NoTango …

… is saxophonist/composer Christina Fuchs‘ quartet. It is one of the more unusual ensembles in the Cologne jazz scene. This band proves that innovative jazz can be delicate, humorous, and lyrical. Their combination of jazz, ethnic music and modern compositions fascinates from the first beat. NoTango is hard to classify, but easy to understand …

… just by LISTENING.

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CHRISTINA FUCHS
SOPRANO AND TENOR SAX, BASS CLARINET

FLORIAN STADLER – ACCORDION

ULLA OSTER – DOUBLE BASS

CHRISTOPH HILLMANN – DRUMS

MP3-Soundfiles of the Debut-CD ’CHRISTINA FUCHS / NO TANGO’:

NoTango

During the past 20 years saxophonist Christina Fuchs has developed an instantly recognizable sound and a unique language as a composer. Her large-ensemble work is most frequently performed by the United Women's Orchestra, which she leads with Hazel Leach. She has also conducted performances by the NDR Radio Big Band, which has commissioned her compositions. Other large groups, such as the Blue Art Orchestra, also play her work from time to time.

Fuchs' primary small ensembles include a quartet and a duo. The Christina Fuchs Quartet just released its first CD "NoTango". Her long-standing duo KontraSax (with contrabassist Romy Herzberg), is her most intimate forum for musical communication. This duo has released three CDs, has scored several documentary films, and has worked in innumerable settings over the past decade and a half.
Fuchs' work includes traditional concerts as well as collaborations with other art forms, such as dance, visual arts, literature, spoken word, movies, and theatre. What is common to all of these settings, is Fuchs' emphasis on blending written and improvised music.

Her originality has been felt in just about every corner of the German jazz scene, including concerts, radio broadcasts and TV productions. Fuchs has received awards and scholarships at …

… Künstlerhaus Ahrenshoop / Germany 2007,
… NDR Radio Big Band commission / Germany 2005,
… Nairs/Art in Engadina Bassa / Switzerland 2004,
… Art Omi Music Program NY 2003,
… Julius Hemphill Composition Awards
for Large Ensemble / USA 2002,
… Jazz a r t - New Music in the 21st century:
composition award NRW / Germany 2001,
… BMI composers program NYC with Jim McNeely
& Michael Abene 1999/2000,
… Banff Centre of the Arts / Canada 1997/98.

and furthermore:

NO TANGO & STRINGS

... is Christina Fuchs’ No Tango Quartet plus the kaj:kaj string quartet. This project premiered at the 'Traumzeit' Festival Duisburg in 2008. Adding strings expands the sound palette of the ensemble, which retains its focus on the borders between improvisation and composition.

MP3-Soundfiles: ’No Tango & Strings’

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