Benny Lackner

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Benny Lackner (* 1976 in Berlin ) is a German-American jazz musician ( piano , keyboards and electronics, composition ).

Live and act

Lackner grew up as the son of a German mother and an American father in Berlin; at the age of 13 he moved with his parents to California and studied there for a bachelor's degree at the California Institute of the Arts . 1997/98 followed studies with the pianist Brad Mehldau , who became his mentor. Then he lived in other cities until he came back to Berlin at the age of 30.

In 2002 he founded a trio in New York that still exists today with Jerôme Regard on double bass and Matthieu Chazarenc, which recorded several albums and toured worldwide; it played at festivals in Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte as well as at the North Sea Jazz Festival , the Montreux Jazz Festival , the Traumzeit Festival , the Viersen Jazz Festival and the American Jazz Festival in Paris. and that at Berlin Xjazz . He also appeared in solo concerts, in a duo with Paul Frick, was a member of the New York band Maroon and worked with Billy Higgins , Marc Ribot , Brad Shepik and Pheeroan akLaff .

Lackner's current (2019) trio album Drake is a homage to the singer-songwriter Nick Drake , whose harmonies some of the pieces are based on. He can also be heard on albums by the formations Monkbeatz ( Ugly Beauty 2016) and Communion around João Lencastre, as well as on the new version of Peer Raven's radio opera Tod in New York .

Discographic notes

  • Not the Same ( Nagel-Heyer 2003)
  • Sign of the Times (Nagel-Heyer 2004)
  • Pilgrim (BHM-Music 2007)
  • Bernard , Emer , Lackner, Ferber Night for Day (BJU 2008)
  • Cachuma (BHM – Music 2012)
  • Drake (Ozella 2019)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Drake (review)
  2. ↑ a b The Benny Lackner Trio with their new album "Drake": Arrived in the Trio der Ruhe Deutschlandfunk Kultur , April 9, 2019
  3. ↑ Portrait (O-Tone)
  4. ↑ Maroon at Allmusic (English)
  5. ↑ Meeting (Jazzthing)
personal data
SURNAME Lackner, Benny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American jazz musician (keyboards, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin