BENEDIKT JAHNEL TRIO

(CD) THE INVARIANT
The trio with Spanish bassist Antonio Miguel and Canadian drummer Owen Howard has been an "invariant" in the life of Berlin based pianist Benedikt Jahnel. Hence the album title: The Invariant is issued as the group goes on tour to celebrate its tenth anniversary as a working unit. Opening track "Further Consequences" picks up where the critically-lauded Equilibrium left off, extending ideas about pianistic patterning and textural playing. Like many of Jahnel's tunes an odd-metred piece, it also contains elements of swing in its solo sectio...
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(CD) EQUILIBRIUM
"Equilibrium" is the ECM debut of a German/Canadian/Spanish trio, which through frequent touring has grown into a remarkably tight and stylistically unique unit in recent years. Fuelled by the tension created through the contrasting styles of pianist Benedikt Jahnel (whose approach is characterised by an unusual interest in rhythmic subdivisions) and drummer Howard (who, in Jahnels words, "treats and perceives rhythmic phrases as melodical lines without fixed micro units"), and with bass player Antonio Miguel often the musical mediator, th...
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