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Arne Jansen Trio - Out Of My Tree - live at A-Trane - Jazzfest Berlin, 6.11.2008
dekanea film / Konstantinos Toubekis,
edited by Aletta von Vietinghoff

Arne Jansen Trio - "On The Shore" live at A-Trane - Jazzfest Berlin, 6.11.2008
dekanea film / Konstantinos Toubekis,
edited by Aletta von Vietinghoff

Arne Jansen Trio - "Release" live at Kato Berlin 2006
Video directed by Konstantinos Toubekis - dekanea film

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New CD-Release October 2008:

ARNE JANSEN TRIO: "YOUNGER THAN THAT NOW" (Traumton Records)

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In 2006 I put out my first album "My Tree" with my trio in January and another one with Firomanum "Scope" in April, both on Traumton Records in Berlin. I've been touring with the Australian band Naked Raven for about a year. In 2007 I've been spending more time on writing and playing my own music. In December 2007 we recorded a new trio-CD at the studio of Arne Schumann and Ioos Bach, which is going to be released in September 2008 on Traumton Records.

Here is a short info that went with the release of my first trio-CD "My Tree".

Born in Flensburg, ever since the begin of his studies at the UdK, University of Arts in 1996 he lives in Berlin. With his trio-colleagues, he doesn't only connect through the time they shared on college, but also through a long-term friendship and their common musical work as a trio for about five years now. Their interplay as equal partners is affected by intuitive interaction and intensity. With them he shares the enthusiasm for rock and pop music, as well as classical elements and the musical openness and diversity. Among Arne Jansens biggest influences are Mark Knopfler, Jimi Hendrix and John Scofield, as well as Jim Hall, Joe Pass, Wes Montgomery, Django Reinhardt, Bill Frisell, and John Abercrombie. When I get the feeling that a musician opens up and reveals something about himself, I enjoy listening. I like Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, U2, Pearl Jam, Eric Clapton, Sting, but also Messiaen, Gustav Mahler, Beethoven, Bach and Strawinsky. One of his favourite bands til today is Pearl Jam. The first CD Ten came out when I was 15 and blows my mind now as it did then.
In Arne Jansens case the diversity of his musical influences show in his sound. He laughs when he tells about with what an insistant enthusiasm he studied the soli of his role-models, that he found just ingenious when he was he teenager, and how many guitar strings were worn out when he was searching for the ultimate Hendrix-sound. Today, those intensively internalized experiences easily flow into his play. Ideas of how the music should sound and his love for analogue recordings made him record My Tree at the Bohus Sound Recording Studio in Sweden, where already the recordings for (em) took place. Very structured compositions, in which solo passages and improvisations never seem to be incoherent or optional, sophisticated melodica, lively improvisations, dynamic unisono play of guitar and bass carried by the adventurously versatile drumming of Eric Schaefer and warm lively sound chracteristics on My Tree melt into an impressively self-contained ensemble.
Far from forced Jazz Design concepts and modernistic trends , Arne Jansens Trio debut offers stirring Modern Jazz in the truest sense of the word.

"The debut album by German jazz guitarist Arne Jansen is recorded in the traditional power trio format, with the assertive bassist Eva Kruse and powerhouse drummer Eric Schaefer jockeying for position behind Jansen's leads. There's only occasional rock influences on My Tree, however, as on the moody, Schaefer-driven tune "Cielo Argento." Mostly, the album is in the northern European modern jazz tradition, with passages of free improvisation sitting comfortably within otherwise straightforward tunes. Despite the sonic differences due to the different instrumental lineup, fans of the Swedish neo-free jazz piano trio E.S.T. or their lesser American equivalent, the Bad Plus, will find My Tree conceptually similar, right down to Jansen's puckish cover of Pearl Jam's "Release" as the closing track." all music guide, Stewart Mason, 2006

For more information please visit arnejansen.com or traumton.de.

CDs are available on iTunes, eMusic or amazon.de as well as via mailorder from Traumton's site.

Traumton is also worth visiting on MySpace myspace.com/traumton

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