Manfred Junker Organ Trio - Look Out! (MOCHER MUSIC 2018)

She has always been at the top of his wish list, the trio setting with guitar, organ and drums. After several years of intensive work predominantly as a soloist and in duo formations, MANFRED JUNKER, who is now one of the veterans of the German jazz guitar scene, made nails with heads last year, put together a wonderfully harmonious triumvirate and simply arranged a studio date with us. With LOOK OUT! He now presents the result, a breezy-elegant recording of ten original compositions written especially for the newly launched band. With Elisabeth Berner on the organ and Tony Renold on drums, the MANFRED JUNKER ORGAN TRIO celebrates all varieties of this multi-faceted line-up, alternating between sophisticated composition and imaginative improvisation, massive density and sparkling transparency, lyrical melancholy and a catchy groove. A trio like a quartet: two lead soloists, bass (Berner also plays foot bass on the organ) and drums. And how well, almost blindly, the three musicians understand human and musical, was also immediately in the studio shown: in an extremely relaxing for all participants Recordingsession was an album of more than an hour of playing time including video production within one and a half days "in the box ".

Manfred Junker studied at the St. Gallen Jazz School and was a fellow at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he was influenced by teachers such as Hal Crook, Ed Tomassi, Rick Peckham and Jim Kelly. He teaches in Switzerland and performs regularly with his bands, with John Stowell as a duo and as a soloist and sideman. "Look Out!" Is his thirteenth CD production under his own name.

Elisabeth Berner is a classically trained organist and dedicates herself to the jazz improvisation on the church organ in her artistic projects. At the University of Music Basel, she is a lecturer in school piano practice and improvisation.

Tony Renold has been on stage as a sensitive percussionist for over 40 years together with musicians such as Franco Ambrosetti, Dieter Ilg, David Liebman, Kenny Drew, Wolfgang Muthspiel and Jimmy Woody on stage and in the studio at home. Like few drummers he knows how to empathically record the fever curve of the expressivity of his fellow musicians. Renold is a professor of drums at the Zurich University of the Arts.