Opening Jakob Bänsch

• 1 Opening 02:48
• 2 Partida 06:02
• 3 Yearning 05:31
• 4 Repression 06:55
• 5 Yearning (Variation II) 01:27
• 6 Under Stars 05:59
• 7 Kiss and Run 06:32
• 8 Yearning (Variation III) 02:09
• 9 Exosphere 07:21
• 10 Farewell 01:55
• Total Runtime 46:39

Info for Opening

With his debut album "Opening", the highly gifted trumpeter Jakob Bänsch emerges as a promising talent in jazz. The album impresses with Bänsch"s incredible technique, intonation and compositional variety and already reminds the US journalist Bill Milkowski of the debut of Wynton Marsalis.

Bänsch comes from a family of professional musicians and began playing the trumpet at the age of eight. As a young student with Bastian Stein at the HMDK Stuttgart and a member of the Bundesjazzorchester, he has made a name for himself in the field of jazz music. He has been a member of the Bundesjazzorchester since 2020 and started jazz trumpet at the HfMT Cologne one year later. The musician is also part of the WDR Young Composers Fellowship program and the Gutenberg Jazz Collective. As part of the Elbphilharmonie Jazz Academy, he was selected as a scholarship recipient and presented his music in the Elbphilharmonie"s Great Hall. Bänsch has already collaborated with established musicians* such as Melissa Aldana and Theo Croker, as well as playing in the bands of Wolfgang Haffner, Emil Mangelsdorff and Nils Landgren. Since 2022 he has been leading his own quartet, which won 2nd place at the Munich Jazz Prize. On "Opening", the musician is supported by a quartet, and the close collaboration between him and pianist Niklas Roever stands out in particular. The album represents Bänsch"s first major musical statement and brings together almost everything he has learned over the past 20 years. It is an intimate examination of the artist as a musician and a human being. A particular highlight on the album is the chamber jazz composition "Yearning," in which he is accompanied on flugelhorn by cello, viola and voice. Here the artist shows himself as a creator of moving music, in which the trumpet as an instrument is placed in the service of the greater whole - the music. For "Opening" there will be a tour, which will start in mid-March and will lead 4 months across Germany.

Jakob Bänsch, trumpet, flugelhorn
Niklas Roever, piano
Jakob Obleser, bass
Leo Asal, drums

Jakob Bänsch
grew up near Pforzheim and, as the child of professional classical musicians, began playing the trumpet at the age of eight.

In his initially classical career, he won, among other things, the 1st Federal Prize at Jugend Musiziert and played in the Baden-Württemberg State Youth Orchestra.

Since his early youth, Bänsch has also established himself as a jazz musician on the German scene. In 2018, he completed a junior degree in jazz trumpet at the HMdK Stuttgart and became a member of the Baden-Württemberg State Youth Jazz Orchestra.

In 2020, he became one of the youngest members of the Federal Jazz Orchestra since its founding. He was also a member of the WDR Young Composers Fellowship Program, Gutenberg Jazz Collective and the Elbphilharmonie Jazz Academy.

He has also worked closely with great musicians such as Nathan East, Emil Mangelsdorff, Wolfgang Haffner, Nils Landgren, Michael Abene and as a soloist with the WDR Big Band.

His latest project, the Jakob Bänsch Quartet, has existed since 2022. The classical roots are unmistakable in his compositions and create an unmistakable sound.

On April 28, 2023, Bänsch's debut album "Opening" was released on the "Jazzline" (DELTA Music) label, which caused a great stir in the German jazz scene.

He presented it with his quartet at the most famous German jazz festivals such as JazzOpen Stuttgart, Jazz Baltica and the Leverkusen Jazz Days.

"Opening" was awarded the German Jazz Prize in the "Debut Album of the Year" category in 2024.

"Sacredly good and incredibly talented" - Süddeutsche Zeitung

"His classical trumpet training is reflected in his impeccable mastery of his instrument" - Bill Milkowski

This album contains no booklet.