Thursday 17th October 2024
Location: Billy Byrnes 39 John St Kilkenny
Aerie is a quartet lead by saxophonist Ingo Hipp. Founded in 2013, they have performed over 90 concerts in Europe and Asia. As a modern European Jazz quintet, Aerie’s members represent Ireland, Germany and Switzerland.

The band’s first album hatch and host was released in September 2015 under the Neuklang label (Bauer Studios). Their second album, SONIC, followed in 2018 on the Berlin label QFTF. In 2019, they released their first live album: AERIE LIVE IN CHINA, which was recorded in Xi-An, China in 2018 and was released in China on a return tour in 2019.
If Aerie’s music were a painting, it would be big, lively and colorful. Hipp’s writing showcases an incisive saxophonist/composer who has performed all across Europe, China and Africa.

Hipp’s intrepid concepts are in full force in this auspicious project, one that integrates fiercely grooving and high-energy jazz with rock and a touch of bright color, realized by his outstanding band Sam Comerford (sax – IRL), Laurent Méteau (guitar – CH), Tabea Kind (bass – GER) and Matthew Jacobson (drums – IRL).
Aerie stimulates on multiple levels while revealing that progressive jazz does indeed exist outside of New York City’s sphere of influence. These European musicians are serious contenders of the art-form with their unfaltering abilities heard in their live and recorded output.

“Hipp’s real achievement here is in keeping his talented band together for more than one outing, and writing some gorgeous music that artfully exploits the proclivities of its members” Irish Times

“a boldly original composer… one of the most exciting of the current crop of maverick European jazz bands” All About Jazz
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