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Johannes Bigge - Piano
Robert Lucaciu - Bass
Moritz Baumgärtner - Drums

Founded in 2010 and awarded with the Leipziger Jazznachwuchspreis der Marion Ermer Stiftung in 2012 the Johannes Bigge Trio has gained its place among the ambitious young German piano trios in the course of many years of playing, two successful album releases and numerous concerts on club and festivals stages as well and has delevoped its own musical language, a strong unique bandsound and a blind understanding and interplay and with these features represents the young and growing Leipzig jazz scene, that in the last years has brought up many musically independent projects and bands and is becoming a new important center for jazz in Germany.

In his music Johannes Bigge combines influences ranging from The Bad Plus and Brad Mehldau, Radiohead and Genesis to Alexander Skrjabin with the idea to also adress an audience that is interested in music but not jazz-educated in a special sense.
The compositions are sometimes songlike and compact, sometimes widespread and athmospheric, full of sudden changes of mood and melodies with potential to stick in your ear.
The trio experiments with known forms and formats, that the listeners ear can connect to, even if the content is new or different and thus tries to expand the limits of the hearable.
Over the years the three musicians have developed their own bandsound, in which Johannes’ colorful, soft to cristalline piano sound, Moritz’ orchestrating and energetic drum play and Roberts grounding yet mobile bass blend zu a new group sound.
The trio plays with force and playfulness in one moment, with gentleness and the courage for simple beauty in the next, with a richness of melodies and harmonic colors and also just the joy of making music together.

After PEGASUS (2016) and IMAGO (2018) the release of CLAY in 2024 will be the third album on swiss label nWog-Records.
The 11 compositions on CLAY were written during the corona years and have been developed and brought into form by the three musicians in a process of constant composing and rehearsing - like a piece of clay that little by little becomes a sculpture. Referring to this image also the music is about the transition from an idea to the concrete thing and the process, when an inner image slowly takes shape and turns into something real in the end.

aka THE WILDBUNCH kommen ursprünglich aus den goldenen 90ern des Underground Hip Hop. Inspiriert von Oldschool bis Trueschool Raps und Breaks haben sich die Beiden Beat für Beat an 4 to the Floor Tanzmusik herangetastet. Minimales Geklicker und Gefrickel haben sie dabei aber mal eben galant übersprungen: „Flavour in your ear“ ist hier die Punchline und Ethno, Soul und Funk die Basis. Alles aber immer mit der dringend nötigen deepness!

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