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Contemporary Jazz
Florian Weber: Minsarah
| Germany
Booking-Agent:
Amaya Collantes
+49 30 261032927
ac@f-cat.de
The members of multi-national Trio Minsarah met in September 2000 while all three of them attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. The three youngsters developed an intense musical connection which produced an exceptionally unique and personal trio sound. Concerts in Germany followed, e.g. a performance at Detmold Concert Hall in 2002, a club tour in 2003, a concert at Cologne Jazz Night the same year and a performance at International Jazz Festival Viersen in 2004. The following year saw a trio tour in Florida, another three-week tour throughout Germany (among the highlights were Berlin, Hamburg, and Cologne) and a U.S. east coast tour including Washington D.C. and Boston. For summer 2006, another US tour and a tour in Japan are scheduled.
The word Minsarah is Hebrew and means "prism". Like a prism showing the colors in light, the trio goes for new sound colors and new ideas in band playing. A team of densely interacting improvisers, the three of them play with powerful and dramatic intensity, fresh lyricism, a sense of melody that is all their own and a great openness for improvisation and innovation. Their music transports ballad moods never heard before while at other times it provides structural experiments of high complexity. This is what the press wrote on first listening to Trio Minsarah: "A new discovery", "world-class", "the miracle of Cologne", "a first class trio", "vivid expression and strength".
Born in 1977 in Detmold/Germany, Florian Weber participated in both classical and jazz ensembles winning 1st prizes as a teenager. He toured as a soloist with the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, studied with Paul Bley, John Taylor, Richie Beirach a.o. and performed with Albert Mangelsdorff and Benny Bailey. In 2001 he was awarded the Steinway & Sons prize at the Montreux Jazz Festival Solo Piano Competition. Bass player Jeff Denson was born in 1976 in Arlington, Virginia and grew up in the Washington, D.C. area. He worked as a freelancer on the east coast and in Europe performing with Lee Konitz, Joe Lovano, Charlie Byrd, Kenny Werner a.m.o. He received the Berklee Outstanding Performer Award in 2002 and graduated with an M.M. from Florida State University in 2005. Born in Beer-Sheva/Israel in 1976, Ziv Ravitz started a professional career as a drummer at age 13. He performed with Joe Lovano, Hal Crook, Mick Goodrick, George Garzone, Lee Konitz a.m.o. and worked as house drummer at Camelot Jazz Club in Tel Aviv. He received the Zildjian Scholarship Award in 2003.
