Christopher Robin Cox

Christopher Robin Cox is a trombonist/composer/improviser originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, who has been living in Budapest, Hungary for just over six years, performing regularly around Europe as both a soloist and with ensembles. As of September of 2025, he will be living part-time in Vienna.

He currently has a Hungarian trio with bassist Péter Ajtai and drummer Attila Gyárfás (who recently released a record on the PMG Jazz label in Macedonia), a psychedelic free jazz quartet named Cosmic Cluster that fuses free improvisation with expansive use of electro-acoustic exploration, and frequently performs in solo and duo as well. Most recently, he has been working with two very international ensembles, one based in Hungary called Dunyha, which fuses traditional Transylvanian folk melodies with free jazz and doom metal, and the Sürgős Quartet with American saxophonist Elliott Levin, Japanese bassist Akira Ando, and Czech drummer Jakub Svejnar. This group recently did a short tour of Germany, Czechia, and Hungary in April to very enthusiastic crowds.  

He began playing creative improvised music during the 1990s free-jazz renaissance in the Bay Area with people like Marco Eneidi, Glenn Spearman, Jackson Krall, George Cremasci, Garth Powell, and many many others. He's shared the stage with a vast array of artists stretching from free improvisation to political hip-hop, including Cecil Taylor, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Jason Robinson, Franz Houtzinger, Denis Fournier, Denman Maroney, hip-hop legend Michael "Eyedea" Larson, poets Guante Tran Mhyre, Sha Cage, EG Bailey, and Amiri Baraka, as well as many world-famous big bands. While his career has been varied, and he is capable of playing almost anything, it is free improvisation that keeps him going.