When tuba, trombone and double bass sound out low frequencies, when flute, piano and bass clarinet weave tightly woven carpets and when drums and violin delicately contour, then Maximilian Kreuzer's compositional pen is not far away.
If it was once Gil Evans who led the music of Miles Davis into new spheres, and if it was a certain Charles Mingus who showed the jazz world where the bartel gets the cider from, the young Styrian double bass player and arranger places himself in this tradition and continues it.
Thus, the jazz of the 50s is spiced with a pinch of chamber music, pop music is refined with free improvisation, and minimal music is tastefully enriched with modern-open and not infrequently world-music jazz currents. The concrete is lined up with the abstract, bebop classics with original compositions, improvisation with composition.
The icing on the cake: eight musical friends who make the octet what it is: unity in diversity - musically as well as humanly.
Maximilian Kreuzer - double bass, composition & arrangement
Jonathan Herrgesell - saxophone, flute
Albin Krieger - violin
Anna Gollien - bass clarinet
Simon Kintopp - trombone
Florian Wiedner - tuba & contrabass trombone
Lukas Meissl - piano
Andreas Reisenhofer - percussion
Date and time
Event location
Leibnitz - Marenzikeller, Bahnhofstrasse 14, 8430 Leibnitz