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Benedikt Jahnel (geboren 28 mei 1980 in Geretsried) is een Duitse jazz-muzikant (piano, componist) en wiskundige.

Jahnel groeide op in Oberbayern en begon met piano spelen op de leeftijd van tien jaar. 
Hij studeerde eerste klassieke lessen voordat hij jazz ontdekte. Tijdens de schoolvakanties richtte hij zijn eigen bands op. 
Drummer Owen Howard leerde hij kennen toen deze gastdocent Kunst was op de Berlijnse Unversiteit waar hijzelf als wiskundige werkte.

Benedikt Jahnel Trio - The Invariant
by Peter Bacon, Thursday, February 16, 2017, on http://www.londonjazznews.com):

Piano trios seem to be easier to keep going and build a life together than bigger groups - to become, 
as German pianist Benedikt Jahnel says of his band with Spanish bassist Antonio Miguel and Canadian drummer Owen Howard, 
"a constant in a transformational period". In 2017 the band celebrates its tenth anniversary.

The Invariant is a fine celebration in itself. Eight tracks, all written by the pianist, and showing 
a marvellously bedded-in interplay between the players that helps them achieve that uncanny double effect 
for the listener of being both three individuals, each with their own musical personality, 
and yet also being one, united in their communal interpretation and expression of the music.

My favourite tracks on this album keep changing. At the moment it's Mirrors with its dense structure 
and perfectly controlled transitions through nine-and-a-half minutes. It feels like a classical piece in the thoroughness 
of the writing and in the romantic roundness and warmth of its theme, yet in performance it naturally acquires 
that elasticity and sense of change that only jazz musicians can give it.

Jahnel is, like quite a few modern musicians, also a scientist - he's a researcher at the Weierstrass-Institut Berlin 
and is particularly interested in "interacting particle systems in the context of probability theory", 
so it's perfectly natural to be quite mathematical in his compositions, with odd time metre and other complexities.

But the remarkable thing is that for the listener this doesn't sound like overly complicated music. 
Jahnel has an acute ear for melody and that sweetens any knotty pill embedded within these eight tracks. 
Exciting, playful, varied in mood, but with one overriding constant: yes, the invariant is real beauty.

http://www.benejahnel.de/

Release date: 13.01.2017
Label: ECM [ECM 2523]


Benedikt Jahnel - Piano
Antonio Miguel - Double Bass
Owen Howard - Drums

foobar2000 1.3.9 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2017-06-05 00:25:05

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Analyzed: Benedikt Jahnel Trio / The Invariant
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DR         Peak         RMS     Duration Track
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DR12      -0.53 dB   -17.95 dB      5:51 01-Further Consequences
DR12      -3.86 dB   -18.58 dB      5:14 02-The Circuit
DR14      -0.20 dB   -17.56 dB      9:32 03-Mirrors
DR13      -0.92 dB   -17.93 dB      3:50 04-Mono Lake
DR13      -0.20 dB   -14.90 dB      6:46 05-Part Of The Game
DR12      -1.52 dB   -17.65 dB      5:41 06-For The Encore
DR12      -1.15 dB   -17.81 dB      3:59 07-Interpolation One
DR12      -2.73 dB   -18.61 dB      4:50 08-En passant
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Number of tracks:  8
Official DR value: DR13

Samplerate:        96000 Hz
Channels:          2
Bits per sample:   24
Bitrate:           2824 kbps
Codec:             FLAC
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