Jens Bunge

Jens Uwe Bunge (born September 24, 1963 in Brilon ) is a German modern jazz musician ( harmonica ) and pastor.

Life

Bunge is self-taught ; first he played folk music on the diatonic harmonica and guitar as a child , then learned the trumpet , and at the age of eighteen, under the impression of Toots Thielemans, switched to the chromatic harmonica. During his theology studies at the University of Heidelberg , he completed a jazz training with Werner Pöhlert . As early as 1986 he appeared with Peter Herbolzheimer , Thilo Berg and with the Federal Jazz Orchestra . Since 1989 he has played with Wolf Mayer , who was also a member of the sextet he founded in 1994. Bunge also performs solo and with a trio; he also works with the guitarist Uli Wagner. So far he has recorded six albums under his own name. He is also involved in recordings by Ralf Gauck , Peter Lehel , Anke Helfrich and Chantal . He has also appeared with Barbara Dennerlein , Art Farmer , and Bill Ramsey .

He gave workshops at the World Harmonica Festival . Alternately with Jamey Aebersold , he oversees the jazz column of the international trade magazine The Harmonica Educator .

Bunge's main job is an ordained Protestant pastor at a vocational school in Ludwigshafen am Rhein .

Discography

• It's A Beautiful World (1994)
• With All My Heart (1997)
• Meet You In Chicago (2000)
• Shanghai Blue (2009)

Lexigraphic entries

• Martin Kunzler : Jazz Lexicon. Volume 1: A – L (= rororo-Sachbuch. Vol. 16512). 2nd Edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-16512-0 .
• Jürgen Wölfer : Jazz in Germany. The encyclopedia. All musicians and record companies from 1920 until today. Hannibal, Höfen 2008, ISBN 978-3-85445-274-4 .

Web links

• Works by and about Jens Bunge in the catalog of the German National Library
• Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians
• Jens Bunge on jazzpages.com
• Jens Bunge at Discogs (English)