Arne Jansen, Anders Jormin , Uwe Steinmetz - The Pilgrimage (2024) [Hi-Res]

It must be considered a stroke of good fortune that these three musicians have come together: On double bass, the Swede Anders Jornim, one of the most important bass players on the European jazz scene with eight albums as bandleader for ECM and a packed artistic CV with tours and recordings alongside legends such as Elvin Jones, Albert Mangelsdorff, Joe Henderson, Lee Konitz and Kenny Wheeler. On guitar, Arne Jansen, the two-time "ECHO Jazz" award-winning Berliner, who has played with the Senegalese orchestra Baobab, Nils Landgren and Jazzanova and whose duo recording with Nils Wülker recently climbed to number 15 in the German pop charts. On saxophone, Uwe Steinmetz, who also lives in Berlin, has made a name for himself as a composer for the NDR Big Band and the Fitzwilliam String Quartet in addition to his collaborations with Joe Maneri and Tord Gustafvsen, among others. The German-Swedish trio performed for the first time in 2016 in the
Gothenburg Cathedral as part of a Nordic church music festival. It was immediately clear that there was a special connection between the three musicians. A similarity that is not often observed in this form, which also characterized the trio's joint tour in autumn 2022 - and especially the final concert in the Waldkirche on Timmendorfer Strand on October 22. It is no coincidence that the album created from the live recording is now entitled "The Pilgrimage".

Firstly, because it begins with "La Peregrinacion", a pilgrimage song by Argentinean and "Misa Criolla" composer Ariel Ramirez. Secondly, because Jansen, Jormin and Steinmetz trace the origins of a universal human phenomenon in their pieces, which move between jazz, classical music, Nordic and non-European folklore.

Arne Jansen: guitar
Anders Jormin: double bass
Uwe Steinmetz: alto & soprano saxophones

Tracklist:
1 La Peregrinación
2 He Who Counts The Stars
3 The Promise
4 Procession
5 Deep Wood
6 The Red Flower
7 New Flower
8 March
9 Sleep Safe And Warm
10 Peace of the Earth