Hammond Sandwich
2023-04-15 20:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Venray, Venray, Netherlands

trio Onoda
2023-04-16 20:00 | Farmsteadt, Utrecht, Netherlands

Krijger/Smits
2023-04-20 20:00 | Jazz in de Kamer, Leiden, Netherlands
collaboration between myself and trumpeter Koen Smits – invited by ‘Jazz in de kamer – Leiden’

Hammond Sandwich
2023-04-23 20:00 | Lievekamp, Oss, Netherlands
Paul van Kemenade – altosax // Jeroen Doomernik – trumpet // Carlo de Wijs – Hammondorgan & pedals // Arno Krijger – Hammondorgan & pedals // Chris Strik – drums

Trio Onoda
2023-05-12 20:00 | Bridge Festival, Eindhoven, Netherlands

Frits Bayens Big Band
2023-05-18 17:00 | Breda Jazz Festival, Breda, Netherlands
guest appearance with the Frits Bayens Big Band together with vocalist Stephanie Soffers

Arbenz/Osby/Krijger
2023-06-08 00:00 | birdseye
As part of a Hammondorgan week, we’ll be playing the Birdseye NOT with Greg Osby on this occasion, but with the great trumpet-player Percy Pursglove.
Arbenz / Krijger / Osby: Conversation #9: Targeted
By Chris May
March 22, 2023

This mind-bending album skewers any notion that modern-day organ trios are all unimaginative bores churning out reheated cliches lifted from Blue Note and Prestige albums of the 1950s and ’60s.
With that stereotype in mind, one would hesitate to apply the term “organ trio” to the collaborative group on Targeted. But its instigator, the Swiss drummer Florian Arbenz, uses the description in his liner notes when introducing Hammond organist Arno Krijger. Arbenz actually calls the band a “slightly unusual organ-trio,” proving that it is not only the English who can make with the understatement.
Even so, considering that the lineup is completed by saxophonist Greg Osby, in magnificent form, even Arbenz’s nuanced description might seem a bit of a stretch, if not plain inadequate.
When Krijger’s solo kicks in at 3:43 on track one, however, the choice of words is justified within seconds. The sound is not just menacing, it positively snarls at you. The track is Eddie Harris‘ “Freedom Jazz Dance,” though like the other two standards to be heard, Victor Feldman‘s “Seven Steps To Heaven” and George Gershwin’s “I Loves You Porgy,” the version here is so radically rebooted that one would be forgiven for barely recognising it. The other tracks are Arbenz’s “Sleeping Mountain” and “Old Shaman” and Osby’s “Vertical Hold.”
Between the six tracks there is enough light and shade—enough snarling and caressing—to deliver a wonderfully well-rounded forty-minutes of listening pleasure. And it is by no means just Krijger’s show. Osby, on alto and soprano, is consistently intriguing, whether at full throttle or crooning. Arbenz is a vivid colourist and beat provider and his opening solo on “Seven Steps To Heaven” is among the album’s (many) highlights. As organ trios go, this is definitely one step beyond. Hopefully, a second album will follow. Meanwhile, this one is a killer.
Postscript: Targeted is not Arbenz and Osby’s first time on record together. The duo have been an on-off item since 1998, and in 2020 released the self produced and highly recommended Reflections Of The Eternal Line. That year, by the way, was an unusually good one for saxophone and drums albums, with, out of the US, drummer Ted Poor and alto saxophonist Andrew D’Angelo‘s perfect little masterpiece, You Already Know (Impulse!).

Track Listing
Freedom Jazz Dance; Sleeping Mountain; Vertical Hold; Seven Steps To Heaven; I Loves You Porgy; Old Shaman.
Personnel
Additional Instrumentation
Greg Osby: alto saxophone, soprano saxophone; Arno Krijger: Hammond organ; Florian Arbenz: drums, percussion.

