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Genre(s): Jazz/Improvised MusicFrom: Vienna, Austria
Website: www.murielgrossmann.com
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BIOGRAPHY
Austrian alto, soprano, tenor saxophonist and composer Muriel Grossmann was born in
Paris and grew up in Vienna, where she initiated classical studies of flute at the age of five until twenty-one, when she transitioned to alto and soprano saxophone and soon began performing and touring with various rhythm & blues, funk, world music, and jazz groups and artists.
In 2002 she moved to Barcelona, where she began leading her own bands for recordings
and concerts. Since 2004 she has been based in Ibiza, which marks a period of particularly fruitful recording and performing activity. Muriel Grossmann has played and recorded with Joachim Kühn, Wolfgang Reisinger, Rolf Kühn, Joe Sanders, Alice Zawadzki, Alina Bzhezhinska, Christian Lillinger, Robert Landfermann, Esteve Pi, Eric Person, and Omar Kabir, as well Muriel Grossmann Barcelona Quartet, performing and recording her original compositions.
Grossmann played in Spain, France, Belgium, Austria, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Greece, England, Morocco, South Africa, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary, Italy, Finland, Estonia, Denmark performing over 150 concerts a year.
From 2011 to 2014, Muriel Grossmann performed and recorded with a quartet featuring
Radomir Milojkovic (Spain) on guitar, Robert Landfermann ( Germany) on upright bass, and Christian Lillinger ( Germany) on drums.
Since 2014 she has been working with Radomir Milojkovic (Spain) on guitar, Gina Schwarz (Austria) on double bass and Uros Stamenkovic ( Canada) on drums. Her album “Golden Rule”, released on RR GEMS Records on vinyl, was awarded Best Album of the Year (2018) by UK Vibe Magazine.
In 2019, “Reverence” entered Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide Awards, and Peterson has been playing Muriel’s music ever since. Since 2022 Abel Boquera (Spain) plays and records Hammond B3 organ with the Muriel Grossmann Quartet.
In 2023, Muriel Grossmann released the album “Devotion” on Jack White’s label Third Man Records. She had previously participated in a Third Man Records Vault subscription package honoring the great electric Miles Davis album Fearless. Her contribution,
“Muriel Grossmann Plays Miles”, was issued on a 7-inch single and reached more than 12 000 subscribers.
In 2024, the Muriel Grossmann Quartet performed at Gilles Peterson Presents Impressions at the Fondation Maeght in Vence, France, and at Jazz á la Villette in the Grande Salle Pierre Boulez at the Philharmonie de Paris, among other venues. In the same year, Muriel was also nominated by Die Presse for Austrian of the Year in the category of international success.
“Muriel Grossmann, an artist who single-handedly reshaped and reinvented spiritual jazz for this century remains one of the greatest spiritual jazz performers, recording artists, and composers of today.” Hermes Vilena, King Georg, Cologne
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