Release Date: 25 February 2022
Label: MPS
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4029759136842
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Release Date: 25 February 2022
Label: MPS
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4029759136859
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Description
With her very own musical language, pianist Julia Kadel has become a regular talking point in jazz circles, releasing her first two records on Blue Note/Universal she and her trio were nominated in 2015 for the prestigious German Music Award Echo Jazz as "Newcomer of the year" and Julia Kadel as "Female instrumentalist of the year". Julia Kadel's variable competitions, her imaginative playing and the band's striking improvisations became more courageous over time. On 'Kaskaden' they have now reached a new dimension of detail and intensity. More determined than ever, the trio balances the fine line between harmony and atonality, intuition and reflection, poetry and austerity.
The live qualities of the trio, which was founded in 2011, its subtle interaction and intuitive understanding encouraged the trio to produce the new album under live conditions - especially as it took place in the legendary MPS studio in Villingen (Black Forest, Germany). Its history dates back to 1958, great jazz pianists such as Oscar Peterson, George Shearing, Monty Alexander and Bill Evans once recorded here. With the Bösendorfer Grand Imperial grand piano - once acquired for Friedrich Gulda - in the center surrounded by classic analogue technology, Kaskaden was captured to tape one-to-one. This influenced not only the charismatic sound but also the special atmosphere that characterises the album.
Furthermore, the location of the recording not only came as a surprise but probably also as a small sensation to every fan of MPS as the Julia Kadel Trio is the first MPS act after over 35 years recording again in the historic studios; the popular German magazine Der Spiegel reported about it.
Description
With her very own musical language, pianist Julia Kadel has become a regular talking point in jazz circles, releasing her first two records on Blue Note/Universal she and her trio were nominated in 2015 for the prestigious German Music Award Echo Jazz as "Newcomer of the year" and Julia Kadel as "Female instrumentalist of the year". Julia Kadel's variable competitions, her imaginative playing and the band's striking improvisations became more courageous over time. On 'Kaskaden' they have now reached a new dimension of detail and intensity. More determined than ever, the trio balances the fine line between harmony and atonality, intuition and reflection, poetry and austerity.
The live qualities of the trio, which was founded in 2011, its subtle interaction and intuitive understanding encouraged the trio to produce the new album under live conditions - especially as it took place in the legendary MPS studio in Villingen (Black Forest, Germany). Its history dates back to 1958, great jazz pianists such as Oscar Peterson, George Shearing, Monty Alexander and Bill Evans once recorded here. With the Bösendorfer Grand Imperial grand piano - once acquired for Friedrich Gulda - in the center surrounded by classic analogue technology, Kaskaden was captured to tape one-to-one. This influenced not only the charismatic sound but also the special atmosphere that characterises the album.
Furthermore, the location of the recording not only came as a surprise but probably also as a small sensation to every fan of MPS as the Julia Kadel Trio is the first MPS act after over 35 years recording again in the historic studios; the popular German magazine Der Spiegel reported about it.
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Oscar Peterson
Monty Alexander
Various Artists
John Taylor Trio
Volker Kriegel
Jean-Luc Ponty
Alphonse Mouzon
The Rolf Kuhn Group
Julia Kadel Trio
