Christoph Grab Reflections / Saxonauts

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Christoph Grab sax, Lukas Thoeni tp, Andreas Tschopp tb, Bänz Oester bs, Pius Baschnagel dr

The Swiss Jazz Award 2023 winner Christoph Grab presents his latest work with his excellent REFLECTIONS ensemble: "Oneness". The basis for the music are compositions by Thelonious Monk, to which Christoph Grab gives his own twist through his arrangements to inspire the band and lead them out of the familiar. They serve as a basis and springboard for the collective improvisations and the daily reinvention of music at the concerts. "Oneness" has become a lively, inspired album and shows that new and unheard-of things can also be created on the basis of iconic material from jazz history.

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The saxonauts are eight saxophones, a bass and a piano. The Saxonauts have their origin on the planet MSC (Chur Music School). They like to move in swinging, rocking and poppy spheres, but are up for almost anything. They are connected by a long-standing friendship that has led them on many missions, according to the motto: We take off, nothing keeps us on the ground!