WECKER Schtonk (Soundtrack)
KONTANTIN WECKER Am Flußufer
PE WERNER Herzkönigin
PE WERNER Beinfreiheit
NDR BIG BAND Ellingtonia
NDR BIG BAND Bravissimo
NDR BIG BAND The Theatre of Kurt Weil
SWR BIG BAND/B.MINTZER Live
SWR BIG BAND/M.SCHNEIDER Live
MANFRED KRUG Schlafstörung
MANFRED KRUG Tatort - Die Songs
PETER HERBOLZHEIMER 25 Jahre
CHARLIE MARIANO Portrait of France
OLD FRIENDS German Jazz Masters
FESSLER Signatures
NILS LANDGREN Sentimental Journey
NILS LANDGREN Funky Abba
NILS LANDGREN License to Funk
RIGMOR GUSTAFSSON I will wait for you
VICTORIA TOLSTOY Shining on you
VICTORIA TOLSTOY My Swedish heart
NO ANGELS When the Angels Swing
ROLF KÃœHN Internal Eyes
ROLF KÃœHN Inside out
ROLF KÃœHN Affairs
ALBERT MANGELSDORFF Music for Jazz Orchestra
TOM GÄBEL Introducing: myself
MSM SCHMIDT Arrival
MSM SCHMIDT Transit
C.PROMMER..S DRUM LESSON Vol.1
STUDNITZKY Trio
ENDERS ROOM Human Radio
PETER WENIGER Legal Paradizer
QUIQUE SINESI Color Cielo
MAX MUTZKE Aus dem Bauch
RUSS MILLER Arival
DI GIOIA-ILG-HAFFNER Abracadabra
WOLFGANG NIEDECKEN Niedecken Koeln
WOLFGANG HAFFNER PLAYS EXCLUSIVELY:
YAMAHA DRUMS (www.yamahadrums.com)
MEINL CYMBALS (www.meinlcymbals.com)
REMO DRUM HEADS (www.remo.com)
VIC FIRTH STICKS (www.vicfirth.com)
MEINL PERCUSSION (www.meinlpercussion.com)
BEYERDYNAMIC MICROPHONES (www.beyerdynamic.de)
BOOKING AGENCY:
Karsten Jahnke Konzertdirektion GmbH
Oberstrasse 14 B
D – 20144 Hamburg / Germany
Phone: + 49 (0) 40 414788-0
Mail:
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