Thorsten Klentze

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Thorsten Klentze (right) with Roger Jannotta and Marcos Davi (2014)

Thorsten Klentze (born June 15, 1956 in Hamburg ) is a German jazz musician (guitar, composition).

Live and act

Klentze already played in Hamburg clubs during his school days. There he met Bert Jansch , Hannes Wader  and Franz Josef Degenhardt . In the mid-1970s, influenced by Zbigniew Seifert , Toto Blanke , Keith Jarrett , Eberhard Weber and Charlie Mariano , his music expanded into contemporary jazz. His group Fisherman's Break with saxophonist Wolfgang Wahl toured Europe in the 1980s. In the 1990s a new trio with Marika Falk and Jost H. Hecker formed around him. He was best known for his collaboration with Charlie Mariano , who appeared as a guest soloist from 1995 to 2006 in concerts and at festivals with the Thorsten Klentze Quartet.

The long-term collaboration with Roger Jannotta  was documented in CD productions with, among others, the vibraphonist David Friedman , on which the two repeatedly presented themselves as unconventional composers. The discographer Tom Lord lists his participation in seven recording sessions between 1991 and 2006 in the field of jazz.

Klentze has lived in Munich with his wife Birgit since the 1980s, where he also works as a music teacher. His son is the actor Bela Klentze .

Discographic notes

  • Fisherman`s Break (Edition Collage 1991, with Wolfgang Wahl, Michael Keul, Gary Todd )
  • Tigrib ( Konnex 1995; with Charlie Mariano, Jost H. Hecker, Marika Falk)
  • Marika Falk, Thorsten Klentze, Jost H. Hecker, Roger Jannotta, Charlie Mariano Mariano (Konnex 1999)
  • Thorsten Klentze, Roger Jannotta, David Friedman Late (Konnex, 2000)
  • Thorsten Klentze, Roger Jannotta, Jost H. Hecker, Marika Falk Ahoi (Konnex 2003)
  • You Have Been Here Before (Konnex 2007, Roger Jannotta, Jost H. Hecker, Sascha Gotowtschikow)
  • Live in the Unterfahrt (Konnex 2010, with Mathias Engl , Roger Jannotta, Christian Lachotta, Sascha Gotowtschikow)
  • Brisant (Konnex 2013, with Ute Holzapfel, Roger Jannotta, Paul Tietze , Marika Falk)
  • Klentze-Jannotta-Tietze (Konnex 2016, with Roger Jannotta, Paul Tietze)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “Pleasantly seasoned” - Thorsten Klentze Quartet feat. Charlie Mariano , concert review in the 2004/02 jazz newspaper, accessed January 15, 2017
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 15, 2017)
  3. ↑ A look at current albums: Jazz guitarists , review on Spiegel Online February 14, 2016, accessed January 15, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Klentze, Thorsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician (guitar, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg , Germany