George Gruntz Trio

b. 24 June 1932, Basel, Switzerland. Gruntz initial attracted attention on the 1958 Newport Jazz Event, where he made an appearance like a pianist using the Marshall Dark brown International Youth Music group (which also included Dusko Goykovich). In the first 60s he caused many leading American jazzmen, including Dexter Gordon; later on in the 10 years he was with Phil Woods within the second option’s European Tempo Machine. In 1970 Gruntz was appointed musical movie director from the Zurich Schauspielhaus, a post he kept until 1984, and from 1972 to 1994 he was creative director from the Berlin Jazz Event. In 1972 he co-founded a multi-national all-star big music group with Flavio Ambrosetti, Franco Ambrosetti and Daniel Humair, which he offers continued to business lead beneath the name from the George Gruntz Concert Jazz Music group, attracting a normal personnel of top quality music artists including Woods, Gordon, Woody Shaw, Lew Soloff, Ray Anderson, Eddie Daniels and the like. Gruntz in addition has experimented with organizations comprising multiple key pad devices (Piano Conclave), and used forward-thinking jazz performers such as for example Don Cherry and Rahsaan Roland Kirk. A lot more than most who’ve tried, Gruntz provides prevailed in crossing and recrossing the range between jazz as well as other musical forms. His compositions consist of symphonies, ballets and operas which stand alongside music created for many sizes of jazz groupings. He in addition has written film ratings along with a jazz oratorio, ‘The ULTIMATE GOAL Of Jazz And Pleasure’ (which shows up on the record Theater). His function always shows an inquiring and daring method of jazz and it has consistently selected to press against accepted limitations.