Marta Warelis - piano
Frank Rosaly - drums, percussion
Tobias Klein - bass clarinet

Klein/Rosaly/Warelis fragment

For 7 bass clarinets and 3 contrabass clarinets. 
The piece was recorded live at De Toonzaal, Den Bosch (NL) on 13 april 2014, performed by Oguz Büyükberber, Claudio Puntin, Ernesto Molinari, Fie Schouten, Harry Sparnaay, Laura Carmichael, Jelte Althuis, Tobias Klein, Ainhoa Miranda and Steffen Schorn.

Too Dark To Read - Tobias Klein (2014)

performed by Spinifex
Gijs Levelt – trumpet
Tobias Klein – alto saxophone 
Jasper Stadhouders – guitar
Goncalo Almeida – bass
Philipp Moser – drums 

Hipsters Gone Ballistic

Lothar Ohlmeier / Tobias Klein, bass clarinet

from the album 'Left side right', release date 16 February 2024, Trytone

Effortless Sweetening - excerpt

Released as a single on 7 June 2024. Part of the Spinifex album 'Undrilling the Hole', to be released on 22 November 2024.

Spinifex - Embrace the Contradictions

A piece by Tobias Klein for Spinifex Sings, recorded in 2022, and part of the album 'Spinifex Sings'.

Spinifex Sings - Ore Badil - A Divine Tongue - Here

Gap - Toothed Smile (2020) for bass clarinet, contra bass clarinet, double bass and drums/percussion

Gap - Toothed Smile (2020)

A short compilation of excerpts of the new album by the duo Oguz Büyükberber / Tobias Klein, release date december 1st on Trytone Records (trytone.org).
Oguz Büyükberber -  bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet, Bb clarinet
Tobias Klein - bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet, Bb clarinet

Oguz Büyükberber Tobias Klein Album Compilation

13 Tung Sten (2014)

written for Duometrie
bass clarinet and percussion/vibraphone

SteinHolzGummiWasser

Almeida - Duynhoven - Klein Vibrate In Sympathy (2015)

A track from the forthcoming Dalgoo album Liberté, Égalité,
Fraternité, to be released end of October 2020 on Jazzwerkstatt.
Lothar Ohlmeier - tenorsax, basklarinet
Tobias Klein - altsax - basklarinet
Meinrad Kneer - contrabas
Christian Marien - drums
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Alexis Baskind.

Dalgoo: Friendly Corpse

37FERN
Claron McFadden - voice
Kristina Fuchs - voice
Oğuz Büyükberber - clarinet, bass clarinet
Tobias Klein - bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet

Recorded by Micha de Kanter at Splendor on 5 November 2019, mixed and mastered by Tolga Tüzün, Istanbul
cover photography by Gemma Kessels
coverdesign by Liluc

Special thanks to Micha de Kanter, Tolga Tüzün, Fie Schouten and Basklarinet Festijn, Claron McFadden and Splendor

1 - Zeynep Kizi

Tobias Klein (*Saarbrücken, Germany, 1967) moved to Amsterdam in 1990 and studied  saxophone and bass clarinet at the Conservatory of Amsterdam with, among others, Jasper Blom and Harry Sparnaay. 
As a performing musician, his focus lies mainly on improvised music and contemporary jazz, enriched by his studies of contemporary composed music, live-electronics and techniques derived from African, Eastern European and Asian music. He currently (co-)leads the groups Spinifex, Lackritz, Maw Sit Sit and the duo Oguz Buyukberber/Tobias Klein.
Tobias composes for both contemporary jazz groups and for chamber music ensembles. His work as a composer is supported by the Performing Arts Fund NL.
In 2010, he was awarded the North Sea Jazz Composition Commission. 
Tobias has toured or recorded with many great musicians such as Jasper Blom, Joost Buis, Oguz Buyukberber, Andrew Claes, Damien Cluzel, Esra Dalfidan, Benoît Delbecq, Marc Ducret, Jozef Dumoulin, Kristina Fuchs, Oene van Geel, Onno Govaert, Mark Haanstra, Sylvia de Hartog, Gerri Jaeger, Gijs Levelt, B.C. Manjunath, Lothar Ohlmeier, Timuçin Sahin, Emmanuel Scarpa, Chris Speed, Jasper Stadhouders, Raphael Vanoli and Teun Verbruggen.  

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