Crinale – record release
The album Crinale was recorded at Zentrifuge Studio, Berlin, Dec., 14th 2024, by the pianist Tommaso Vespo, the bassist Ben Lahmann and the drummer Martial Frenzel.
They never played before as a trio even played together as members of the Berlin Improvisers Orchestra.
The music is totally improvised.
The mixing and the photo cover are by Tito Knapp.
The album is released on https://tommasovespo.bandcamp.com/album/crinale
TOMMASO VESPO, Italian jazz pianist, active in the Italian and European free music scene; member of various groups and orchestras with which he has played in festivals in NY, London, Vienna and Italy; he has to his credit recordings as leader and member; since 2013 he has been member of Berlin Improvisers Orchestra.
BEN LEHMANN, bassist, born in Berlin in 1990, is an active mainstay of Berlin`s young, modern Jazz scene. He plays together with leading improvisors across different generations in German Free Jazz, as well as in varying formations which focus on his own and bandmates‘ compositions. Exemplary are his musical collaborations with Christof Thewes, Henrik Walsdorff, Rudi Mahall, Jan Roder, Anna Kaluza, Paul Engelmann, Martial Frenzel, Florian Müller, Hartmut Oswald, Jan Leipnitz, Johannes Barthelmes and many more. He’s a member of the BerIO.
MARTIAL FRENZEL, drummer, he studied jazz at the University of Saarland and became part of the Saarbrucken jazz scene, playing in various ensembles as well as in the jazz rock trio HUL (Discoboys, 2011). Moved to Berlin, he works regularly with Christof Thewes (in the quartet and big band) and in various groups as Hydropuls, Fase IV, Quartetto Pazzo with Rudi Mahall, among others. He’s a member of the BerIO.
