Urs Leimgruber
Swiss-born saxophonist (he plays virtually all of them) Urs Leimgruber has long been a fixture on the European new music, jazz, and free improvisation scenes. Leimgruber has formal training in both classical music and jazz, and began his tenure as a member of the electric, free improv jazz group Om in the 1970s with drummer Fredy Studer, Christy Doran, and Bobby Burri; he later moved to New York with Burri to form and record with their Refelexionen Quartet which, ironically enough, recorded their finest moments at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1987. Leimgruber careens through the free jazz and new music and improv boroughs with startling ease; his long association with drummer and percussionist Fritz Hauser has run the gamut from improvised duets to performing with pianist Irène Schweizer and Steve Lacy. The most satisfying and even revelatory groups that he and Hauser have been involved in, however, are two trios with bassist extraordinaire Joëlle Léandre and another with pianist Marilyn Crispell. In addition to these groups, Leimgruber has also been a featured guest on recordings by Louis Sclavis, Hans Koch, Pauline Oliveros, Tim Berne, Joe McPhee, and Trilok Gurtu, just to name a few. Leimgruber has issued a number of solo saxophone recordings as well, which are, in the same way Anthony Braxton's were in the late '60s and early '70s, groundbreaking, emotionally expressive, and critically brilliant. Since 1988, Leimgruber has lived in Paris, a place he uses as a pivot point for his many endeavors. In the '90s and 2000s, he has fronted the LSM Trio with François Moutin and Patrick Scheyder, and appeared in performances of the works of composers Maria De Alvear, Mani Planzer, and Edu Haubensak. His touring throughout Western Europe, the United States, South America, and Canada is near constant; somehow he finds the time to teach theory courses and run improvisation workshops at a number of universities around the world.
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Last Concert in Europe at the Space Lucerne (Live, Lucerne, 2021)
Urs Leimgruber, Barre Phillips, Jacques Demierre
Jazz - Lançado por Jazzwerkstatt em 30 de set. de 2022
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No Try No Fail
Urs Leimgruber, Joëlle Léandre, Fritz Hauser
Free Jazz & Avant-Garde - Lançado por hatOLOGY em 1 de jan. de 1997
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Lines
Urs Leimgruber, Adelhard Roidinger, Fritz Hauser
Free Jazz & Avant-Garde - Lançado por hat ART CD em 1 de jan. de 1994
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Quartet Noir
Urs Leimgruber, Marilyn Crispell, Joëlle Léandre, Fritz Hauser
Classical - Lançado por Les Disques VICTO em 1 de jan. de 1998
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L'énigmatique
Free Jazz & Avant-Garde - Lançado por hat ART CD em 25 de jan. de 2015
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Montreuil
Urs Leimgruber, Barre Phillips, Jacques Demierre
Jazz - Lançado por Jazzwerkstatt em 1 de out. de 2012
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Wing Vane
Urs Leimgruber, Jacques Demierre, Barre Phillips
Classical - Lançado por Les Disques VICTO em 1 de jan. de 2001
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Polyphyllum
Urs Leimgruber, John Wolf Brennan
Jazz - Lançado por L+R Records em 19 de jul. de 1989
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Urs Leimgruber, Barre Phillips, Jacques Demierre
Contemporary Jazz - Lançado por Jazzwerkstatt em 28 de abr. de 2015
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Altbüron
Urs Leimgruber, Omri Ziegele, Christian Weber, Alex Huber, The Workers
Pop/Rock - Lançado por Wide Ear Records em 14 de dez. de 2022
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Lugano
Urs Leimgruber, Marilyn Crispell, Joëlle Léandre, Fritz Hauser
Classical - Lançado por Les Disques VICTO em 1 de jan. de 2005
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Albeit - Montreuil - 1-3-2:-1 (feat. Jacques Demierre, Barre Phillips)
Jazz - Lançado por Jazzwerkstatt em 11 de set. de 2015
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Ungleich
Free Jazz & Avant-Garde - Lançado por hat ART CD em 11 de abr. de 1994
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Reflexionen
Urs Leimgruber, Don Friedman, Bobby Burri
Jazz - Lançado por Timeless Records em 22 de dez. de 2021
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Willisau (Live at the Jazz Festival Willisau, Switzerland, 2017)
Jazz - Lançado por Jazzwerkstatt em 19 de abr. de 2019
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Pale White Shout
Jazz - Lançado por Jazzwerkstatt em 3 de jun. de 2016
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Statement of an Antirider
Free Jazz & Avant-Garde - Lançado por hat ART CD em 11 de abr. de 1994
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The Pancake Tour
Alternative & Indie - Lançado por Relative Pitch Records em 25 de out. de 2013
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13 Pieces for Saxophone
Jazz - Lançado por LEO RECORDS em 1 de set. de 2016
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Chicago Solo
Jazz - Lançado por LEO RECORDS em 1 de mai. de 2010
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