Torsten Goods
Jazz guitarist, singer, and composer Torsten Goods was born Torsten Gutknecht in
Dusseldorf, Germany on October 25, 1980. Influenced by iconic artists such as
George Benson, Wes Montgomery, Stevie Wonder, Django Reinhardt, Freddie Mercury,
and Kenny Loggins, Torsten Goods began his musical career when he was 14 but
didn’t discover jazz until he was 17. In 1999 and 2000, he attended his first
workshops in New York City, New York, studying under Jim Hall and John Scofield.
Torsten Gutknecht became a member of the Federal Jazz Orchestra – a Bonn,
Germany-based national youth jazz or...
