As Joe Jackson’s touring guitar player since 2015, Teddy did Joe’s very successful “Fast Forward Tour” for 3 years. They recorded an album together in 2018 called ‘Fool’ and toured extensively as “The Four Decades Tour” for the better part of 2019.

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"Teddy Kumpel is the guitarist I always wanted to work with but could never find"

‘Joe Jackson’

photo by Bob Adamek

Teddy has also played live with

Rickie Lee Jones

Nine Inch Nails (as a background singer)

Anna F

Phil Lesh

Feist

Jun Kung

Marshall Crenshaw

Freddie Stevenson

James Maddock

Rare Silk

Chely Wright

Blow Up Hollywood

Martha Redbone Roots Project

Hugh Christopher Brown

Amy Helm

Teddy Thompson

Saul Zonana

Paquito D’Rivera

Emily Zuzik

Aaron Comess

Chris Barron

Eric Schenkman

Jonah Smith

Jim Keller

David Luther

Kelley Swindall

Rebecca Haviland

Eddy Lee Ryder

Abby Payne

Julia Haltigan

Karen Bella

Edan Archer

Scott Krokoff

Michael Blake and Blake Tartare

Toots Thielmans

Frankie Paul

Timothy “Speed” Levitch

The Supremes

photo by Manish Gosalia