Doors 7:45 PM, Music 8:30 PM
Line-up:
Christoph Irniger – Tenor Saxophone
Ben van Gelder – Alto Saxophone
Raffaele Bossard – Bass
Ziv Ravitz – Drums
About
The Christoph Irniger Trio celebrates melody without once degenerating into the trivial. They are tone poems which demonstrate that accessible melodies and complex tonal worlds need not be mutually exclusive and can in fact make sense of each other. Irniger is a master of orchestration and rejects the hierarchy of soloist-plus-rhythm. Instead of using the compositions as springboards for solos, he finds interesting ways for the improvisations to underline the compositional characteristics. Melody, arrangement, improvisation: the trio fuse them all into one tightly integrated and alluring package,’ writes American jazz critic Kevin Whitehead.
In the current setting the band plays as quartet with Ben van Gelder – who is regarded internationally as an authority on the alto saxophone and played with David Binney, Mark Turner and Ambrose Akinmusire amongst others – and presents together the album “Open City” which was released in September 2020 on Intakt Records.