clxxxv. BENEDIKT JAHNEL TRIO
Mirrors (2017)
BJ, piano
Antonio Miguel, bass
Owen Howard, drums
(9:31)
from The Invariant.
Invariant -- meaning the trio has been playing together for over a decade.
Jahnel (b. 1980) is one of those human beings who shames the rest of us mere mortals ...
Besides being a fantastic, unimaginably talented pianist and composer, get this:
He got a PhD in mathematical physics in 2014 at Ruhr University Bochum. Since 2015 he has been a researcher at the Weierstrass Institute Berlin. His main research interests are Gibbs measures and phase transitions, for example in connection with Bose-Einstein condensation, interacting particle systems with applications in the analysis of virus spreading in random graphs, as well as mobile and ad hoc networks. His book "Probabilistic Methods in Telecommunications" which he wrote together with Wolfgang König, was published in 2020.
Perhaps he performs brain surgery on his days off.
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Jahnel starts off with a bunch of gorgeous block chords of varying intensity, is invisibly joined by a telepathic Miguel, and finally Howard -- who kicks off a rhythm in SEVEN.
Things move along with jerky smoothness ... ECM music at the highest level. Musical communication on a fundamental, germinal plateau.
Rarely will you hear the SEVEN meter played with such ease and grace. These dudes breathe in unison.
Miguel solos ... the transcendent head returns and out.
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