Jazz trumpeter and flugel player Herbert Joos died on Saturday in a Baden-Baden hospital. He was 79. The Karlsruhe-born player who early in his career studied double bass was a multi-instrumentalist across the brass spectrum his choice of instruments sometimes including cornet and the specialist alp horn.

In the 1960s he played with the Karlsruhe Modern Jazz Quintet and became best known for his work later inside the mighty avant garde Vienna Art Orchestra, one of the world's best ever big bands in its day.

Joos album The Philosophy of the Flugelhorn recorded in 1973 at the famous Bauer tonstudio in Ludwigsburg on which were overdubbed among other instruments fluegelhorn, bass, bass recorder, bamboo flute, mellophone, trumpet, alto horn, vibes and even field recorded birds, was the first of two albums he made for the ECM associated label JAPO, with Daybreak following.

Read a (German language) tribute in the Stuttgarter Zeitung.