Torsten de Winkel

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Torsten de Winkel
Background information
Born (1965-01-06) 6 January 1965 (age 60)
Frankfurt am Main, West Germany
GenresJazz, world music, contemporary fusion
OccupationMusician
Instrument(s)Guitar, keyboards
Years active1980–present
Websitetorstendewinkel.com

Torsten de Winkel (born 6 January 1965) is a German musician, composer, and philosopher primarily active in the jazz, world music, fusion and electronic music genres. He is known as an electric and acoustic guitarist but also records and performs on electric sitar, keyboards, and percussion. Since the 1990s, he has initiated and participated in several platforms aimed at combining the arts and sustainability.

Biography

At the age of 10, de Winkel picked up the Charango in La Paz, Bolivia where his father worked for the UN. He taught himself guitar and jazz improvisation and attended the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, Germany for a brief period.

For the release of Mastertouch, he collaborated with Michael Brecker, Billy Cobham, Kai Eckhardt, Ernie Watts, Alphonse Mouzon, Hellmut Hattler, Joachim Kühn and various other instrumentalists.[1]

Upon an invitation by Steve Smith and Tom Coster, members of Santana and Journey, de Winkel become successor to Mike Stern and Frank Gambale in their co-led jazz-fusion group Vital Information and toured internationally with this group. He graduated from the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He can also be heard on all ten CDs of the German vanguard electronica-jazz fusion duo Tab Two and continues to tour and record with Hattler, the group of former Kraan head Hellmut Hattler. This group won the Echo Award, the German equivalent of the Grammy Award, for best jazz album in 2001.[citation needed]

Books

Discography

As leader

As sideman

With Hellmut Hattler

  • Heartware (Vielklang, 1986)
  • Mind Movie (Intercord, 1991)
  • No Eats Yes (Polydor / Universal, 2000)
  • Remixed Vocal Cuts (Bassball, 2002)
  • Mallberry Moon (Bassball, 2003)
  • Bass Cuts (Bassball, 2004)
  • Surround Cuts (Bassball/36music 2004)
  • The Big Flow (Bassball/36music 2006)
  • Live Cuts (Bassball/36music, 2007)
  • Gotham City Beach Club Suite (Bassball/36music, 2010)
  • Live in Glems (Bassball/36music, 2013)
  • The Kite (Bassball/36music, 2013)
  • Live Cuts II (Bassball/36music, 2014)
  • Warhol Holidays (36music/Bassball, 2016)
  • Bassball II (Bassball/36music, 2017)
  • Velocity (Bassball/36music, 2018)

With Tab Two

  • Space Case (Intercord, 1992)
  • Hip Jazz (Intercord, 1994)
  • Flagman Ahead (Virgin, 1995)
  • Sonic Tools (Virgin, 1997)
  • Between Us (Polydor, 1999)
  • Live at the Roxy (36music, 2012)

With others

References

  1. ↑ Sandner, Wolfgang (1990). Jazz in Frankfurt. [Frankfurt am Main]: Societäts-Verlag. ISBN 3-7973-0480-3. OCLC 25240616.