Leo Betzl Trio at Smida Jazz Festival at Smida Park

Leo Betz Trio is one of the few bands that experiment “techno jazz” and they will bring this style for the first time in Romania. They come from Germany and their sounds can be described as an experimental area in an acoustic manner: no synthesizer, no computer, only a piano, a double bass and the percussion.

The group has a proven affinity for improvisation: there are phrases on the piano or the strings are worked on with a plectrum, the bass gently smoothed out or simply cut to pieces and the drums from fine rustle to powerful groove fully exploited. Betzl has a special microphone, just for his reverb fingerclicks...

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Leo Betz Trio is one of the few bands that experiment “techno jazz” and they will bring this style for the first time in Romania. They come from Germany and their sounds can be described as an experimental area in an acoustic manner: no synthesizer, no computer, only a piano, a double bass and the percussion.

The group has a proven affinity for improvisation: there are phrases on the piano or the strings are worked on with a plectrum, the bass gently smoothed out or simply cut to pieces and the drums from fine rustle to powerful groove fully exploited. Betzl has a special microphone, just for his reverb fingerclicks. Meanwhile, Wolfgruber hisses a spraycan rhythmically, hopefully not destroying his microphone in the process, then playing a bass solo that sounds like it was emanating from an Indian sarangi.

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