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BIOGRAPHY Jens Bunge
was born September 24, 1963. At the age of 18, he began
to teach himself to play the chromatic harmonica. Influenced by the
recordings of Toots Thielemans, he soon found his passion for jazz. In the mid 80s, while
studying theology at the University of Heidelberg (Bunge is an ordained
Protestant minister!), he began to perform with local big bands and jazz
groups. The following years saw him
as a guest soloist with the Thilo Berg Big Band featuring Ack van Rooyen
and Barbara Dennerlein (www.barbaradennerlein.com),
with Art Farmer, Bill Ramsey and the
German Jazz Orchestra BuJazzO (http://www.bujazzo.de/), conducted by Peter
Herbolzheimer. Being an untiring
globetrotter, Jens Bunge has been playing his harmonica on all five
continents: New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Montreal, Honolulu, Rio de
Janeiro, Sydney, Singapore, Hong Kong, Bangkok and Cape Town are just a
few of the locations where he appeared as a featured guest (Picture
Gallery). At the European Harp
Festival 1996 and the World Harmonica Festivals 1997 and 2001 in
Trossingen, he conducted the workshop "jazz on the chromatic
harmonica". He performed at the gala
concerts and was a jury member of the harmonica competitions at the 3rd
Asia Pacific Harmonica Festival in Seoul/Korea (2000) and the 4th Asia
Pacific Harmonica Festival in Atsugi/Japan (2002). He is – alternating with
Jamey Aebersold - a regular writer for the jazz column of the
international magazine "The
Harmonica Educator". By now, Jens Bunge has
recorded six CDs
under his own name, and appears as a guest on recordings of Ralf
Gauck, Peter Lehel,
Chantal (http://www.chantal.de/de/html/entrance/)
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