BENNY LACKNER TRIO, New York, NY; Berlin, Germany

Presenting singularly expressive jazz, embellished with slight electronic augmentation and drum programming, The Benny Lackner Trio is anything but typical.
Functioning as a collective, with each member interjecting equally toward the construction of their material, the trio’s music is unfailingly intricate and multifaceted. While their unique compositions and renditions of jazz standards are remarkably sophisticated and challenging, it is in their unconventional interpretation of contemporary pop hits—by such diverse artists as Prince, Bjork and Jimi Hendrix—that The Benny Lackner Trio reveals its virtuosity. Through abstraction these songs become new, untainted works of art, made complete through a marriage of musical traditions, which shake the dust from jazz and bring it into the light, revitalized and emancipated.

2009 TOUR DATES:
February 25th, 2009
Benny Lackner / Mario Franco Duo
Fabrica Braco de Prata, Lisboa, Portugal
February 26th, 2009 Benny Lackner / Andre Fernandes Duo, Espaço das 7 às 9 in Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisboa, Portugal
February 27th, 2009 Benny Lackner with Nelson Cascais Group at Onda Jazz, Lisbon, Portugal
March / April 2009 BHM CD Release Tour (tba)
March 1st, 2009 Benny Lackner Trio at JAIL - Jazz in Luxembourg
May 22nd, 2009 Benny Lackner Trio at Yarbird Suite, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada