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Take the MOL Train: VEIN feat. Greg Osby (CH/USA) at Opus Jazz Club

Courtesy of BMC - Opus Jazz Club | Posted on September 30, 2015

Where

Opus Jazz Club
Mátyás Street 8.
Budapest
Map
+36 1 216 7894

When

Fri, October 30, 2015
21:00

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Musicians

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Featuring:

Michael Arbenz - piano
Thomas Lähns - bass
Florian Arbenz - drums

Greg Osby - saxophone

Since VEIN was founded, the trio has regularly joined forces with guest musicians in horizon-expanding and ground breaking projects. This is also true for their recent, exciting and unconventional quartet with Greg Osby, the great saxophonist with whom they have been performing since many years. Just as the trio has created an almost symbiotic interplay – by bringing together its background, its stupendous musical togetherness and its concept of maximum equality for all members – it never failed to find an incredibly inspiring addition in Greg Osby. Osby, with his distinctive and modern style that is always respectful of tradition, is one of the most important saxophonists of today’s jazz scene. He masterfully moves through the groove-heavy, lyrical, rhythmically and harmonically complex and open pieces and passages of the quartet’s repertoire, which mainly consists of their own compositions. To his younger fellow musicians, Greg Osby is also the embodiment of a piece of jazz history; since the 80s, Osby has been performing with all the jazz greats and that is precisely what he incorporates in his style and what has become a fundamental aspect for VEIN: the spirit of this music. ...

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