Mads Vinding

Mads Vinding (born 7 December 1948 in Copenhagen ) is a Danish jazz bassist.

Vinding began in 1964 to play as a professional jazz musician. He was long house bassist at the famous jazz club Montmartre in Copenhagen and accompanied besides, numerous foreign jazz musicians. He played among other things with Herbie Hancock, Stan Getz, Lee Konitz, Chet Baker, Quincy Jones, Ben Webster, Hank Jones, Peter Herbolzheimer, Johnny Griffin, Duke Jordan, Kenny Drew, Martial Solal, Bob Brookmeyer, Putte Wickman, Charlie Mariano, Art Farmer and Dee Dee Bridgewater. In the early 1990s he played with Alex Riel in the trio of pianist Thomas Clausen (Psalm, 1994)

He founded his own trio, which was launched in 1997 with Enrico Pieranunzi and Alex Riel and with the album The Kingdom where nobody won this as best jazz CD in Denmark the price. 1998 played in his Trio Roger Kellaway and from 1999 to Carsten Dahl on piano. With their album Six hands, three minds, one heart ( Stunt Records 2000 Live from the Copenhagen Jazz House), they won three Danish Grammys.

In addition, he also wrote several film scores.

In 2007 he received the Django d' Or ( Denmark) as Master of Jazz and in 1982 Ben Webster price.