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Wolfgang Muthspiel

Wolfgang Muthspiel is a guitarist, composer, vocalist, bandleader, label founder, and educator whose projects span trio, quintet, solo, strings, and song forms.

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Career Overview

About Wolfgang Muthspiel

Muthspiel’s official biography traces classical violin study, a turn to guitar and jazz, work with Gary Burton, and later activity in New York and Vienna. It documents composition, bandleading, singing, label work, and jazz education as separate strands of his career.[1]

The official record archive distinguishes the ECM trio and quintet, MGT with Slava Grigoryan and Ralph Towner, Vienna Naked and Vienna World song projects, solo guitar, and the Austria String Trio. Material Records and later independent editions extend that project map.[1][2]

Ensembles and Career Threads

Bands & Projects

Leader, guitarist, and composer

Wolfgang Muthspiel Trio

The ECM trio places Muthspiel with bass and drums in a flexible original-music setting.[1][2]

Leader, guitarist, and composer

Wolfgang Muthspiel Quintet

The quintet expands his writing with piano and trumpet alongside bass and drums.[1][2]

Guitarist, vocalist, composer, and co-leader

Vienna Naked, Vienna World, and MGT

The official guide separates song projects and the three-guitar collaboration from Muthspiel’s rhythm-section bands.[1][2]

Selected, Not Exhaustive

Recordings to Know

2016 · ECM Records

Rising Grace

Quintet leader, guitarist, and composer

The quintet recording joins Muthspiel with Brad Mehldau, Ambrose Akinmusire, Larry Grenadier, and Brian Blade.[1][2]

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2018 · ECM Records

Where the River Goes

Quintet leader, guitarist, and composer

The second quintet album documents revised personnel and a new program under Muthspiel’s leadership.[1][2]

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2023 · ECM Records

Dance of the Elders

Trio leader, guitarist, and composer

The trio album places Muthspiel with bassist Scott Colley and drummer Brian Blade.[2]

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Artist-Authorized Destinations

Start Listening

Official record archive

Browse Muthspiel’s trio, quintet, solo, string, song, and collaborative releases.

Wolfgang Muthspiel on Bandcamp

Stream artist-authorized Material Records and independent projects from the guitarist’s catalog.

Live Calendar

Upcoming Jazz DateBook Shows

Fri, Sep 25, 7:00 PM

Wolfgang Muthspiel - Solo

The Jazz Gallery · New York

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Fri, Sep 25, 9:00 PM

Wolfgang Muthspiel - Solo

The Jazz Gallery · New York

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Sat, Oct 3, 8:30 PM

Kris Davis & Wolfgang Muthspiel Duo (CA/A)

Porgy & Bess · Vienna

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Evidence-Based Connections

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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, projects, label, and teaching

    Wolfgang Muthspiel

  2. [2] Official complete recording archive

    Wolfgang Muthspiel