Stephan Diez (February 5, 2017 ) was a German jazz and fusion guitarist. Diez was born in Berlin, Germany and grew up in Berlin-Zehlendorf. He visited the summer jazz course in Remscheid in 1969, played in the Krautrock band Agitation Free in 1973 and also performed with Jazztrack. In 1974 he became a member of Harald Banters Mediaband. In 1975 and 1976 he played in the Chris Hinze Combination . In 1978 he founded his own formation Mirrors with Ack van Rooyen, Gary Todd, Todd Canedy, later Johannes Faber, Heiri Känzig and Lala Kovačev . He also played with Zbigniew Seifert in the band Variospheres. In the following years, he performed with various bands throughout Europe, including Dieter Reith, and worked as as a student, composer and arranger in Munich since 1980. From 1987 he accompanied Konstantin Wecker for three years and also went on tour with Mercedes Sosa and Joan Baez . Since 1990 he was a member of the NDR Bigband. At the same time, he was appointed as a professor of jazz guitar to the "Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg". He lived in Hamburg. In January 2016, Diez retired. He died on 5 February 2017 after a long illness. The guitarist Frank Diez is his older brother. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Stephan+Diez">Read more on Last.fm</a>. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.