Benedikt Jahnel Trio – The Invariant at JazzTube Festival Bonn at Pantheon Theater

Benedikt Jahnel draws attention especially with the music of his trio, as a sideman he is known among others with the band Cyminology. Benedict toured nearly 40 countries, including the USA, Japan, Kazakhstan, Syria and Indonesia. Concerts and projects were performed with Phil Woods, Johannes Enders, Charlie Mariano, David Friedman, Frank Möbus, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Dave Liebman, John Abercrombie, Manfred Eicher, Clarence Penn, Dan Weiss and Steve Davis.

He can be heard on numerous recordings, since 2012 his trio projects are published by the Munich label ECM. The album “Equilibrium” was celebrated by the international press....

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Benedikt Jahnel draws attention especially with the music of his trio, as a sideman he is known among others with the band Cyminology. Benedict toured nearly 40 countries, including the USA, Japan, Kazakhstan, Syria and Indonesia. Concerts and projects were performed with Phil Woods, Johannes Enders, Charlie Mariano, David Friedman, Frank Möbus, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Dave Liebman, John Abercrombie, Manfred Eicher, Clarence Penn, Dan Weiss and Steve Davis.

He can be heard on numerous recordings, since 2012 his trio projects are published by the Munich label ECM. The album “Equilibrium” was celebrated by the international press.

The long-awaited third album was produced at Rainbow Studios, Oslo. It has been available since 13 January 2017. With “The Invariant” the trio shows itself from a new side: brilliant virtuosic the piano parts, the bass powerful to filigree, electrifying the pulsating drums – everything seems to be of one piece and at no time designed for effects.

A number of new influences, sounds and ideas that the Benedikt Jahnel Trio has never heard before are making their way onto the new CD The Invariant. The trio still has its own language: ingenious rhythms, catchy melody arcs, retracted grooves, circular sequences inspired by Minimal Music – and above it stands the form, which in Jahnels’ compositions is closer to classical works than to typical jazz sheets. On the third CD of the trio, eight new pieces are presented, in which the original sophisticated balance between composed and freely improvised parts is celebrated with relaxed casualness.

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