Hendrik Meurkens

Since he started taking harmonica solos within the mid-’50s, Toots Thielemans continues to be without the close competition in his instrument, a minimum of until Hendrik Meurkens arrived. Blessed in Germany to Dutch parents, Meurkens started being a vibraphonist, not really playing harmonica until he noticed Thielemans when he was 19. He traveled to the U.S. to review at Berklee and spent amount of time in Brazil in the first ’80s, where he immersed himself in Brazilian jazz. Back Berlin, Meurkens proved helpful within the studios, but additionally recorded using the Danish Radio Orchestra and acquired his very own jazz group. He produced an archive in Brazil for the Bellaphon label (1989) and since 1991 provides recorded several pieces for Concord and Concord Picante being a leader, furthermore to showing up on records being a sideman with Charlie Byrd.