Nostalgia + Subway jazz orchestra
2023-06-14, 2023-06-15 | Club Subway, cologne
cooperation between Nils Wogram’s Nostalgia and the Cologne based big band Subway Jazz Orchestra.
We will be playing one set in trio. The second set will exist of fresh arrangements of a couple of songs of the 3 latest albums by Nostalgia.

Nostalgia + Subway jazz orchestra
2023-06-16 | Domicil, Dortmund

Nostalgia + Subway jazz orchestra
2023-06-17 | Open Air concert at Haus für Lehrerfortbildung, Kronenburg Eifel

Hammond Sandwich
2023-06-23 20:00 | Fruitvis, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Robotkiller
2023-06-24 18:00 | NSJ Round Town, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Arbenz/Osby/Krijger
2023-08-25 20:00 | Church, Riga, Latvia

Trio Onoda
2023-09-08 08:00 - 17:00 | Ujazz, Utrecht, Netherlands

arbenz/osby/krijger
2023-11-09 | hagental jazz club, Switzerland
Florian Arbenz – drums // Greg Osby – saxophones // Arno Krijger – organ & pedals

Touring Italy/Germany/Switzerland/Belgium and Holland

Arbenz / Krijger / Osby: Conversation #9: Targeted
By Chris May
March 22, 2023

This mind-bending album skewers any notion that modern-day organ trios are all unimaginative bores churning out reheated cliches lifted from Blue Note and Prestige albums of the 1950s and ’60s.
With that stereotype in mind, one would hesitate to apply the term “organ trio” to the collaborative group on Targeted. But its instigator, the Swiss drummer Florian Arbenz, uses the description in his liner notes when introducing Hammond organist Arno Krijger. Arbenz actually calls the band a “slightly unusual organ-trio,” proving that it is not only the English who can make with the understatement.
Even so, considering that the lineup is completed by saxophonist Greg Osby, in magnificent form, even Arbenz’s nuanced description might seem a bit of a stretch, if not plain inadequate.
When Krijger’s solo kicks in at 3:43 on track one, however, the choice of words is justified within seconds. The sound is not just menacing, it positively snarls at you. The track is Eddie Harris‘ “Freedom Jazz Dance,” though like the other two standards to be heard, Victor Feldman‘s “Seven Steps To Heaven” and George Gershwin’s “I Loves You Porgy,” the version here is so radically rebooted that one would be forgiven for barely recognising it. The other tracks are Arbenz’s “Sleeping Mountain” and “Old Shaman” and Osby’s “Vertical Hold.”
Between the six tracks there is enough light and shade—enough snarling and caressing—to deliver a wonderfully well-rounded forty-minutes of listening pleasure. And it is by no means just Krijger’s show. Osby, on alto and soprano, is consistently intriguing, whether at full throttle or crooning. Arbenz is a vivid colourist and beat provider and his opening solo on “Seven Steps To Heaven” is among the album’s (many) highlights. As organ trios go, this is definitely one step beyond. Hopefully, a second album will follow. Meanwhile, this one is a killer.
Postscript: Targeted is not Arbenz and Osby’s first time on record together. The duo have been an on-off item since 1998, and in 2020 released the self produced and highly recommended Reflections Of The Eternal Line. That year, by the way, was an unusually good one for saxophone and drums albums, with, out of the US, drummer Ted Poor and alto saxophonist Andrew D’Angelo‘s perfect little masterpiece, You Already Know (Impulse!).

Track Listing
Freedom Jazz Dance; Sleeping Mountain; Vertical Hold; Seven Steps To Heaven; I Loves You Porgy; Old Shaman.
Personnel
Additional Instrumentation
Greg Osby: alto saxophone, soprano saxophone; Arno Krijger: Hammond organ; Florian Arbenz: drums, percussion.

