The European jazz star’s austerely named compositions can be hard work – but reworking them for solo piano frees them up The Swiss pianist Nik Bärtsch is many things: a club proprietor (he describes ...

With the zen-funk quintet RONIN founded in 2001, Nik Bärtsch, a composer and pianist from Zurich,- together with Kaspar Rast (drums), Björn Meyer (bass), Andi Pupato (percussion) and lately Sha ...

“Listening: Music, Movement, Mind” is the first book by Swiss Jazz pianist Nik Bärtsch. Published over the summer by Lars Müller, it’s the first time Bärtsch has explained in detail the inner workings ...

The Swiss pianist Nik Bärtsch has become a virtual fixture of the Enjoy Jazz festival, which customarily inhabits at least three cities in southern Germany. It sprawls across all of October and half ...

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Schwarze Hose, schwarzer Überwurf: Schlichte Kleidung ist ein Kennzeichen des Zürcher Musikers und Komponisten Nik Bärtsch. Mit robusten Kleidern ist er für alle Situationen gut gewappnet. Auch in ...

Eigentlich gibt es hier keine Zugaben. Die Begeisterung im proppenvollen Club Berghain in Berlin war aber so gross, dass Nik Bärtsch und seine neunköpfige Band Mobile gleich zwei Encores spielen ...

Llyria is the third ECM album for the Swiss keyboardist Nik Bärtsch and his "zen-funk" Ronin group – representing, according to Bärtsch, a relaxation of the ritualistic, pattern-bound structures he's ...

Led by Swiss pianist and composer Nik Bärtsch, zen-funk quartet Ronin is playing in Tokyo for the first time in nine years. The band is set to perform for two consecutive nights at Minami Aoyama music ...

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