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Biggi Vinkeloe

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Biggi Vinkeloe has lived in Germany and France. Today she lives in Sweden and partly in California. She started with classical flute studies, and came to improvised music already as a teenager. But it was not until she was 24 years old before she got her first saxophone, a Buffet Crampon. Today, she plays a Selmer Super Action from the eighties with a Ducoff mouthpiece. She has studied mostly on her own, and sometimes with great musicians from different fields, among them David Glasser, Dave Liebman, John Tchicai and Bill Dobbins. She has recorded with her own trio, the Biggi Vinkeloe Trio, with drummer Peeter Uuskyla and different bassists, Georg Wolf, Peter Kowald, Barre Phillips. Tours in Europe, USA and Canada and several recordings. Peeter Uuskyla was one of the first musicians supporting Biggi Vinkeloe as a jazz woman. In 2000 she began to collaborate with heavy metal bass player Magnus Rosen (HammarFall), two CD's which were very successful in Brazil and Argentina of all places. In 2001 she was the 3rd musician ever to be invited as an Artist in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts outside San Francisco, after Glen Spearman and Miya Masaoka. Different collaborations came out of this intense period, with, among others, Donald Robinson and Lisle Ellis (REV), Chris Brown and Donald Robinson (CBD-Trio) and Miya Masaoka. Biggi Vinkeloe has initiated and produced many cross-over projects (MAD, music, art, dance / over the ocean / echoes). She gives workshops and performs in Europe and the US. Meeting with other musicians and artists is still inspiring and wonderful!

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Member Since: 06/05/2007
Band Website: www.biggivinkeloe.com
Band Members: CBD-Trio: Chris Brown, piano, electronics and Donald Robinson, drumsRosen - Vinkeloe: Magnus Rosen, electric bassREV: Lisle Ellis, bass and Donald Robinson, drumsnew collaboration with Bruce Eisenbeil, electric guitar, Lisle Ellis and Donald Robinson (CD to be released soon)
Influences: Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Bach, Stravinsky, Mozart, Varese, Vivaldi, Ligetti, Charlie Parker, Lee Konitz, Barre Phillips, Don Cherry, Dudu Pukwana, Django Reinhardt, Billy Holliday, Camille Claudel, Georgia O'Keefe, Yves Klein, Jackson Pollock, Rothko, Dali, Joan Miro, Herman Hesse, Colette, Anne Frank, Yogananda, Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Bjork, Van Gogh, Sam Francis, Elvis Costello, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Elvis Jones, Janis Joplin, Jimmie Hendrix, Charles Mingus, Thelonius Monk, Miles Davis, Peter Brotzmann, my kids and friends all over the world.Biggi Vinkeloe has performed with Peeter Uuskyla, Donald Robinson, Peter Friis Nielsen, Cecil Taylor, Paul Plimley, Ken Filiano, Steve Swell, Bruce Eisenbeil, Georg Wolf, Jacques Veille, Nina de Heney, Paul Obermayer, Lotte Anker, Lisle Ellis, Chris Brown, Miya Masaoka, Gino Robair, Peter Kowald, Barre Phillips, Jean-Marc Montera, Harris Eisenstadt, Damon Smith, Jerome Bryerton, Sylvie Degiez, Perry Robinson, Hayes Greenfield, Jackson Krall, Wayne Lopes, Georg Wolf,Peter Janson, Wolfred Zierl, Arne Forsen, Sten Sandell, Kojo Samuels, Magnus Rosen, Anders Johansson, Emrik, Birger Lofman, Mary Oliver, Thierry Maucci, Jonathan Segel, Dina Emerson, Rex Casswell, George Cremaschi, Pascal Vignon, Alex Cline, Chris Heenan, Jeremy Drake, Mikolaj Trzaska, Marie Warme, Marie Selander, Susanna Lindeborg, Joel Futterman, Filippo Monico, Giancarlo Locatelli, Alberto Braida, Massimo Falascone, Tito Manjelaio Rantzer, Terje Isungset, Vijay Iyer, John Schiurba, among others.
Record Label: 482 / nuscope / eld / slask / rastascan
Type of Label: Indie

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