DESCRIPTION:
A Plushmusic portrait of Jonas Burgwinkel with a strong focus on his work in Cologne and the KLAENG Jazz collective.

Jonas Burgwinkel is a very sought after player in the european jazzscene. He studied drums at music colleges in Cologne, Boston and Maastricht with Michael Küttner, Ralph Peterson and Jamey Haddad.

He was awarded the reknown "ECHO JAZZ" 2012 as best drummer "BEST SOLOIST AWARD" on the European Jazz Competition at the North Sea Jazzfestival , the prestigous "WDR JAZZPREIS" in Germany and the Dutch "TRITONE AWARD"  among others.

The press refers to him often as one of the leading young percussion players of the European Jazzscene.Burgwinkel also holds the drum Professor chair at the reknown "Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln".

During his young career he has already recorded over 40 jazz albums and toured worldwide in numerous different settings with artists like Mark Murphy, Lee Konitz, Uri Caine, Antonio Farao, John Taylor, Nils Wogram, Joachim Kühn or Dave Liebman.

Produced by Erol Sarp and Michael Zöllner