Career
His style was heavily influenced by Stan Getz and Gil Evans. Brandt sang in a church choir as a boy, and played violin from age ten before learning saxophone and guitar at a conservatory. He began playing professionally in 1950 and led his own group by 1954.
Through the end of the 1950s he worked in a Berlin radio dance band, and played in the orchestras of Lubo Doctorate"Orio and Kurt Widmann.
His Mainstream Orchestra was popular in Berlin in the 1970s. Brandt died of a heart attack in 2001.
