Michel Meis 4tet
After the success of their albums Lost in Translation (2019) and Kaboom (2021), the latter with French violinist Théo Ceccaldi as a guest musician, the quartet around the Luxembourg drummer Michel Meis is back with their third opus Lollipop Moment.
The record features three new compositions that are embedded in a freely improvised session. The musicians remain Meis’s usual fellows: Alisa Klein on trombone, Cédric Hanriot on piano and Stephan Goldbach on double bass. In contrast, the instrumentation moves towards a more electronic sound with the addition of synthesizers and effects.
While improvisation is the common thread of the album, the new hybrid acoustic-electronic sound enhances the band’s sonic spectrum and underlines the band’s career-spanning explosive, edgy, and slightly provocative character.
Through its diverse moods and complex yet never arbitrary structures, Lollipop Moment offers music that is as elaborate as it is spontaneous, giving jazz a fresh touch by breaking down genre boundaries.
Kaboom (feat. Théo Ceccaldi)
She
Red Desert Air
Alisa Klein – trombone
Cédric Hanriot – piano
Stephan Goldbach – double bass
Michel Meis – drums
Feat. Théo Ceccaldi – violin
Concerts can be played with and without Ceccaldi
[Michel Meis] gives jazz a fresh touch by modernising it with electro beats, navigating between compositions, improvisation and experimentation.
Jazz News (FR)
A flirt with ever-changing forms of energy, bound in a jazz setting, but driven by the crossover of attitudes.
Jazz thing (DE)
Post-modern jazz with an electro-pop flavour.
Citizen Jazz (FR)
Wonderful contemporary jazz.
Concerto (AT)
[About Kaboom] An album full of contrasts, a masterpiece of lively and versatile jazz
Rolling Stone (FR)
A heterogeneous yet coherent ensemble.
Jazz Magazine (FR)
[About Lost in Translation] An instrumental gem.
Midwest Records (US)
Modern and experimental jazz that manages to be bold without falling into incomprehensibility.
Le Jazzophone (FR)
Selection of past shows
B-Flat Berlin (DE), Blues ‘n Jazz Rallye Luxembourg (LU), Budapest Music Center/Opus Jazz Club (HU), Donau115 Berlin (DE), inJazz Rotterdam (NL), Jammin’ Juan (FR), Jazz à Juan (FR), Jazzrally Düsseldorf (DE), Jazz Station Brussels (BE), Kazzwoo Mannheim (DE), Like A Jazzmachine Festival Dudelange (LU), Luxembourg Jazz Meeting (LU), Nancy Jazz Pulsations (FR), Neimenster Luxembourg (LU), Odessa Jazz Fest (UA), Opderschmelz Dudelange (LU), Philharmonie Luxembourg (LU), Ploiesti Jazz Festival (RO), Sound of Europe Ankara (TR), Speicher Bad Homburg (DE), Sunset-Sunside Paris (FR), Tonne Dresden (DE), Trifolion Echternach (LU), Unterfahrt Munich (DE), Vinnytsia Jazz Festival (UA), ...
Lollipop Moment
2023
Alisa Klein – trombone & effects
Cédric Hanriot – piano, rhodes & synthesizer
Stephan Goldbach – double bass & synthesizer
Michel Meis – drums & effects
Kaboom
Double Moon/Challenge Records
2021
Alisa Klein – trombone
Cédric Hanriot – piano
Stephan Goldbach – double bass
Michel Meis – drums
Guest: Théo Ceccaldi
Lost in Translation
Double Moon/Challenge Records
2019