Zed Mitchell

ZED MITCHELL, Blues, Rock, Soul from Essen, Germany www.zedmitchell.com : Bandleader, singer, guitarist and composer Zed Mitchell, from Belgrad, began his career as professional musician in 1970. In that time he played with many well know bands in Yugoslavia.
In 1974 with his own band LAND, he had his first international hit-single called SHOSHANA for POLYDOR Europe. After this big success and many radio sessions as well as TV, he played as support group on tours for bands such as FOCUS, DEEP PURPLE, IAN GILLAN BAND and many more. He played concerts all around Europe.
At the end of the seventys, he founded the School for Rock Guitar in Belgrad.

From 1988 he worked in ARCO - STUDIOS in Munich, with producers Malcolm Luker and film composer Nick Glennie-Smith right hand of Hans Zimmer whos become two Oscars. He made projects with Tina Turner, Phil Collins, Pink Floyd etc. Zed Mitchell worked in that time as studio musician and he played guitar for Eros Ramazotti (La musica e), Natalie Cole, also with German stars and producer: Curt Cress, Udo Lindenberg and Leslie Mandoki.
One of the biggest success Zed celebrated, was working with MSSO (Munich Symphonic Sound Orchestra). He played all acoustic and electric guitars. This CD is sold more than one million copies (POLYDOR, POLYSTAR) !!!.

He worked with world know composer Elmar Bernstein and played guitars for the BLOCKBUSTER INDIANA JONES . His knowledge makes him very wanted artist under other Artists and Producers on the pulse of the music scene in Germany. Musicans and people from the music business assert, while he is simply one of the best in Europe.

With his band he played as support group with big stars such Joe Cocker (1993), Santana (1993) and B.B. King (on his last tour in Germany 2006).

With his album Springtime in Paris which he recorded with many of his musical friends of the blues and rock-scene in Germany (Blues company, Klaus Mojo Kilian, Rolf-Dieter Schnapka, Greg Mc Coy, James Simpson, Billy Allen), the singer and guitarist presents his variety, that causes a wave of excitement. Through his 13 tracks Zed Mitchell plays bluesrock in all his musical style. At the same time the musican masters all styles of his genre perfectly.

His Blues comes deep out of his soul and you can feel it with every tone. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.