An insight into the history of the blues gave us jazzguitarist Thomas Brendgens-Mönkemeyer. "How everything began…" from the times of the early country-blues in America up to harmonically advanced new original compositions, Neue Musik Zeitung

Almost no other guitar player in Germany lets his soft notes sing and float as beautiful as Thomas Brendgens-Mönkemeyer. To listen to him is an asthetic sound enjoyment. This he also proves on his new solo CD "BEAUTY", where he changes between jazz and blues on the highest possible musical level. Höxter

Thomas Brendgens-Mönkemeyers’s jazzinterpretations to a great extent are surprising and individual, his playing styles of extraordinary raffinement. ...a program that is seldom heard!
Dortmund

Thomas Brendgens-Mönkemeyer plays masterful guitar: easy to listen to and stylish were his Improvisations. His accompaniments often offered counterpoint and so two melodies came together as a piece of art.
Holzminden

...on a high international level they built up ( Thomas Brendgens-Mönkemeyer und Jochen Voss) a refreshing enlargement of the sligthly worn-out idea of duo in jazz.
Ingolstadt

..the results, mostly original compositions sound modern, sometimes dissonant, often there is a lyrical athmosphere. Polished simplifications and attitudes do not appear!
Lüneburg

...Thomas Brendgens-Mönkemeyers almost pianistic technique and inventive depth enabled him to express dreamy or agressive moods without sentimetality (Kitsch).
Neuburg, Donau