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Claus Raible
Jazz pianist, composer & arranger
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“… Claus Raible …plays with that style that embodies vitality and authority, which is real, captivating and fresh, yet without being nostalgic.”
Hans-Jürgen Schaal, Jazz Critic
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Featured shows

Sept

22

2023

Claus Raible Trio

Stadthalle Germering

Sept

30

2023

Claus Raible Trio

Birdland, Neuburg

Oct

19

2023

Claus Raible International Tentet

EBE Jazz

Oct

20

2023

Claus Raible International Tentet

Jazz Club Unterfahrt

Oct

21

2023

Claus Raible International Tentet

Jazz Zirkel Weiden

Oct

25

2023

Claus Raible International Tentet

Studio 2, BR Munich

Fugitive Figures

OUT NOW!

NEW RELEASE Alessa Records (ALR 1109)

with
Giorgios Antoniou – b
Xaver Hellmeier – dr

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Reviews from press on Fugitive Figures

About me

In 1975 the third program of the Bavarian Radio (BR3) made a survey to find out who their younger jazz listener was: to their astonishment it was a 8 years old child. His name was Claus Raible.

Claus wasn’t born in a family of musicians or jazz-lovers who provided him an education in jazz at early age. While attending primary school he discovered jazz on his own, through a little radio and soon started to record the transmissions, listening to themes and solos over and over again, until he knew them by heart. He grew up listening Duke Ellington, Basie, Ear Hines and Art Tatum, investigated the roots of jazz, stride piano and blues and by the time he finished primary school he knew more about jazz than most of music student twice his age…