Herbert Joos ([ˈhɛʁbɛʁt ˈjoːs]; 21 March 1940 – 7 December 2019) was a German jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, and graphic designer.

He studied double bass[1] from 1958, but then turned to flugelhorn, baritone horn, mellophone, and alphorn.

Since the mid-1960s, he has been a member of Modern Jazz quintet Karlsruhe, from which the group Fourmenonly was created (with Wilfried Eichhorn and Rudolf Theilmann [de]).

He played at festivals and in the Free Jazz Meeting Baden-Baden [de] of the SWF at a flugelhorn workshop with Kenny Wheeler, Ian Carr, Harry Beckett and Ack van Rooyen and made a name for himself with his solo recording, The Philosophy of the Flugelhorn in 1973.

[1][5] Instead of a speech after the laudations, he thanked in a short phrase, and played a concert with an orchestra of 16.