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About “The Ball Chair Experience”
When Crima was seven years old, he stumbled onto his mom’s record collection. The album „Oxygène“, from French Electronic pioneer Jean Michel Jarre, became his first love. He also found other styles such as disco and soul in the record collection, which he quickly came to adore. Then, as a teenager, he became addicted to the genius of Bebop pianist Bud Powell.
Later, when he began playing music himself, he began to ask himself how it would be possible to live in all of these musical worlds at the same time?
In the year 2000, he was working with a band on an album titled „Jazz on the Dancefloor“; which bore some really good moments, but he was not completely satisfied with the outcome. He knew he would have to come back to that topic one day.
Crima has studied music at the University of Music in Mannheim as well as in Trossingen, Germany.
Since then Crima has been working as a sideman, playing keyboard and drums for various great (and partly famous) artists from all over the world, in a variety of styles: from Jazz, Latin, Chanson, Pop, Rock and Electro.
Learning and performing all of these styles has been an inspiring part of his education.
Now - twenty years later – he’s decided to use all of this experience and to give Dancefloor-Jazz another try by connecting the improvisational approach of Jazz with the stirring motion of Dancefloor Music.
With “The Ball Chair Experience”, he’s happy to feature many of the real analog music instruments, which he has collected and perfected over the years in his studio…
