Paul Tingen

Who is Paul Tingen?

Paul Tingen is a Dutch-born author, guitarist, music producer and music journalist, who works predominantly in the English language. Tingen is best known for his book about the electric music of Miles Davis, Miles Beyond: The Electric Explorations of Miles Davis, 1967–1991, which was published by Watson-Guptill in 2001.

Tingen studied guitar and recording at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague and completed a music degree at Goldsmiths' College in London. He is a member of the Order of Interbeing, the core order of Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, and has facilitated meditation classes in this tradition—in 1996 he founded the Heart of London Sangha, which has become one of the UK's largest self-run meditation groups. After having lived in the UK and the US during 1986-2005, Tingen currently divides his time between the UK and the south-west of France, where he lives with his partner and their two children, and where he regularly performs.