Patrick Zimmerli

American tenor saxophonist Patrick Zimmerli, winner of the 1993 Thelonious Monk Competition, is one of the elite composers on the avant-garde jazz scene. Leader of The Jazz Ambassadors quintet in 1995 and member of the Jazz Composers collective, he has performed alongside Bill Stewart, Kevin Hays, The Bad Plus and Scott Colley, while recording a number of landmark albums: Explosion in 1997, Arabesque in 1998, Expansion in 2000 and The Book of Hours in 2002. For a time a professor at Columbia University (New York), Patrick Zimmerli experimented with contemporary music with Ethan Iverson and the ensemble Metamorphosen (2000), the Belgian ensemble Octurn and the French group Kartet. The premiere of Modern Music at New York's Carnegie Hall in 2011 was followed by an album of the same name with fellow musicians Brad Mehldau and Kevin Hays.

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