Cutting his teeth on Beatles, show tunes and ‘60s AM radio, Bob Windbiel first formed a blues duo with childhood pal Ralph Robbins when he was twelve years old. His high school band EDGE played rock n’ roll, blues and jazz-rock fusion in the early-mid ‘70s. With the electric-avant-jazz group OUTLET he recorded three albums one of which was released on the legendary alternative jazz label ESP-Disk. He led and composed most of the material for two indie-rock bands from the mid-‘80s through the early ‘90s: Mod Lang and Marcel Monroe. 

Bob’s hybrid, concert instrumental and vocal music has been performed by Jed Distler and Jenny Lin, just to name a few. And locally, Bob played guitar in the pit band for Inwood’s Pied Piper Children’s Theater for several productions while his children Bix and Genevieve were on stage.  

After graduating from Lehman College, he became the electric guitar teacher at the school and formed the Lehman Guitar Ensemble, for which he arranges music ranging from classical to jazz to blues to pop to rock ’n roll.  In addition, he continues to record and occasionally perform professionally with both EDGE and OUTLET.