Formed by award-winning saxophonist, Darius Blair (23), and distinguished guitarist Niko Huber (25), BLAIR / HUBER first met as kids after being accepted into Hessen’s State Youth Jazz Orchestra, and its renowned Kicks and Sticks Big Band. Blair was still six when he was first turned onto the saxophone by his soul- and gospel-loving preacher father and a Grover Washington Jr. LP, while Huber’s choice of instrument was arguably inevitable, since he grew up with a musician father known better as the founder of the revered Nik Huber Guitars.

 

Having performed together in multiple line-ups for a good decade or so, as well as in their own projects – Huber fronts Bird’s View, an alt. rock band, while Blair’s part of the unconventional Discovery Collective, not to mention his Darius Blair Quartett – they first began playing as a duo at the start of the pandemic. The same year, Blair became the youngest recipient of the Frankfurt Jazz Scholarship before winning 1st Prize at Future Sounds two years later. Since then, they’ve bewitched audiences from clubs to castles, and having now signed to LEITER, they are set to follow their debut EP, IN A NEW ORDER, with their first full-length album, which is currently in the making.

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Darius Blair – Saxophon
Niko Huber- Gitarre