Comments on Christoph Grab Quartet concerts

„The absolute highlight of this years’s edition of the Richterswil Jazz Festival was sax player Christoph Grab and his quartet: they made the concert hall vibrate with that urbane, straight-forward and sometimes even explosive sound of theirs.“
Zürichsee-Zeitung, November 1st, 2004
(about a gig in the Rosengartensaal Richterswil)

„... a concert of superlatives.“ Zugerbieter, October 14th, 2004
(about a gig in the Spinnihalle Baar)

Reviews on their latest CD release 'personal'

„Among young Swiss sax players Christoph Grab undoubtedly produces the most perfect sound of them all. [...] His basically simple compositions become wonderful fairy tales, very dense, very well told.“
Frank von Niederhäusern, Radiomagazin, October 14th, 2004

„... an enchanting pleasure for the mind as well.“
Peter Rüedi, Weltwoche, October 28th, 2004

" CD of the year 2004! "
Gino Ferlin, JAZZ'N'MORE, jan.'05

„For a long time now the 37 year-old Zurich sax player Christoph Grab has counted among the most independent and most interesting instrumentalists on the musical scene. [...] The title of this album is “personal”, it is a statement of strength of a musician at the height of his art.“
Beat Blaser, Aargauer Zeitung, October 2004

„The way these eight compositions are put together on the album makes it an art form of its own. Like in drama, a carefully constructed sequence of contrasts and changes do not fail to have their impact on the listener. Grab’s attentive and very concentrated partners form the wings which enable this most expressive soloist to fly away, quite miraculously and very elegantly, into the self-made, densly populated universe of his music.“
Nick Liebmann, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, October 12th, 2004

“It is not only the full and warm sound which is typical of Christoph Grab, but also the way he commands over a wide range of improvisational means – he is familiar with the straight-forwardness of the blues as well as with the daredevil abstract linearity of Warne Marsh and Lee Konitz.”
Tom Gsteiger, Zuger Presse, October 6th, 2004

„Without exception, the members of this quartet are/have such strong musical personalities – this shows in their dedication to a style of extreme openness; with brilliant virtuosity and a lot of groove they approach the limits of what is possible inside tonality and rhythm. Even when Grab goes into improvisational extasy on his tenor sax, his lines and phrases never lose their smoothness ... very good jazz.“
Jazz’n’More, November 2004