Jazztrio MAP
Project “Jazztrio MAP”
Jazztrio MAP
Markus Stockhausen: trumpet, flugelhorn, piccolo trumpet (Germany)
Arild Andersen: double-bass (Norway)
Patrice Héral: percussion, drums (France)
For many years, the MAP trio, – Markus Stockhausen (trumpets), Arild Andersen (bass) and Patrice Héral (percussion) – have provided many surprises in addition to their border-crossing, lively and humorous style. One of these surprises happened two years ago, when they worked with Terje Rypdal – a musician who has influenced the world's jazz electric guitar sound.
The result was a new kind of music, which these four virtuosic artists presented successfully on their ECM publication KARTA and thereafter at many jazz festivals.
The verdict of the Frankfurter Rundschau (6th November 2001): "Markus Stockhausen and his celestial project KARTA provided a fulminant culmination to the [Berlin] Jazz Festival. With the two Norwegian familiars Terje Rypdal and Arild Andersen, and the young drummer Patrice Héral, he raised all genre barriers and gave the public the feeling of floating away on a magic carpet into a realm of the imagination."
And Christian Rentsch (Tages-Anzeiger, 6. November 2001) wrote: "The four musicians, who come from widely different stylistic areas inside jazz, play a clichée-less, daring music in which very little is fixed beforehand – a melody perhaps, a few agreements about the form and atmosphere, the rest is left to intuition – often getting them into very difficult situations. The unfettered rhythm group Andersen/Héral forces things forward in wild, eruptive arches of tension. Stockhausen's coldly shining trumpet lines, and Rypdal's sometimes noisy rock-jazz licks conglomerate and twist into adventurous sound and noise structures. After so much conventionality and backward-looking, this was at last a music which reflected some of the potential experience and excitement of current jazz. Music with visions."
MAP's music
There is much more that could be said about the trio's music. Here are just two further commentaries:
"An almost magical sound-world on the border between Jazz and New Music comes into existence when Markus Stockhausen blows into a trumpet or flugelhorn." (Roman Rhode; Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin)
This can be explained from the artist's biography, and from what Markus Stockhausen calls "Comprovisation": The music begins as a composition by Arild or Markus, but large parts are created at performance time.
The result has been described by another critic as follows: "The three offered a fireworks of excellent instrumental technique. The communication between the musicians was unusually dense, helping the individual musicians to surpass themselves. If the modes of performance occasionally drifted apart, the power of homophony came rondo-like to seal the beauty of a musical unity. ... It was contemporary music of a special kind. A ball-game of wandering ideas, sometimes of triumphal beauty, a pleasure for both musicians and public." (Peter Zacher, Sächsischen Zeitung, 27.04.1998)
Bildkompositionen aus Licht, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle – Rolf...
From the project Klangvisionen (Visions of Sound):
Project info
Biography:
M. Stockhausen
Arild Andersen
Patrice Héral
Photos for the media:
M. Stockhausen
Arild Andersen
Patrice Héral
Concert dates:
M. Stockhausen