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Klaus Kugel

Country: Germany

Klaus Kugel is a German drummer, percussionist and composer, born on 6 July 1959. He studied at the jazz school in Munich and has worked internationally since 1989, touring Europe, North and South America, Asia and the Middle East. Kugel played in the Michel Pilz quartet from 1986, worked with Lithuanian saxophonist Petras Vyšniauskas from 1989 and joined Theo Jörgensmann's quartet in 1994. From 1999 he was part of Vyacheslav Ganelin's Trio Priority, and he formed The Escalators with Ken Vandermark and Mark Tokar.