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Alain's Tonejuice

Alain’s Tonejuice is my international band project consisting of six musicians from Switzerland and England. I encountered these musicians at different jazz workshops in France and Florian Weiss used to play in my Zurich based Quintet Footprints a few years ago. To kick the project off, I gathered the band to rehearse and record an album with my originals in Belgium, half-way between Zurich and London in a rural hideaway.

Tonejuice plays groove-centered music in a warm and dark mood. Deep ballads, bouncing rhythms, odd meters and modal harmony offer a tasty juice for brain, body and soul.

Alain Brenzikofer (CH) – tenor saxophone

Alain Brenzikofer discovered jazz at the International Music Camp in Canada in 1997 after having played the saxophone since the age of 10, mostly in a wind orchestra. Illinois Jacquet and Eddie Harris opend the door to jazz for him. In 1999 he studied at the Academy of Contemporary Music in Zurich but then chose to do a masters degree in electrical engineering at ETH Zurich. During 13 years he was member of the ETH Big Band and had the chance to go on tour in eastern Europe, China, India and Brazil. Apart from that he played for the Big Band of the Zurich Jazz School and in Horn Sections for Elijah, Lakeside, Royal Hangmen, Mike Sanchez or Stan or Itchy. A bandleader of various formations since 1999 (currently: Footprints), Alain had the chance to grow as an improvisor and composer. His musical language is characterized by body-moving, ethnical, often odd-metric rhythms and strong sounds. Alain’s formation continued with summer schools like Siena Jazz (3° livello with Paolino dalla Porta, Stefano Battaglia), Generations Frauenfeld (Lewis Nash, Adrian Mears, Peter Bernstein), Berklee Summer School (Dino Govoni, Oscar Stagnaro), Trinity College London (Julian Siegel, Simon Purcell, Gareth Lockrane)

Florian Weiss (CH) – trombone

Florian started his studies at “Hochschule der Künste Bern, Abteilung Jazz” in 2012. Among others, he studied with Bernhard Bamert, Bert Joris und Frank Sikora. For his MA in Jazz performance he moved to “Hochschule Luzern” where he gets tuition from Nils Wogram und Markus Wüest. Besides his own projects Woodoism and La Môme he can be heard on various stages in Switzerland and beyond. He worked with Julian Sartorius, Lucas Niggli, Andreas Tschopp, John Voirol, Opernhaus Zürich («Die Soldaten»), Mario Batkovic, Alain Brenzikofer’s Footprints and played at the Int. Jazzfestival Bern, Jazzfestival Schaffhausen, Moods im Schiffbau, Jazzfestival Wetzikon, BeJazz Bern, Bird’s Eye Basel. Florian got an excellence scolarship from the Hirschmann foundation during his Bachelor studies and another one from Friedl-Wald foundation.

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