Michael Wollny Trio - in concert: Klangspuren (Live in Hamburg) (2016)

Live concerts by the Michael Wollny Trio are always experiences to be treasured. These three ideally matched musicians never fail to find fascinating new directions for the music, or to take the listener by surprise. At the end of October 2015, when Wollny, Weber und Schaefer were setting off on a Karsten Jahnke JazzNights tour, taking in fourteen German cities, the respected German broadsheet the Süddeutsche Zeitung gleefully quipped: “Wollny's off on tour. Just get yourselves there. Awesome!” These hopes and expectations were duly fulfilled. After the tour was over, the critic of the same newspaper wrote: “Wollny has the audience in the palm of his hand, he's testing the boundaries of virtuosity, you start wishing that the buzz of the concert will never end.” These heartfelt words will have resonated with more than 10,000 people who attended the concerts of this much-lauded tour.

“Klangspuren” captures the sight and the sound of two quite exceptional performances by Wollny's new trio. This set also serves to demonstrate the leaps and bounds by which the group has progressed artistically in the past two years.

Tracklist:

1. Questions In A World Of Blue
2. De Desconfort
3. Motette No. 1
4. White Moon
5. Der Wanderer
6. Nacht
7. When The Sleeper Wakes
8. Nachtfarten
9. Arséne Somnambule

Personnel:

Michael Wollny / piano
Christian Weber / bass
Eric Schaefer / drums