His music has taken him to all parts of the world and given him the chance to work with great musicians, big and small. Born in 1956 in the USA, he studied music there (Oberlin Conservatory) for a time, but left the sterility of college soon (penniless) to take jobs in the most differing kinds of hard labor. After his immigration "back" to Europe (part of his family are of Slovenian origin), he found the time to rebuild his creative interests and began his career again in 1985. Since then, he has set his pen and his fingers to music for the theater, ballet, opera, "oriental-jazz", film-music, piano and chamber music, etc. In the "hardcore-chamber ensemble" Four Free, which was founded in 2005, Chris Jarrett is playing his musical wild card and opening up the more spontaneous and even jocular side of his creative world.