Arbenz/Osby/Krijger
2023-11-10 | jazzfestival Padowa, Padowa, Italy
Florian Arbenz – drums // Greg Osby – saxophones // Arno Krijger – organ & pedals

Touring Italy/Germany/Switzerland/ Holland

Arbenz / Krijger / Osby: Conversation #9: Targeted
By Chris May
March 22, 2023

This mind-bending album skewers any notion that modern-day organ trios are all unimaginative bores churning out reheated cliches lifted from Blue Note and Prestige albums of the 1950s and ’60s.
With that stereotype in mind, one would hesitate to apply the term “organ trio” to the collaborative group on Targeted. But its instigator, the Swiss drummer Florian Arbenz, uses the description in his liner notes when introducing Hammond organist Arno Krijger. Arbenz actually calls the band a “slightly unusual organ-trio,” proving that it is not only the English who can make with the understatement.
Even so, considering that the lineup is completed by saxophonist Greg Osby, in magnificent form, even Arbenz’s nuanced description might seem a bit of a stretch, if not plain inadequate.
When Krijger’s solo kicks in at 3:43 on track one, however, the choice of words is justified within seconds. The sound is not just menacing, it positively snarls at you. The track is Eddie Harris‘ “Freedom Jazz Dance,” though like the other two standards to be heard, Victor Feldman‘s “Seven Steps To Heaven” and George Gershwin’s “I Loves You Porgy,” the version here is so radically rebooted that one would be forgiven for barely recognising it. The other tracks are Arbenz’s “Sleeping Mountain” and “Old Shaman” and Osby’s “Vertical Hold.”
Between the six tracks there is enough light and shade—enough snarling and caressing—to deliver a wonderfully well-rounded forty-minutes of listening pleasure. And it is by no means just Krijger’s show. Osby, on alto and soprano, is consistently intriguing, whether at full throttle or crooning. Arbenz is a vivid colourist and beat provider and his opening solo on “Seven Steps To Heaven” is among the album’s (many) highlights. As organ trios go, this is definitely one step beyond. Hopefully, a second album will follow. Meanwhile, this one is a killer.
Postscript: Targeted is not Arbenz and Osby’s first time on record together. The duo have been an on-off item since 1998, and in 2020 released the self produced and highly recommended Reflections Of The Eternal Line. That year, by the way, was an unusually good one for saxophone and drums albums, with, out of the US, drummer Ted Poor and alto saxophonist Andrew D’Angelo‘s perfect little masterpiece, You Already Know (Impulse!).

Track Listing
Freedom Jazz Dance; Sleeping Mountain; Vertical Hold; Seven Steps To Heaven; I Loves You Porgy; Old Shaman.
Personnel
Additional Instrumentation
Greg Osby: alto saxophone, soprano saxophone; Arno Krijger: Hammond organ; Florian Arbenz: drums, percussion.

Arbenz/Osby/Krijger
2023-11-11 | jazzclub ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

Arbenz/Osby/Krijger
2023-11-12 | cockney pub, Correzzola, Italy

Arbenz/Osby/Krijger
2023-11-13 | conservatoire, Trieste, Italy

Arbenz/Osby/Krijger
2023-11-14 | Circolo del jazz, Trieste, Italy

Arbenz/Osby/Krijger
2023-11-16 08:00 - 17:00 | Kulturhaus Haselburg, Haselburg, Germany

arbenz/Osby/Krijger
2023-11-17 | paradox, Willem II straat, Tilburg, Netherlands

Arbenz/Osby/Krijger
2023-11-18 | Rathaus Jever, Berlin, Germany

Arbenz/Osby/Krijger
2023-11-19 | Porgy & Bess, Noordstraat, Terneuzen, Netherlands

Nils Wogram's Nostalgia
2024-02-24 | Trombone festival, Basel, Switzerland
We’ll play at the Trombone Festival in Basel with Bart Van Lier and Jiggs Whiggham as guests

Nils Wogram's Nostalgia
2024-02-25 | Horgen jazzclub, Switzerland
we’ll play a gig in Horgen (near Zurich)

Nils Wogram's Nostalgia
2024-02-26, 2024-02-27 | maennedorf, Maennedorf, Switzerland
rehearsal for upcoming recordings

Nils Wogram's Nostalgia
2024-02-28 08:00 - 17:00 | jazzclub Zurich, zurich, Switzerland
