location: Cologne, germany beatmaker/jazztrumpeter/pianist/bassist/analog moog some of my 2024 news: collabs with Jost Esser Saiko skrn Tomh. Shimon Hoshino Osteoleuco releases with This is urbanundergrounds @ Mutombo Records - Label Releases and more influenced by Roy Hargrove Robert Glasper Erykah Badu Pino Palladino favorite song ever Cheek To Cheek favorite albums Voodoo Ella and Louis bio. The first record Tobi aka the flipside bought was the Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five. While his love of jazz continued to grow, he also began to appreciate Hip-Hop, Funk and Soul through the influence of early bandmembers. Having played the guitar for several years, the younger Tobi picked up the trumpet at the age of 13, taking everlasting inspiration from Miles Davis , Chet Baker and Tomasz Stańko . Shortly after he taught himself piano and bass. While attending Hochschule für Musik Mainz as jazz trumpeter and pianist, the music program which also brought out victor fox, Grégoire Pignède , halfpastseven , Eddy Sonnenschein and which is led by Chaka Khan MD Jesse Milliner, Tobi got his trumpet sound perfected with his prof Axel Schlosser. Tobi shortly after moved to Cologne with its vivid music and music production scene, where he started to closely collaborate with Jost Esser .