GRANT STEWART QUARTET FEAT. MARTIN SASSE

In the organizer's words:

SA 25.04.26 | Admission 19:00 | Start 20:30

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE JAZZ INTERNATIONAL (US/DE/AT)

GRANT STEWART QUARTET FEAT. MARTIN SASSE

"Jazz from New York"

Grant Stewart is one of the most dynamic interpreters of the bebop tradition in the USA and beyond, with perfect technique and a full, warm tone. He has been consistently listed as one of the "rising stars on the tenorsax" by the leading US jazz magazine Down Beat for years. His CD "Live at Smalls" received the German Record Critics' Award in 2013.

He also received special praise for his recordings of Duke Ellington classics and for the two CDs with his saxophone colleague Eric Alexander.

Another disc from Stewart's extensive catalog was voted into the top ten by "All About Jazz New York" in 2008.

Grant Stewart meets three outstanding European colleagues in this quartet: Martin Sasse from Cologne is one of Europe's leading pianists and has worked with soloists such as Al Foster, the New York Voices, Jimmy Cobb, Steve Grossman, Peter Bernstein, Till Brönner, Dennis Mackrel, Philip Catherine, Dusko Goykovich, Scott Hamilton, and many more. Bassist Kenji Rabson comes from Boston, lived for many years in New York and now in Stockholm and is one of the most booked sidemen in Europe. The Austrian percussionist Bernd Reiter, winner of the
at the Hans Koller Prize in 2006 and now lives in New York for a time, has also played with many jazz greats such as Don Menza, Charles Davis, Harold Mabern, Cyrus Chestnut, Kirk Lightsey, Mundell Lowe, Steve Grossman, Claudio Roditi and many more.

This quartet offers thrillingly energetic and swinging music at the very highest level, performed with professionalism and enthusiasm in equal measure, simply "Jazz at its Best"!!!

With:

Grant Stewart (CA/US) - tenorsax

Martin Sasse (DE) - piano

Kenji Rabson (US) - bass

Bernd Reiter (AT) - drums