Franz von Chossy Trio

Holland

2013.10.03 09:30 – 10：30pm

Venue: B10 Live, North District, OCT-LOFT

Artists:

Franz von Chossy – Piano

Clemens van der Feen – Bass

Paul Wiltgen – Drums

Franz von Chossy

Franz von Chossy was born in Munich, where he started playing the piano as a six-year-old. Through his mother he came to know classical music and his Ukrainian grandmother encouraged him to play folk music on the accordion. Von Chossy moved to the Netherlands to study at the conservatory of Amsterdam with Rob Madna, Karel Boehlee and Rob van Bavel in 1999. In 2003, he moved to New York to study at the Manhattan School of Music, where he was taught by Kenny Barron, Garry Dial, Dave Liebman, John Taylor and Kenny Werner, among others. In New York Franz also studied film composition with Edward Green. Franz leads a trio under his name with which he won the “Dutch Jazz Competition 2006″ because of his ‘original, dynamic and often virtuoso (inter)play’. Franz won the “Best Soloist” award during the same competition for his ‘subtle, spatial and personal play’. In 2009, he won 2nd prize in the international Montreux Jazz solo Piano Competition. He has released three CDs under his own name (“Awakening” 2006 – Challenge Records , “Pendulum” 2009 – Etcetera Records , “When the World Comes Home” 2012 – Jazzsick Records ) which have been praised by the press. Franz von Chossy has performed throughout Europe and the US as well as in Asia (India, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, China, Japan and South Korea), Africa (Tunisia, Marocco) and Australia. Besides leading his own Trio and Quintet he is highly valued for his ensemble-playing in bands like the Pascal Schumacher Quartet, Balkan polis, Africa and Fidan. Every once in a while he also gives concerts on church organ.

I Have a New Band Now

Germany

2013.10.03 08:00—09:00pm

Venue: B10 Live, North District, OCT-LOFT

Artists:

Klaus Bru——Saxophone

Martijn Vanbuel——Bass

Pietro Valente——Drums

 
I Have a New Band Now is a project of C-Melody saxophonist Klaus Bru from Germany. He brings togeth-er Belgian bassist Martijn Vanbuel and Italian drummer Pietro Valente to re-interpret his compositions in a trio format.I Have a New Band Now was founded in Taiwan, where each of the band’s members has been living for some time. The name ‘I Have A New Band Now’ is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the fact that musicians, in particular jazz musicians, usually play in a dozen bands at once.

Stylistically, this trio is not easy to pinpoint: There are elements of jazz, of course, and they are placed alongside rock inspired grooves, but there is also Balkan music, experimental circus tunes in odd meters, and spacious ballads with simple, singable melodies, even influences of classical music can be traced. The band members’ common lust for improvisation merges these diverse elements into one compact sound, and the trio format provides a lot of room between the notes:I Have a New Band Now explores this space in a free and adventurous way, the familiar and the unexpected stand side by side.

In short: The music of I Have a New Band Now is blending the borders between different music styles, it has an electric sound to it, it is fresh, intense, and passionate. Some people like to call it ‘jazz’, butI Have a New Band Now themselves would rather just call it ‘music’.