Klaus Doldinger was one of Germany’s leading jazz musicians who studied piano and saxophone. In 1969, he founded the psychedelic fusion band Doldinger’s Motherhood, an „all-star“ line-up comprising outstanding and renowned musicians who all went on to have spectacular careers: the sought-after drummer and singer Keith Forsey from England, the popular bassist Lothar Meid, the producer Paul Vincent on electric guitar, and the drummer and singer Udo Lindenberg, one of Germany’s best-known rock musicians. Following their debut LP, they recorded their second album Motherhood in 1970, which Doldinger also produced. The album presents a magnificent combination of psychedelic, fusion, jazz and prog rock with English vocals.

The final LP, released that same year on the multinational Liberty label with a psychedelic-inspired cover design by Ulrich Eichberger, was innovative, experimental and genre-defining. With this, Klaus Doldinger – who played tenor, alto and soprano saxophones as well as the clarinet, piano and organ, and also sang – laid the foundation for his subsequent successful career with his follow-up band Passport. Both releases by Doldinger’s Motherhood now enjoy legendary status and, as original German pressings in superb vinyl condition, are in high demand. Motherhood is generally regarded as the better of the two albums and is therefore the most sought-after.