Imprint

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Cat No: 2744262

Release Date: 21 February 2011

Label: ECM Records

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 602527442624

Genres: Jazz Contemporary

Description
Imprint is the second ECM album by Germany's Julia HÃ¼lsmann Trio, and a follow-up to the critically-lauded The End of a Summer, the group's ECM debut released in 2008. Both as a player and writer HÃ¼lsmann conveys a sense of poetic compression. Her themes stand out in stark relief, as if stamped or printed into the surrounding improvisation, and are highly memorable. She says: "My music is all about melody. It's that simple".

This is a group with a strong identity of its own, developed steadily since the trio's founding in 1997. HÃ¼lsmann's well-crafted melodies - drawing inspiration from classical music and pop as well as the jazz tradition - establish the atmospheric climate of the music. Bassist Marc Muellbauer and drummer Heinrich KÃ¶bberling also write for the band, the pieces they bring in adher to HÃ¼lsman's emphasis on the centrality of melody.

Their communicative power has been felt especially in Germany, where the group has a strong following. Their pre-ECM 2001 album "Scattering Poems" sold more than 10,000 copies in Germany and won them a German Jazz Award. Subsequent exposure on ECM has brought the trio's music to the world.

In the UK, Jazzwise magazine described HÃ¼lsmann's ECM debut as "Full of elegantly-constructed melodies that seem natural extensions of the thematic material at hand: there is a kind of musical poetry at work here which is as absorbing as it is fulfilling."

Personnel: Julia HÃ¼lsmann (piano), Marc Muellbauer (double-bass), Heinrich KÃ¶bberling (drums)
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