Sebastian Studnitzky

Releases: Studnitzky Trio | EGIS

Sebastian Studnitzky
Trio
Date of release: 02-01-2008
Distribution: edel kultur
42601090096 HER

Studnitzky simply makes music.

In today's music business a juicy story or a fancy marketing idea often appears to be more important than a song. Some "concept" albums are no more than inane "art" of packaging. More Christo than chorus, so to speak. American commercials have a slogan for this: "Where's the beef?"

No wonder trumpeter, pianist and keyboard player Sebastian Studnitzky is now looking for just that beef. Far from all industrial expectations, he pursues his aim - possibly out of time - to simply record his music. He is supported by two masters of the small form: Wolfgang Haffner and Dieter Ilg, who both have their places in the first league of European jazz musicians. Studnitzky is bound to the two not only by their common broad perception of music, but also a truly purist friendship of like-minded, which creates the musical reliance that is necessary for a confession as intimate as "Trio".

• Press Material More information and pics for download.  
• www.studnitzky.de the official Website.  

Studnitzky says: "I like things that come along a little frugally. I think we should re-learn to let music and musicians speak, and do without the showy and spectacular." This, of course, is an exclusive pleasure. It helps to be a master of what one might call 'feeling' or 'tint', like Studnitzky is. With relish he creatively searches for organic tone colors and patterns, his piano playing is calm, balanced and peculiarly centered. His music is more about reduction and destilling statements than about pressing as many notes as possible into one solo. Studnitzky's trumpet sound is also warm, soft and mellow.

Sebastian Studnitzky's "Trio" is a confident, unwound acoustic jazz album, a small, yet powerful artefact made of pure musical taste. For the band leader, these recordings are a creative time-out from the turbulence of his many projects in the past few years. Not only with his own band TRIBAND, but also as a sideman (Mezzoforte, Rebekka Bakken, Wolfgang Haffner, Nils Landgren, and others) he is one of Germany's busiest jazz musicians.

The fact that Studnitzky has engaged Wolfgang Haffner and Dieter Ilg as his companions, two big names in European jazz, is not a matter of marketing, but pure content: "I can't think of any constellation that could play my music better" - a statement that is confirmed with every time one listens to the album. The magic of this confident recording lies in the impression its eight tracks leave: that nothing in the world is easier as simply making good music.
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