Tingvall Trio: »Dance«

Martin Tingvall was born in the Swedish province of Scania in 1974. After having studied jazz piano, composition, and improvisation in Sweden and Holland, he is now based in Hamburg. There, he has collaborated with a whole number of renowned artists, including Inga Rumpf, Orange Blue, and Udo Lindenberg. As a special guest, he has shared the stage with Till Brönner, Chris Barber, Pete York, Kurt Elling, and Klaus Doldinger. Martin Tingvall is also active as a songwriter and as a composer of movie soundtracks, and has composed the music to various television productions, including several episodes of the »Tatort« series. In 2003, Martin Tingvall, the drummer Jürgen Spiegel, and the bassist Omar Rodriuez Calvo started the Tingvall Trio. 2012 the first of two acclaimed solo albums was launched. Martin Tingvall composes the music for the Tingvall Trio, earning it three ECHO Jazz, five Jazz Awards in Gold as well as Hamburg’s prestigious HANS award for the best production of 2011.

Omar Rodriguez Calvo was born in Matanzas, Cuba, in 1973, where he studied double bass, electronic bass guitar, classical music, jazz, and popular music from 1984 to 1992. At 17 years of age he began performing with Argelia Fragoso and, subsequently, with Carlos Maza and Ramon Valle. Following his relocation to Hamburg in 1994, he has performed with various acclaimed artists, the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, the NDR Bigband and many more. Apart from the HANS, the ECHO Jazz and Jazz Awards in Gold he received as part of the Tingvall Trio, he was awarded an ECHO Klassik with the formation Classica Cubana, and was nominated for ECHO Jazz awards in 2015 and 2016 as national instrumentalist of the year in the category bass/bass guitar. Omar Rodriguez Calvo particularly shapes the Tingvall Trio’s sound through his rhythmic and melodic distinctiveness, conveying an unmistakeable hint of his Latin American origins to the listener.

Jürgen Spiegel was born in Bremen in 1972 where he commenced his studies as a percussionist at the Conservatory of Music at the early age of 17. Subsequently, he studied jazz and popular music in Bremen, Groning, Hamburg, and at the Manhattan School of Music, New York. As a drummer, Jürgen Spiegel has performed with bands at home with all musical styles, including Kurt Elling, Yari Carissi, Dominic Miller, Nneka, Michael Kiske (Helloween), and the NDR Bigband at virtually all German festvials (Hurricane, Rock am Ring) and many European ones as well. In 2008 he was the first German to compose and produce theme music for the Al Jazeera broadcasting service, drawing much attention in the United Arab Emirates. In 2009 he produced the CD Dubai Nights (Virgin), containing compositions of Arabian Bedouins. Due to his rock temperament, Jürgen Spiegel is able to add his own unique impulses to the Nordic character of the Tingvall Trio’s pieces.

Ondrej Krajňák (Klavier), Josef Fečo (Kontrabass), Otto Hejnic (Schlagzeug)