Urs Leimgruber

Swiss-born saxophonist (he plays practically all of these) Urs Leimgruber is definitely a fixture around the European songs, jazz, and free of charge improvisation scenes. Leimgruber offers formal trained in both traditional music and jazz, and started his tenure as an associate of the electrical, free of charge improv jazz group Om in the 1970s with drummer Fredy Studer, Christy Doran, and Bobby Burri; he later on moved to NY with Burri to create and record making use of their Refelexionen Quartet which, ironically plenty of, documented their finest occasions in the Montreux Jazz Event in 1987. Leimgruber careens with the free of charge jazz and songs and improv boroughs with startling simplicity; his longer association with drummer and percussionist Fritz Hauser provides have huge variations from improvised duets to executing with pianist Irène Schweizer and Steve Lacy. Probably the most satisfying and also revelatory groupings that he and Hauser have already been involved in, nevertheless, are two trios with bassist extraordinaire Joëlle Léandre and another with pianist Marilyn Crispell. Furthermore to these groupings, Leimgruber in addition has been a highlighted visitor on recordings by Louis Sclavis, Hans Koch, Pauline Oliveros, Tim Berne, Joe McPhee, and Trilok Gurtu, merely to name several. Leimgruber provides issued several single saxophone recordings aswell, which are, just as Anthony Braxton’s had been in the past due ’60s and early ’70s, groundbreaking, psychologically expressive, and critically excellent. Since 1988, Leimgruber provides resided in Paris, a location he uses being a pivot stage for his many efforts. Within the ’90s and 2000s, he provides fronted the LSM Trio with François Moutin and Patrick Scheyder, and made an appearance in performances from the functions of composers Maria De Alvear, Mani Planzer, and Edu Haubensak. His touring throughout Traditional western Europe, america, SOUTH USA, and Canada can be near constant; in some way he finds enough time to instruct theory classes and work improvisation workshops at several universities all over the world.