Max Petersen Trio
The trio around the pianist Max Petersen takes its listeners into a rich world of different musical influences where classical and modern sounds harmonize, and groove and swing fill our bodies with emotion. Unexpected turns, charged rhythms, elegant melodies, new sounds, polyphony, groove and beat turn a concert with this trio into an unexpected, acoustic experience.
Three musicians with experience, courage and trust give this band brilliance and musical maturity. The pianist’s compositions give the trio room for free playing and interpretation, making each moment unique. Thus they wander through different musical settings, from jazz, swing and creative African-American music to 20th century classical music and the melancholy of German Romanticism.
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Divine Traces
Max Petersen – piano
Kolja Legde – double bass
Fabian Arends – drums
The trio loves to go where the conditioned listening habits don't expect it [and] manages to constantly shift the boundaries of its eight exciting compositions, which meander back and forth between the African-American tradition, modern classical music, polyphony, free jazz and the melancholy of German romanticism.
Jazz thing (DE)
Group improvisations of an astounding maturity. [...] A very successful recording with an excellent sound that reinterprets the classical piano trio in a contemporary way.
Jazzpodium (DE)
Songs with brilliant improvisations. Max Petersen demonstrates with an exciting polyphony, sparkling chords, haunting cadenzas or elegant melodies his special and individual approach to music.
Concerto (AT)
A top-class jazz album. [...] Max Petersen plays the piano like a mixture of an experienced musician and tinkerer, of an entertainer and a free spirit. His technical brilliance is breathtaking.
Kulturtipp Zürich (CH)
Max Petersen takes his listeners with him in a rich world of different musical influences.
Rhein Main Magazin (DE)
Selection of past shows
B-Flat Berlin (DE), Birdseye Basel (CH), Esse Musicbar Winterthur (CH),E-Werk Freiburg (DE), Jazz Downtown Konstanz (DE), Jazzherbst Konstanz (DE), Jazz in Dübendorf (CH), Jazzstudio Nürnberg DE), Kiste Stuttgart (DE), Lebewohlfabrik Zurich (CH), Mehrspur Zurich (CH), Montreux Jazz Festival (CH), Moods Zurich (CH), Neimënster Luxembourg (LU), Terminus Saarbrücken (DE), ...
LiberA
2021
Max Petersen – composition, piano, harpsichord
Song Yi Jeon – vocals
Cosima Bodien – violin
Isabel Gehweiler – cello
Kolja Legde – double bass
Fabian Arends – drums, modular synth
Divine Traces
QFTF
2019
Max Petersen – piano
Dominique Girod – double bass
Fabian Arends – drums
Mixtape series
2017
Max Petersen – piano
Dream Dancing
Unit Records
2016
Max Petersen – piano
Lukas Traxel – double bass
Jimmy Macbride – drums
Introducing
2015
Max Petersen – piano
Lukas Traxel – double bass
Jimmy Macbride – drums
The Jam – Fronde
2014