Structucture Roger Kintopf

• 1 Respawn 04:21
• 2 Garden City 06:13
• 3 Underwood 04:53
• 4 Frostburn 07:07
• 5 Cl4p-Tp 05:16
• 6 Damn Good Coffee 04:41
• 7 Point Nemo 03:36
• 8 Bob (The Squirrel) 04:13
• Total Runtime 40:20

Info for Structucture

Structucture unites four individuals, who found their common idea of a musical attitude since the first day they met. Their music aims to create a collective expression of creativity with great energy. The atmosphere shifts between energetic impulses and phases of silence, which are controlled and processed by concentrated interaction of all four musicians.

Roger Kintopf’s compositions fathom the possibilities of interaction within this quartet without a harmony instrument. The music is based on strong structures, rhythm and harmony, which let the saxophonists Victor Fox and Asger Nissen operate with versatility. Felix Ambach and Roger Kintopf are not merely a rhythm section. As a strongly interlocked unit, Structucture develops an attitude, which focuses the sound of the whole band as well as the flexibility of each individual musician within that constantly moving entity.

Asger Nissen, alto saxophone
Victor Fox, tenor saxophone, bass clarinet
Roger Kintopf, bass
Felix Ambach, drums
Felix Hauptmann, organ
Travis Reuter, guitar

Roger Kintopf
is a jazz bassist and composer. Grown up in a musical family, he gains experiences on the stage since he was a child.

After getting classical piano lessons for a few years, he already won first awards at competitions like „Jugend Musiziert“ and „International Rotary Pianocompetition“.

After spending his early years on the piano, he started playing the electric bass and after a while he changed over to the double bass.

Since a few years Roger has established a strong voice within german jazz scene, playing and having performed with Loren Stillman, Travis Reuter, Billy Test, Frank Gratkowski, Jonas Burgwinkel, etc. He works as well as a sideman in small and large ensembles featuring guests like Kit Downes, Christian Lillinger, Evan Parker, etc.

He toured through New York with the Youth Jazz Orchestra of Hessen in 2015 and has been part of the German National Jazz Orchestra (BuJazzO) 2016-2018, whereby he toured through Ecuador and India in 2017.

With diverse bands he played concerts in Germany, France, Netherlands, Poland, Czech Republic, Switzerland, USA, Ecuador, India and Nepal.

Roger studied at Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne with Dieter Manderscheid, Dietmar Fuhr and Jonas Burgwinkel from 2016 until 2018. In 2019 Roger moved to Paris in order to continue his studies abroad with Riccardo Del Fra.

Since 2018 Roger Kintopf is a scholarship holder of the „Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes“

He played at festivals and locations like Jazzfest Bonn, Eldenaer Jazz Evenings, 
Plush Music Festival, Stadtgarten Cologne, Altes Pfandhaus Cologne, Philharmonic Hall Cologne, Philharmonic Hall Essen, Bimhuis Amsterdam, …

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