Rüdiger Baldauf (born 31 January 1961 in Bensberg, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German jazz musician, trumpet player, composer and arranger.

Since 2003 Baldauf has been playing trumpet in Stefan Raab's Tonight Show TV total[3] in the band heavytones.

[4] Prominent guests accompanied him, like Till Brönner, Nils Landgren, Ack van Rooyen, Andy Haderer and Max Mutzke.

Baldauf completed a classical education but at an early age he preferred Jazz, Funk and Soul.

He used to play the first trumpet in Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story as well as Neue Musik of Mauricio Kagel.