christoph grab’s CRYPTIC BLUES is:
- christoph grab ts/as
- nils wogram tb/axel doerner tp
- flo stoffner git
- christoph sprenger b
- dieter ulrich dr
KOJ & Louis Sclavis is:
- christoph grab ts/as/melodica
- louis sclavis cl/bcl
- christian straessle viol
- thise gloor p
- silvan jeger b
NEUROMODULATOR is:
- christoph grab ts/ hacked toys
- eric hunziker git/stomp boxes
- ephrem luechinger synth/laptop
- marius peyer dr/filters
christoph grab’s SCIENCE FICTION THEATER is:
- christoph grab saxes/melodica/samples
- flo stoffner git
- christian rösli keyboards
- flo goette bass
- tobias schramm drums
SONNY SIDE UP - a tribute to sonny rollins is:
- christoph grab ts
- alessandro d'episcopo p
- haemi haemmerli bass
- elmar frey drums
Influences
ornette coleman, eddie lockjaw davis, archie shepp, sonny rollins, warne marsh, john coltrane, charles mingus, booker little,
arnold schoenberg, igor stravinski, bela bartok, john cage, pierre schaeffer,
aphex twin, autechre, björk, oum kalthoum
lives in zurich/switzerland. he works/tours as a musician and is regular lecturer on saxophone and improvisation at the zurich university of arts.
he studied with andy scherrer, sal nistico, jerry bergonzi, joe lovano, and dave liebman. while being an active member of both the swiss jazz and the live-electronic scene, he played with ray anderson, wolfgang muthspiel, irene schweizer, joe beck, mark egan, danny gottlieb, louis sclavis, frank moebus, axel doerner, burhan oecal, harald haerter etc.
as a composer and leader/coleader he performs with CRYPTIC BLUES, KOJ and NEUROMODULATOR. in addition he plays in some working bands (e.g. zurich jazz orchestra, elmar frei sextett, contemparabic jazz ensemble, beestreet, lukas bitterlin quartett) and works as a freelance musician.
the last couple of years, besides developing as a saxophonist, he is doing a lot of research on creating soundmachines out of hacked toys. he uses them live in his electronic projects.
- „Among young Swiss sax players Christoph Grab undoubtedly produces the most perfect sound of them all. [...] His basically simple compositions become wonderful fairy tales, very dense, very well told.“ Frank von Niederhäusern, Radiomagazin, October 14th, 2004
- „Christoph Grab is among the most innovative and distinguished jazzmusicians of the swiss scene.“ BRIGITTE, Feb.2006
- „Christoph Grab ist an adventurous soloist, on tenor as well as on alto,... plays like a gentle Coltrane.“ Mike Hennessey, JAZZ Feb.2000
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