Kristina Brodersen has created a repertoire for her project KRISTINA 4 that offers music and musicians great creative freedom in an instrumentation without harmonic instruments. Inspired by the freedom-loving music of Ornette Coleman from the late 1950s and 1960s, the Cologne alto and soprano saxophonist combines her motivic improvisational art with a free and open playing style. The connection to the music of the legendary soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy is clearly audible – both artists pursued the ideal of reconciling melodically and harmonically sophisticated jazz improvisation with avant-garde freedom. Compositions such as "Never Ending Story" and "Don's Time" – the latter dedicated to trumpeter Don Cherry – unmistakably demonstrate this artistic attitude.

Line-Up:

Kristina Brodersen (alto saxophone)

Bastian Stein (trumpet)

Christian Ramond (bass)

Silvio Morger (drums)