Andreas Molino

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Andreas "Molino" Müller (born February 15, 1963 ) is a German percussionist who is active in the field of Latin American music and jazz .

Molino studied Afro-Cuban percussion and singing as well as arrangement and composition at the Centro de Investigación y Desarollo de la Música Cubana in Havana and Santiago de Cuba. He also took lessons from the master drummer Pancho Ouinto and learned the Batá drum . He worked in Cuba and Germany with orchestras and groups in the fields of son , rumba , salsa , flamenco , Latin jazz , samba , bossa nova , fusion and funk and founded a charanga group in the province of Santiago de Cuba . He also recorded the album Yéyé Oludé in Cuba when Andreas y sus Amigos recorded the album .

Since 2004 Molino has performed with the Buschwerk group and with Nippy Noya . Molino is also a member of the Jazzou group and the Soul Jazz Department, founded in 2001 (with Marc Leymann , Felix Heydemann , Ron Cherian , Philipp Bardenberg and Florian Bungardt ). He appears in the group New World Ritual - Flautomania with Michael Heupel and Radek Stawarz and gives master classes for Afro-Cuban and popular Cuban percussion in Germany, Belgium, France and Holland. He teaches as a teacher at the Open House Jazz School in Cologne.