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Jonas Burgwinkel

Jonas Burgwinkel is a drummer, composer, bandleader, collective organizer, and educator whose work links the Pablo Held Trio with Cologne-based projects.

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Career Overview

About Jonas Burgwinkel

Burgwinkel’s official biography traces drum study in Cologne, Boston, and Maastricht and a career spanning more than fifty recordings. It highlights a sustained relationship with the Pablo Held Trio alongside worldwide work in many leader and collaborative settings.[1]

His project archive distinguishes Source Direct, Medusa Beats, solo work, the Pablo Held Trio, and a broad set of co-led ensembles. The same biography places those projects beside his Cologne professorship and co-founding role in the KLAENG jazz collective.[1][2]

Ensembles and Career Threads

Bands & Projects

Co-leader and drummer

Pablo Held Trio

Burgwinkel’s biography identifies the trio as one of his most intensive and internationally active musical partnerships.[1][2]

Leader, drummer, and composer

Source Direct and Medusa Beats

The official project guide presents two distinct Burgwinkel-led settings alongside his solo and collaborative work.[2]

Co-founder, drummer, and organizer

KLAENG collective

Burgwinkel’s biography documents his role in the Cologne collective as a presenter, network builder, and label participant.[1]

Selected, Not Exhaustive

Recordings to Know

2011

Source Direct

Leader and drummer

The leader recording gives Burgwinkel a dedicated project under his own name outside the Pablo Held Trio.[2]

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2015

Side B

Leader, drummer, and producer

Recorded across three nights at Cologne’s Stecken club, Side B preserves Burgwinkel’s free jazz and groove sessions with a changing local cast.[3][2]

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2018

Medusa Beats

Leader and drummer

Medusa Beats documents a second leader identity within Burgwinkel’s broad Cologne project archive.[2]

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Artist-Authorized Destinations

Start Listening

Side B on Bandcamp

Hear Burgwinkel’s complete live Cologne session with personnel and first-party project notes.

Official music archive

Explore Burgwinkel’s selected recordings across leader and collaborative ensembles.

Live Calendar

Upcoming Jazz DateBook Shows

Mon, Sep 21, 8:00 PM

Alec Goldfarb Quartet

LOFT Cologne · Cologne

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Evidence-Based Connections

Related Musician Guides

Connections below come from shared current Jazz DateBook bills or normalized documented performance roles—not subjective similarity.

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Sources

Career copy is original synthesis from the artist, label, and project sources below. Current dates come from Jazz DateBook event inventory.

  1. [1] Official biography, education, and collective work

    Jonas Burgwinkel

  2. [2] Official leader and collaborative project guide

    Jonas Burgwinkel

  3. [3] Side B live album and personnel notes

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