Michael Mantler
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Michael Mantler (born August 10, 1943) is an Austrian trumpeter and composer in new jazz and contemporary music. Mantler was born in Vienna, Austria. He went to the United States in 1962 to study music, and after early activities within the New York avant garde community, including work with Cecil Taylor and the Jazz Composer's Guild, he was a founder of the Jazz Composers' Orchestra Association aka JCOA, a non-profit organisation to commission, perform, and record new compositions for jazz orc
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Michael
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Vienna
- Spouse
- Carla Bley
- Child
- Karen Mantler
- Occupation
- composer
- Educated at
- Berklee College of Music
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- trumpet
- Record label
- ECM Records
- Official website
- www.mantlermusic.com
- Image
- Michael Mantler -1030491.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1943-08-10
- Commons category
- Michael Mantler
- start of work period
- 1964-00-00
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