Vincent Meissner - Wille (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

"A new hope of German jazz," recognized mdr Kultur, to which Deutschlandfunk added: "a band that will take off like a rocket." American Downbeat heard "excitement and enthusiasm" in Vincent Meissner's 2021 debut album "Bewegtes Feld," produced by his mentor Michael Wollny. The pianist was only twenty at the time and already decorated with prizes. Much praise, much honor … Yet his young acoustic piano trio with bassist Josef Zeimetz and drummer Henri Reichmann had hardly had the opportunity to present and develop the rich material composed entirely by the band leader live.

This has changed in the meantime, which has increased the fun even more. You can hear it on this new album how this trio has moved closer together and increased its joy of playing. Immediately after the first recordings they tried out new pieces, tested ideas and continued as if in a flowing transition. After the play was before the play … Josef is now studying in Basel, Henri has moved to Leipzig to continue his studies at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Academy of Theater and Music, where Vincent's teacher in the piano major is now Frank Chastenier. Vincent calls his two mentors, Wollny and Chastenier, "a supercombi."

The band has developed its interplay, now approaching the pieces more freely. Through more open passages, the sound has changed. They act more emotionally and love more complex forms in which they play with structures and continue ideas they share. This has created a compact band sound, which they can run flexibly and condense into song-like pieces. Energy and force are there, but also contemplation and pause. Everything is possible now. Variable, lively and tightly interlocked this progresses, whereby they have sharpened the focus for this album for song-like melodic songs.

"Wille" is the name of the album that beads through in a driving flow, whose inner logic captivates with an inner cohesion that transports authenticity in a mobile, fresh and agile way. These three know exactly that they can achieve a lot together, with a high sympathy bonus accompanying them and fueling their sovereignty. The goal is a striking catchiness beyond the banal.

TRACKLIST

1. Vincent Meissner - August
2. Vincent Meissner - Admiral Bingo
3. Vincent Meissner - I Wanna Dance with Somebody
4. Vincent Meissner - Sonne
5. Vincent Meissner - Things
6. Vincent Meissner - The Dynamic Angularity of Past Future Visions
7. Vincent Meissner - In My Life
8. Vincent Meissner - Young Folks
9. Vincent Meissner - Da Sein - Hier Sein
10. Vincent Meissner - Gegenstand Unserer Wahrnehmung
11. Vincent Meissner - Die Last Der Früchte
12. Vincent Meissner - Wille
13. Vincent Meissner - Innig Ruhig



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