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Wulf Muller

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About Me

Born as the fourth child of Wolfgang and Annemarie Müller on October 24th, 1955 in Hünfeld, Germany. He went to school first in Hünfeld and then in Berlin, where the family lived between 1963 and 1969, before moving to Vienna, Austria, where he finished school and went to college before starting to study journalism and politics. While studying he worked at jazz festivals and opened with friends the jazz club ‘miles smiles’. He started working in the music industry in 1983 at Polygram in Vienna, before moving to London in 1992 as International Director for Jazz Marketing. When Universal bought Polygram he was asked to continue in his position and then included Classical music into his portfolio. In early 2000 he was made V.P. International A&R and Marketing, Jazz and Classical, signing artists like Sonny Rollins, Roy Hargrove, John Scofield and others. This position he kept until 2010, when he left Universal to start his own music consultancy All-In-Music Service and works now for Universal International as their Jazz consultant, and as well is working with other smaller labels as A&R freelance and looks after the European tours of Branford Marsalis, James Carter and Jane Monheit. In 2012 signed a contract with Sony Classical International to re-activate the old OKeh jazz label. He was running OKeh Records until 2019 when Sony Masterworks decided to get out of producing jazz recordings once again. Artists which had released new material on the label under his supervision include Dee Dee Bridgewater, Sonny Rollins, John Medeski, David Sanborn, Dhafer Youssef, Dave Holland, Bill Frisell, Kurt Elling, Jeff Ballard and newcomers Somi, Nir Felder, James Brandon Lewis and Theo Croker. He retired from the music business in 2020 and now only helps some artists ocassionaly with advice and is writing a blog, which he started in 2010.

My Jazz Story

I love jazz because...it's my lifestyle I was first exposed to jazz...through my fathers record collection I met ... many great artists through my job The best show I ever attended was...probably Miles Davis mid 80's The first jazz record I bought was...Keith Jarrett 'Belonging' My advice to new listeners...listen and learn, go back in history to understand the present and search for the future.