Benedikt Jahnel

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Benedikt Jahnel at the concert of his trio on JazzBaltica on June 25, 2016

Christoph Benedikt Jahnel (born May 28, 1980 in Saint-Martin-d'Hères , France) is a German jazz musician (piano, composition) and mathematician .

Live and act

Jahnel grew up in Upper Bavaria and started playing the piano at the age of ten. He first received classical lessons before he discovered jazz. During school he founded his own bands, from which Max von Mosch , Benny Schäfer and Andi Haberl developed into the band max.bab in 1999 , which won several competitions and has remained unchanged to this day. Jahnel became a member of the Bavarian State Youth Jazz Orchestra and the Federal Jazz Orchestra . He studied jazz piano at the Universität der Künste Berlin with Hubert Nuss and David Friedman and at City College New York with John Patitucci , Garry Dial , Clarence Penn , Kenny Werner and Jean-Michel Pilc .

With max.bab he has released seven albums so far. Since 2002 he has also been part of the also permanent formation Cyminology , with which he has received several awards, has released six albums and has performed many appearances at home and abroad. He also founded his own trio in 2005 with Antonio Miguel (bass) and Owen Howard (drums), whose second and third albums he released on ECM Records . The Deutschlandfunk-JazzFacts-Portrait characterized the sound in the portrait on the occasion of the third album of the trio as characterized by "impressionistically colored sounds and solid grooves".

With Peter Ehwald he led a double quartet (published in 2008 by Konnex Records ). He also played with the Prana Trio New York and the Matteo Sabatini Quartet . He also worked with Rich Perry , Phil Woods , Ack van Rooyen , Johannes Enders , Charlie Mariano , David Friedman , Frank Möbus , Wolfgang Muthspiel , Dave Liebman , John Abercrombie , Clarence Penn , Henning Sieverts , Bart van Lier , Kate McGarry and Martin Stegner . He also composed for his band Das Kaktus 6tett , the Metropole Orkest and for Max Frankl .

Jahnel completed his doctorate in mathematical physics on Gibbs measures in 2014 at the Ruhr University Bochum . Since 2015 he has been a research assistant 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 spreads in random graphs , and mobile ad-hoc networks. The book Probabilistic Methods in Telecommunications , which he wrote together with Wolfgang König , was published in 2020 .

Discographic Notes

With the Benedikt Jahnel Trio
  • Modular Concepts , (Material Records 2008)
  • Equilibrium , ( ECM 2012)
  • The Invariant , ( ECM 2017)
With the cactus 6tett
  • The cactus 6tett, (Embab 2006)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Calculation and empathy The pianist, composer and mathematician Benedikt Jahnel , Deutschlandfunk JazzFacts from April 6, 2017
  2. ^ Entry Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ Web presence at the Weierstrass Institute
  4. ↑ Entries in the arXiv preprint repository. Retrieved August 11, 2020 .
  5. ^ Benedikt Jahnel, Wolfgang König: Probabilistic Methods in Telecommunications (=  Compact Textbooks in Mathematics ). Birkhäuser Basel, 2020, ISBN 978-3-03036089-4 ( springer.com [accessed August 11, 2020]).
  6. ↑ ECM 2251. ECM Records, accessed on August 27, 2019 (English).
  7. ^ John Fordham: Benedikt Jahnel Trio: Equilibrium - review. In: The Guardian . January 10, 2013, accessed on August 27, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Benedikt Jahnel Trio: The Invariant Mathematik und Jazz-Piano , review of the album on Deutschlandradio Kultur on January 30, 2017, accessed April 6, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Jahnel, Benedict
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jahnel, Christoph Benedikt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician (piano, composition) and mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Martin-d'Hères