Lineage Pablo Held Trio

• 1 Hidden 05:08
• 2 Lament 08:23
• 3 Song Noir 03:07
• 4 Bernstein Fantasie 06:45
• 5 Lineage 04:39
• 6 Ammedea 05:04
• 7 Meta 04:50
• 8 Spuren 07:32
• Total Runtime 45:28

Info for Lineage

The Pablo Held Trio celebrates 10 astounding years together with their new Pirouet album Lineage, heady music with an innate naturalness brilliantly balanced between the known and the newly discovered.

Critics laud Pablo Held as “a hero of the young German jazz scene” who has “already earned his place in the pantheon of modern day piano trio leaders”. Justified praise for a man who at the age of 29 has a decade of astounding music behind him, with his trio the nucleus of that music. The influential German newspaper DIE ZEIT stated that partners Burgwinkel and Landfermann “have gained the reputation as the dream team for musical extreme communication.”, and Downbeat says of the trio, “... no matter how distinctive the frame, the trio is the picture, always sounding like its ruminative, glowing self.'

The three started playing together at the conservatory in Cologne. Held reminisces, “It was an exciting time for me, being away from home and on my own. Everything was new. From the beginning, we’ve hung out together. We’re close friends and can talk about anything onstage and off. This kind of trust helps us with our music. When I’m writing songs I hear Robert and Jonas in my head. For me, there are no other players who could take their place.”

For some time now Pablo has had a desire to do an album in which the trio “plays the songs the way I wrote them, with themes and improvisations staying in form the way we did on our first two albums, Forest of Oblivion and Music. Since Forest, we started to have this live concept where we basically deconstructed and reconstructed everything on the spot.” As for the title, Lineage—“Where we come from has always been important to me—what influences us—but that also entails responsibilities. Also Johannes just became a father and I had my second child, so there’s the lineage as a family as well as a musical family. I’m a European musician, a German musician, influenced by our classical tradition, but I’m also a jazz musician connected to the American way of doing this music; I’m also connected to the European way of playing jazz and improvised music. My music is as much influenced by Monk as it is by Debussy or Bach. Everything that influences me is part of that lineage.” …

Pablo Held, piano
Robert Landfermann, double bass
Jonas Burgwinkel, drums

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