Martin Wind

Bassist and Composer Martin Wind has worked with artists such as Guidon Kremer, Pat Metheny, Hank Jones, Sting, John Scofield, Michael and Randy Brecker, Mstislav Rostropowitch, Frank Wess, Johnny Mandel, Mark Murphy, Cedar Walton, Lalo Schifrin, Bucky Pizzarelli, Buddy DeFranco and many others. He is a member of the trios of Bill Mays, Dena DeRose, and Ann Hampton Callaway. He plays in Matt Wilson's group "Arts and Crafts" and appears frequently with the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. He won 3rd prize at the "Thelonious Monk Bass Competition" in 1995, won the "Cognac Hennessy/Blue Note Jazz Search" in 1996 and became the first Jazz musician to win the cultural award of his home state of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.