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Christian Weber

Christian Weber, currently living in Zürich, contributes his ideas and his wonderful instrument to many projects all over the world.

Regular appearances
with Day & Taxi, Sudden Infant, Günter Müller, Norbert Möslang, Die Welttraumforscher, Collegium Novum, Stefan Heckel Group, Gegenklang ...

Festival concerts
Druga Godba Ljubliana, Jazzfestival Zagreb, Jazz Meeting TelAviv, Jazz-Meeting Jerusalem, Jazzfest Wiesen, Jazz over Villach, Hörgänge Wien, Jazzfestival Schaffhausen, AMR Genf, Ice On Fire (Kuwait), Festival de Jazz Grenoble, Jazzfest Wien, unerhört!, Ulrichsberger Kaleidophon, Uncool Poschiavo, Wien Modern, Moers Festival, LEM Barcelona, Jazzherbst Konstanz, Taktlos...

Toured in
Switzerland, Austria, Germany, England, Ireland, Poland, Israel, China, Taiwan, Belgium, Italy, Slovenia, Kuwait, Croatia, Czech Republic, The Netherlands, Spain, Japan, Russia, USA

Has worked with
Peter Kowald, Irène Schweizer, Werner Lüdi, Charles Gayle, Robert Dick, Boris Hauf, Bertrand Denzler, Peter K Frey, Lol Coxhill, Olaf Rupp, Ludwig Bekic, Jacques Demierre, Franz Hautzinger, Gerhard Herrmann, Co Streiff, Elliott Sharp, Wolfgang Reisinger, Gene Coleman, Stephan Wittwer, Nils Wogram, Steamboat Switzerland, Phil Minton, Willem Schulz, Andres Bosshard, Ben Jeger, Tom Varner, Joachim Kühn, Wolfgang Puschnig, Julian Argüelles, Charlotte Hug, Jason Kahn, John Butcher, Roger Rotor, Antoine Chessex, Kai Fagaschinski, Dave Phillips, Otomo Yoshihide, Johannes Bauer, Simon Nabatov, Bo Wiget, Evan Parker ...

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Album Review

The Workers: Altbüron

Read "Altbüron" reviewed by John Eyles


Altbüron is the first album release from The Workers, a newly-formed quartet of experienced Swiss improvisers, each of whom had previously collaborated with at least one other member; the quartet comprises soprano saxophonist Urs Leimgruber (born 1952), alto saxophonist, flautist and voice Omri Ziegele (born 1959), bassist Christian Weber (born 1972) and drummer Alex Huber (born 1982), those dates illustrating the range of ages--and, hence, influences— within the group. This album was recorded live at bau 4 in Altbüron, in ...

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Aki Takase: Auge

Read "Auge" reviewed by John Sharpe


While it might be Aki Takase's name which grabs the attention thanks to her illustrious track record, the trio on Auge represents a true co-operative, as the Berlin-based Japanese pianist joins forces with Swiss bassist Christian Weber and German drummer Michael Griener in a perfectly balanced triumvirate. Takase draws on an ouevre which famously encompasses almost the entire history of jazz, stretching from projects reimagining Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, and Eric Dolphy all the way to freeform ...

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Aki Takase / Christian Weber / Michael Griener: Auge

Read "Auge" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Pianist Aki Takase had a hand in the creation of one of 2020's top jazz CDs: Slow Pieces For Aki (Intakt Records), by her husband and fellow pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach. She suggested a set less involved in the speed, volume and intensity that was Schlippenvach's customary avant-garde approach. He answered with a twenty-one tune recording of ever-shifting beauty and down tempo restraint. Takase--with partners Christian Weber, on bass, and Michael Griener playing drums--opens 2021 with an answer ...

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Omri Ziegele Tomorrow Trio: All Those Yesterdays

Read "All Those Yesterdays" reviewed by Mark Corroto


It's been more than twenty years since the world lost saxophonist Thomas Chapin. If you were to conduct a search like Tibetan Buddhists looking for the next incarnation of the Dalai Lama, the signs and symbols you would sift through are of course recordings. All Those Yesterdays may be all the proof one needs to adjudge Omri Ziegele the incarnation of Thomas Chapin. His music has the same joy and zestfulness, and it has been hiding in plain sight for ...

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Christian Weber: 3 Suits & a Violin

Read "3 Suits & a Violin" reviewed by Derek Taylor


One of the unwritten idiomatic tenets of a lot of electro-acoustic improv is the sublimation of the individual for the collective cause. In the process, the sounds of itemized and identifiable instruments are often replaced with more implicit textures and shapes. Bassist Christian Weber is adept at this strategy having worked with some of the leading luminaries of amplification-inclusive abstract improvisation like Günter Müller and Norbert Möslang. He's also versed in more jazz-grounded improvisation as evidenced by recent projects with ...

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Christian Weber: 3 Suits & A Violin

Read "3 Suits & A Violin" reviewed by Nic Jones


In his accompanying notes for 3 Suits & A Violin, Dean M. Roberts quite rightly refers to the fact that this music eschews formulaic approaches. It's equally true to say that another of its key elements is the sublimation of individual instrumental identity. For example Hans Koch's saxophones are at one and the same time not only conspicuous in the absence of their conventional sounds, but also arguably intrinsic to the realisation of Weber's ideas.

This all makes for music ...

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Recording

Oliver Lake with Christian Weber and Dieter Ulrich - For a Little Dancin' (Intakt, 2010)

Oliver Lake with Christian Weber and Dieter Ulrich - For a Little Dancin' (Intakt, 2010)

Source: Music and More by Tim Niland

Alto saxophonist Oliver Lake has been getting some much deserved recognition of late, performing with Orrin Evans' far-reaching Tarbaby ensemble at recent jazz festivals, recording albums for his own Passin' Thru label and cutting this lean and exciting trio set in the company of Christian Weber on bass and Dieter Ulrich on drums. The music recalls Lake's work with the collective group Trio3 that also features Andrew Cryille and Reggie Workman, with strong and free rhythm work setting the stage ...

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Christian Weber : 3 Suits & A Violin on hatOLOGY 634

Christian Weber : 3 Suits & A Violin on hatOLOGY 634

Source: All About Jazz

Christian Weber's electro-acoustic improvisation ensembles with Hans Koch, Michael Moser, Martin Siewert & Christian Wolfarth. (Michael Moser and Martin Siewert are members of Polwechsel.)

What Christian Weber and Co. have achieved on 3 Suits & A Violin is a music that eschews formulaic approaches and instead tempers their group sound in dense laminations of texture and sonic residue.

The result is an arresting music which combines elements of group-improvised minimalism, electro-acoustic improvisation and avant-garde chamber music into a texturally rich ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Auge

Intakt Records
2021

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All Those Yesterdays

Intakt Records
2020

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Altbüron

Wide Ear Records
2020

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Nachtfahrten

ACT Music
2015

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3 Suits & A Violin

Hat Hut Records
2007

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Harmonix

ATS Records
1998

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