Pirouet Records back again: New release! - Kenny Werner Trio - Animal Crackers (Release date: November 24th, 2017 Pirouet)

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After a year of absence Pirouet Records will release some more albums. Starting with the Kenny Werner Trio in late November there will follow some more highlights and great records by great musicians in the next year. We will keep you up-to date.

Animal Crackers: The Kenny Werner Trio opens up a box of tasty musical surprises 18 years together, three consummate storytellers, pianist Kenny Werner, bassist Johannes Weidenmüller and drummer Ari Hoenig, create an incisive masterpiece of spontaneous discovery.

Kenny Werner has long been a major force on the New York scene. The Village Voice hailed him "… an ebullient stylist" whose solos "…become wooly rides into the darkness", The New York Times described him as "a pianist who tempers fearsome technique with a questing spiritualism", and Quincy Jones called him "360 degrees of soul and science in one human being". Werner and saxophonist Joe Lovano have been trading chairs as leader and sideman since the early 1980s, and in the 90s, Kenny began a long-term musical relationship with Toots Thielemans. He has garnered four National Endowment for the Arts grants, received a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship award, and has been commissioned to compose for orchestras throughout Europe and the USA.
Ari Hoenig is a musician who conjures a fascinatingly melodic sound on the drums. Hoenig won the prestigious 2013 BMW World Jazz Award with his own band, and has played with jazz giants Joe Lovano, Pat Metheny, and Wynton Marsalis. In 1991 bassist Johannes Weidenmüller left Cologne, Germany to make the move to New York. Since then he has worked with a number of world-renowned players, including Randy Brecker, George Benson, and Joshua Redman. Werner reflects that Ari and Johannes have been in his trio since 1999: "They were just kids and they would come around my home in New Jersey to play whenever I wasn't on tour. They could play my music with such ease that they were creating on the tune while I was still trying to read it! That's what I like in a band – players that compose spontaneously rather than just solo all the time."

TOUR DATES
KENNY WERNER TRIO with ARI HOENIG and JOHANNES WEIDENMÜLLER

24/11/2017 Palermo, (IT) · PALERMO TEATRO POLITEAMA
and The PALERMO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
25/11/2017 Palermo, (IT) · PALERMO TEATRO POLITEAMA
and The PALERMO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

27/11/2017 Villa San Giovanni, (IT) - CLUB LA SOSTA
28/11/2017 Palermo, ITALY (IT) - CLUB AVANTGARDE
29/11/2017 Tolentino (Macerata), (IT) - TOLENTINO TEATRO POLITEAMA
30/11/2017 Verona, (IT) - TEATRO RISTORI
01/12/2017 Cento, (IT) - TEATRO LA PANDURERA
02/12/2017 TBA
03/12/2017 Muri, (CH) - MUSIC in the PFLEGIDACH
05/12/2017 München, (DE) - UNTERFAHRT
06/12/2017 London, (UK) - PIZZA EXPRESS
07/12/2017 Paris, (FR) - DUC des LOMBARDS
08/12/2017 Terneuzen, (NL) - PORGY and BESS

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