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Thomas Wingren

About Me

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I have been working as a percussionist with a lot of different acts, playing latin, jazz, soul and various club music for the last 15 years. I work mostly in Stockholm but occasionally I've been touring around Sweden and abroad. I got my education at Drummers Collective, New York and I have also studied in Santiago de Cuba and in Havana, Cuba. I've also been working a lot as a DJ. I'm mostly playing jazz, nu-jazz, soulful house and old-school soul/funk but sometimes I play pure salsa and timba at latin clubs.....

The last couple of years I have been focusing on projects which combine the elements from DJ-ing and club music with live instruments. I have done this in various forms, from an 8-piece nu-jazz act down to duo projects.

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Member Since: 10/12/2006
Band Website: expansionsmusic.com, myspace.com/osgatos
Band Members: .. .. Expansions (contemporary jazz / nu jazz) : Adam Forkelid - Keyboards
Opolopo - Laptop, keyboards and production. : Thomas Wingren - Percussion and turntables :
Guests: : Jonas Kullhammar
Karl-Martin Almqvist
Magnus Lindgren
Peter Asplund
Nils Berg
Putte Frick-Meijer
Klas Toresson
Mariam
Horacio : Linn : : Opolopo (broken beat / house / nu jazz) : Opolopo - Laptop, keyboards and production : Thomas Wingren - Percussion and turntables : + various guests : : Os Gatos (brazilian jazz) : Adam Forkelid - piano : Putte Frick-Meijer - bass : Calle Rasmusson - drums : Thomas Wingren - pandeiro, various percussion : :


Influences: Herbie Hancock, Marvin Gaye, Hermeto Pascoal, Moacir Santos, Orlando Maraca Valle, Leroy Hutson, Jon Lucien, Jeff Ballard, Avishai Cohen , David Sanchez, Jerry Gonzalez and the Fort Apache Band, John Benitez, Oliver Nelson, Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, Omar Sosa, Orlando Puntilla Rios, Salif Keita, Craig Taborn.
Those were the first names that popped out of my head. I ncredible musicians from now and then , playing styles like hard bop, contemporary jazz, soul, Cuban, Brazilian... But my greatest influences are the teachers I’ve had the opportunity to meet: Bobby Sanabria , John Amira, Duduka da Fonseca, Juan Bauste Granda, Marcos Suzano, Sergio Krakowski among others


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Type of Label: Indie

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