Teddy Kumpel

Recording / touring credits Own projects Links Teddy Kumpel, from Port Jefferson, NY, USA, plays in Joe's Fast Forward touring band. Teddy has played live with Nine Inch Nails, Rickie Lee Jones, Marshall Crenshaw, Feist and many others. Teddy is also a working session musician and as such has played on many movies including 'Temple Grandin', 'Anchorman', 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind' and 'Taladega Nights.' Teddy's group, the LOOPestra, is an experiment that combines free improvisation, live looping and song writing. "It's funky and fun and full of surprises."   Exclusive interview with the JJ Archive Teddy talks about starting on the ukulele, securing the gig with Joe and working with him on the arrangements, plus ‘guitar nights’ in New York City. Read the full interview

Year	Artist	Album or tour	Instrument etc.
2022	Joe Jackson	'Sing, You Sinners!' tour	guitar, vocals
2021	Nome Sane?	Time Will Shine	guitar, kazoo, composer, mixing, producer
2019	Joe Jackson	'Fool' tour	guitar, vocals
2019	Joe Jackson	Fool	guitar, vocals
2016	Aaron Comess	Live 2016	guitar
2015/18	Joe Jackson	'Fast Forward' tour	guitar, vocals
2015	Teddy Kumpel	LOOPestra Volume One	guitar, vocals
2014	Aaron Comess	Blues For Use	guitar
2013	Blow Up Hollywood	Blue Sky Blond	guitar
2011	Aaron Comess	Beautiful Mistake	guitar
2011	Saul Zonana	It's Alive	guitar
2010	Alex Wurman	Temple Grandin – film soundtrack	guitar
2009	Alex Wurman	$5 A Day – film soundtrack	guitar
2008	Saul Zonana	Blue Monkey	guitar
2008	Alex Wurman	The Promotion – film soundtrack	guitar
2007	Alex Wurman	Run Fatboy Run – film soundtrack	guitar
2006	various artists	My Old Man: A Tribute To Steve Goodman	guitar and vocals on 'Watching Joey Glow'
2006	Michael Blake	More Like Us	guitar, mixing
2006	Alex Wurman	Talladega Nights – film soundtrack	guitar
2005	Teddybut	The Man	guitar, vocals
2004	Alex Wurman	Anchorman – film soundtrack	guitar
2003	Alex Wurman	Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind – film soundtrack	guitar, bass, engineering
2000	Teddybut	Songs In Tomato Sauce	guitar, vocals, composer, mixing, producer, programming
1999	Graham Hawthorne	Mbalafunk	guitar
1998	Goodie Mob	Still Standing	guitar
1998	Michelle Lewis	Little Leviathan	guitar, writer, additional production
1994	Nome Sane?	Nome Sane?	guitar, vocals, composer, mixing, producer, programming

A full discography can be found here on Teddy's website

Nome Sane?
TIME WILL SHINE

2021 US download

Mask / Porridge Storage / Miss Dancing / Fudgie / Pimiento Ano / Santa / Cringesome / Doozy / Plastic Smile / Time Will Shine / Pyonkle / Pandora's Boxers

Teddy Kumpel
LOOPESTRA VOLUME ONE

2015 US CD

Keep Pretending / Differences / My Own Kind / Nu Suit / Pushy / Postal Worker

Teddybut
THE MAN

2005 US CD Kumpelstiltskin Music

The Man / On The Other Side / Remember The Alimony / I'd Grow A Moustache For You / You Say I Don't Like Girls / My Depressing Music / We've Got Chemistry / I'm It, For Now / My Country / You'll Have To Clone Me / The Exotic Isle Of Long / Time Is A Magazine

Teddybut
SONGS IN TOMATO SAUCE

2000 US CD Kumpelstiltskin Music

Happy Ending / We Gotta Break Up / Beach Bum / Mommy's Got A Bipolar Disorder / Friendly / Get Out Of My Way / If You Could Be Atlas / I Can See Your Ghost / We're Too Loud / Sam Ash Saturday / Methane / My Stories / She Keeps Moving / New Suit/String Bass

Nome Sane?
NOME SANE?

1994 US CD Hooney Records

I'm On A Mission / My Tour Guide Is A Mole / Hooney Head / NY Ditty/Dark Circles / Big Poochee / Nana And Poppop / Bolt Neck Slam / Indikafize! / Craildogger / No Blue Notes

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