My Bands are something like a higher long-term-relationships (TEAM), where the partners are all different, but fit very well, and everyone, bold enough to undertake the adventure to play my compositions and dare to be part of this exceptional ensemble, gets catapulted into energy-fields of existence, into which you wouldn't be capable of stepping in, just by yourself. And that goes for the acting artist as well as the discriminating listener.

Now we document our working-achievements on CDs, LPs, VIDEOs, photos and written-down-statements. Worldwide reactions are transmitted to us by our fans, audiences, musicians, artists, Radio-DJs, Jazz critics, Magazines, articles, valuations, judgments, awards and portrayals, descriptions about what our music means in THEIR worlds, and we see, what positive influences we are having on the further development of the new music, sounds and playing techniques and the conscious-expanding, spiritual development of the people in the world.

We are called pioneers, which re-new the music. We also are simply creative to make new compositions, design new musical rooms and platforms and concepts, which allow us more freedom to move, that we can express those things which are in us and what suits more our generation’s potential and influences our lives, now and in the future.

That gives us and our audiences, worldwide, a lot of fun to do.
My music changes and stays fresh, each participant is challenged up to, and above, his own limitations, and the results (CDs, LPs, Concerts, VIDEOs) are the measuring rod and inspiration for generations to come.

I find it extremely important, that labels like BIRTH RECORDS exist, on which we can publish our stuff in that way as we work them out as musicians, composers, arrangers and within working units (ensembles) outside any commercial attitudes. …….

Gunter Hampel "the 8th of July 1969" (Birth 001)

Gunter Hampel - piano, vibes, bcl, compositions, lyrics; Anthony Braxton -as, contra-bcl, Sopraninosaxophone; Jeanne Lee - voice; Willem Breuker - as, ts, bcl, ss; Arjen Gorter - bass, bassguitar; Steve McCall - drums

tracks: We Move - Morning Song - Crepuscule - The 8th of July 1969 - 5 / We Move, Take 1 - We Move, Take 2 - The 8th of July 1969, Take 1

Gunter Hampel - compositions, vibraphone, bassclarinet, baritonsaxophone; Manfred Schoof - trumpet; Albert Mangelsdorf - tb; Marion Brown - as; Perry Robinson - cl; Thomas Keyserling - as,fl; Jeanne Lee - voice; Barre Phillips - bass; Steve McCall - dm

tracks: Waiting - Little Bird - Waltz for universes in a corridor - Loughing to keep from crying - Turbulence

Gunter Hampel - vibraphone, bassclarinet, flute, compositions; Nils Wogram - trombone; Christian Weidner - altosaxophone

tracks: Since Then - Jetzt erst recht - Who´s controlling whom?
("live" at the Apex)

GUNTER HAMPEL "art of the SOLO" concert
DUO with Christian Weidner, or Gerrit Juhnke etc.
TRIO with WEIDNER,JUHNKE
Quartet-Quintet-Sextet-Septet-Oktet-Nonet
GUNTER HAMPEL ORCHESTRA (BIG BAND)
GUNTER HAMPEL "HEARTPLANTS"QUINTET with Manfred Schoof - tp,
Alexander v. Schlippenbach - p; Pierre Courbois - dm; Jan Roder - b
GUNTER HAMPEL FREE WILL SEXTET (nyc-based)
Gunter Hampel - vibraphone, flute, bassclarinet; Dmitry Baevsky - as; Art Baron - tb; Clemens Orth - p; Wilber Morris - b; Lou Grassi - dm
TRIO + PRINCE ALEGS
HAMPEL WEIDNER JUHNKE ALEGS
GUNTER HAMPEL + NEXT GENERATION (9)
Hampel; A.Beierbach; Cl. Orth; Jaro Juhnke; Magnolia voice; Prince Alegs; b-boy-dancer; Phunky Child - rap; Stefan Graeve - sound
CONCERT + workshop WITH and FOR CHILDREN
Model: LEIPZIG (JAZZTAGE IM OPERNHAUS)
BIRTH VIDEO (PAL-VHS) 01-10-07
workshop teachers: HAMPEL; PRINCE ALEGS (breakdance); PHUNKY CHILD rap and poetry; JUHNKE - dm
Concert with and for children + NEXT GENERATION