New Benjamin Lackner Quintet on ECM January 2025
BENJAMIN LACKNER piano
MATHIAS EICK trumpet
MARK TURNER sax
LINDA MAY HAN OH bass
MATTHIEU CHAZARENC drum
Quintet
His latest quartet album Last Decade (ECM) is a window into the present, in which the reminiscences of memory are certainly audible and tangible. Without copying anyone, the pianist and the members of his band connect to a lost aesthetic and transport their idea of an imaginary past confidently into the future. What sometimes sounds like an homage is ultimately a self-confident determination of where they stand.Benjamin Lackner’s ECM debut in 2022 was the kind of success one could only wish for: never-ending praise from the press and sold-out concerts almost everywhere as part of a 17-date Europe-wide release tour.
In March 2024, the musicians met in the ECM studio for the next album. And Benjamin Lackner was able to win over the world-class saxophonist Mark Turner and the multi-award-winning bassist Linda Oh for this, and you can hear what it sounds like live on the album release tour at the latest: January 10-26, 2025