{{Short description|Jazz drummer}} '''Fred Arthur Braceful''' (May 2, 1938 – March 17, 1995) was a jazz drummer.
==Early life== Braceful was born in Detroit on May 2, 1938.<ref name="Grove">{{Cite encyclopedia |last=Kennedy |first=Gary W. |date=2003 |entry=Braceful, Fred (Arthur) |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.J524100 }}</ref> He played in his tenor saxophonist father's band early in his career.<ref name="Grove" /> He served in the U.S. military in Germany, and then settled in Stuttgart.<ref name="Grove" />
==Later life and career== In Stuttgart he played with Wolfgang Dauner's trio from 1963, and in Dauner's group Et Cetera until the mid-1970s.<ref name="Grove" /> Braceful also played with Albert Mangelsdorff, Abdullah Ibrahim, Joki Freund, Hans Koller, Bob Degen, Benny Bailey, Robin Kenyatta, and Manfred Schoof.<ref name="Grove" />
He and several Stuttgart jazz musicians formed the ensemble Moira in 1976.<ref name="Grove" /> Following this Braceful played with {{ill|Bernd Köppen|de}} and Jay Oliver.<ref name="Grove" /> After his stint with Oliver in 1982, Braceful quit music for a period of time, then returned to play in Eugen de Ryck's group the Funkomatic Hippies from 1992 until 1995.<ref name="Grove" /> He worked and recorded with saxophonist Michael Hornstein in the same period.<ref name="Grove" /> Braceful died in Munich on March 17, 1995.<ref name="Grove" />
==Discography== '''With Wolfgang Dauner''' * ''Dream Talk'' (CBS, 1964) * ''Free Action'' (MPS, 1967) * ''Requiem for Che Guevara'' with Fred van Hove (MPS, 1968) * ''The Oimels'' (MPS, 1969) * ''Wolfgang Dauner/Eberhard Weber/Jürgen Karg/Fred Braceful'' (Calig, 1969) * ''Output'' (ECM, 1970) * ''Rischkas Soul'' (MPS, 1970) * ''Musica Sacra Nova II'' with Reinhold Finkbeiner (Schwann, 1970) * ''Et Cetera'' (Global, 1971) * ''Knirsch'' (MPS, 1972) * ''Et Cetera Live'' (MPS, 1973)
'''With Mal Waldron''' * ''Spanish Bitch'' (JVC/ECM, 1971) * ''The Call'' (JAPO, 1971)
'''With Exmagma''' * ''Exmagma'' (Neusi, 1973) * ''Goldball'' (Disjuncta, 1975) * ''3'' (Daily, 2006)
'''With others''' * ''Echoes from the Prague Jazz Festival'' with Leo Wright, Benny Bailey (Supraphon Rec, 1964) * Bob Degen, ''Celebrations'' (Calig, 1968) * Robin Kenyatta, ''Girl from Martinique'' (ECM, 1970) * Michael Hornstein, ''Langsames Blau'' (Enja, 1994) * {{ill|Chuck Henderson|de}} and Mal Waldron, ''Black Issues'' (Chazra, 1994)
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.exmagma.de/ ExMagma] * {{discogs artist|Fred Braceful}} * {{imdb name|7917371}}
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