Diederik Wissels

Dutch jazz pianist

Diederik Wissels (born December 1960, in Rotterdam, Netherlands) is a Dutch jazz pianist.^[1]

In 1968, he moved to Brussels, Belgium and later attended Boston's Berklee College of Music. In his early career, he played with Chet Baker, Joe Henderson and Toots Thielemans.^[2] Wissels' solo and duo recordings include "The Hillock Songstress" (1994), "From This Day Forward" (1997), "Streams" with Bart Defoort (2001), "Song of You" (2004), "Pasarela" (2017) and "Secrecy" (2020 - with Portuguese singer Ana Rocha). He appears regularly and has also recorded with David Linx, for example on Viktor Lazlo's album Amour(s).

References

^ Henceval, Emile (1991). Dictionnaire du jazz à Bruxelles et en Wallonie (in French). Editions Mardaga. ISBN 978-2-87009-468-6.
^ "Le MAD donne carte blanche au jazzman Diederik Wissels". Le Soir Plus (in French). 2020-03-24. Retrieved 2020-07-28.