Irene Reig Quartet

This elegant and cohesive quartet led by Catalan saxophonist Irene Reig manages to remain stylish without clinging to the sometimes stifling safety of contemporary jazz. Listen to her recent album ÀNIMA and you will hear Reig’s saxophone easily shift between straight-up hard bop power and disarming, almost melancholy, melodic simplicity. She arrives at Athens Jazz at her creative peak, with an international career that includes major venues and festivals, such as Jamboree Jazz Club, X-Jazz Berlin, Grachtenfestival, Festival de Jazz de Vitoria, Trondheim Festival, The Hermitage, Instituto Cervantes, and Lugo Jazz Festival, as well as major collaborations with artists like Maria Schneider, Perico Sambeat, Dick Oatts, Gramophone Allstars, Bop Collective and John Swana. There’s something special about music that finds a direct and unmediated way to our hearts and Reig has proven that she has a gift for hitting that emotional bull’s-eye with every performance.