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Retirement is out of the question for Klaus Doldinger, who will celebrate his 85th birthday on May 12, 2021. Always with a passion for music, his ears are still widely pricked up. Back then, in the early 1950s, he founded the Dixieland band The Feetwarmers, which was followed by the Klaus Doldinger Quartet, with whom he devoted himself to modern jazz. Today, he says modestly, he wants to keep improving all the time. But what exactly, one is willing to ask. In filling his saxophone tone with even more soul? In composing? Actually, he has already played, told and said everything and more that a music maker can convey in almost two lives. As if mental and physical vitality were nothing, he looks at you a little skeptically and answers with conviction: "Of course in everything". The First 50 Years of Passport impressively traces the many different musical paths and connections that Klaus Doldinger and his numerous bandmates have trodden and found over the last half century in a compressed form on one album. Over 5000 concerts, which Passport played on almost every continent in the world, have left their mark on the great work of the important band. The First 50 Years of Passport has become a remarkable cross-section - carefully compiled by the "Master and Mentor", as Klaus Doldinger is respectfully referred to by Udo Lindenberg. Re-mastered, the pieces shine more than ever and take the listener on a more intense journey into the history of Passport.