Trio ELF

Trio Elf is one of the internationally most acclaimed German jazz groups. Trio ELF was just honored with the Bremen Jazz-Award 2016 and it’s the only band from Germany, that recently received a whole page in the American Downbeat, the most famous Jazz magazine in the world.

Trio Elf has truly re-invented the classic jazz piano trio in recent years by using grooves and sounds of contemporary club styles as a kickoff for improvisation. Their warm acoustic sound is augmented by the creative use of electronics.

Trio Elf's musical ease stems from melodies of an almost hymnic quality, dazzling rhythms und surprising dynamic shifts arising from a collective breathing of three equal voices. Critics both in Europe and Japan have hailed their inspired interplay.

Elf's third album "Elfland“ (enja) effectively features Brazilian vocal legend Milton Nascimento as a special highlight.

Gerwin Eisenhauer's virtuoso drumming sounds like a drum machine come alive. He freely improvises with drum'n'bass or hip-hop grooves like any legend of jazz drumming would do with the swing rhythm.

Walter Lang is one of Europe's most prestigious pianists and a celebrated star in Japan. His lyrically expressive melodies and energetic chords testify to his enormous musical versatility and creative spark.

Peter Cudek is internationally acclaimed for his unique virtuoso style on the acoustic bass. He effortlessly and instantly shifts from melodious counterpoint to deep synth-like grooves in the low register.

The hidden fourth member of Trio Elf is sound wizard Mario Sütel, who at times confronts the band with a sampled doppelganger by spontaneously cutting loops out of the flow of improvisation

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