Born May, 21st, 1962.

Jitz studied clarinet in Luxembourg and Strasbourg, then jazz in strasbourg and Liège. He has played in numerous jazz and popular bands since the eighties, e.o. Atmosphere, Ernie Hammes, taboola rasa, Raquel Barreira, Luxembourg Jazz Orchestra, Garlicks, Marly Marques 5tet and the saxophone quartet Saxifaction. He performed a o. With David Linx, Sal LaRocca, Philip Catherine (B), Pierre-Alain Goualch (F), Marc Scholten (NL), Helmut Eisel (D), Nils Landgren (Sweden), Ali Ryerson, Steve Shehan, Bob Mintzer, Slide Hampton, Freddy Cole, Jon Faddis, The New York Voices (USA), Christine & Ingrid Jensen (Can) and Claudio Roditi (Brazil). He was a member of the Euroradio Big Band in residence in Istanbul in 2003.

 Since 2009, he has his own 4tet jjQ - Jitz Jeitz 4tet. Repertoire: originals and unusual standards. Style: mainstream, modern.

He is currently a member of the Minor Majors 5tet www.theminormajors.info.

“Saxophonist Jitz Jeitz plays with a hollow tone that brings Marty Ehrlich's sound on tenor sax to mind“

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„Die Musik ist verspielt und humorvoll, frech, und vor allem flott, mitreißend und abwechslungsreich“.

Lëtzebuerger Land

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