Wulf Müller
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 in 1981 with friends the jazz club ‘miles smiles’ and was as well co-founder of the Austrian jazz magazine ‘Jazz Live’ in 1982.
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. There he overlooked the global marketing campaigns for Luciano Pavarotti, Cecilia Bartoli, Herbie Hancock, Diana Krall, George Benson, Wayne Shorter, Ornette Coleman and many others.
In early 2000 he was made V.P. International A&R and Marketing, Jazz and Classical, signing jazz artists like Sonny Rollins, Roy Hargrove, John Scofield, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Branford Marsalis, Madeleine Peyroux and others to the EmArCy label. This position he kept until 2010, when he left Universal to start the music consultancy All-In-Music Service with his wife Yolanda Chalmeta, working out of Madrid, Spain. After two years of consulting for Universal International the company signed in 2012 a contract with Sony Classical International to re-activate the old OKeh jazz label. In the following few years, he signed to OKeh artists like Bill Frisell, Sonny Rollins, Dhafer Youssef, Somi, Theo Croker, Branford Marsalis, Dee Dee Bridgewater, John Medeski, Michel Camilo, James Brandon Lewis and others.
All-In-Music Service as well looked after the European jazz tours of Branford Marsalis between 2011 and 2016 and booked James Carter and a few others on occasions too.
When Sony Classical decided at the end of 2019 to stop producing jazz records, he initially looked for new opportunities, but with the start of the Covid 19 pandemic in early 2020, he decided to retire that year and wrote his memoir, a chronicle titled ‘A Life In Music’, released in 2022 via amazon direct publishing.