Julian Hesse Trio - Troubleshooter (2021)

In the past years Munich based trumpet player and composer Julian Hesse has grown into a well-versed instrumentalist as well as a demanded sideman and soloist. He now presents his vision of a trio without a harmony-instrument and does what he does best: telling stories out of the moment.

His 2020 debut-album “Wheel of Life” with ingenious pianist Stephan Plecher proves that Julian is always looking for new ways and means to expand his musical message.

He now turns to the art of playing the trio and – together with Slovak bass player Peter Čudek and drummer Sebastian Wolfgruber – creates an individualistic sound while focusing on rhythmic interaction. Playing a kind of hypermodern hardbop the band celebrates the interdependency of strictness of form and the freedom within.

It doesn’t happen often that a trumpetplayer voluntarily chooses a trio without a harmony-instrument given the strenuous work one has to put in. But the renewed collaboration with Pirouet-Records mastermind Jason Seizer proves that Hesses’ sound and accuracy has grown substantially through his extensive studio-work and live-performances. Following his improvisational abilities one can actually hear a composer at work. After all, that’s what troubleshooting is аbout: creating musical solutions and ideas in an instant.