Jorn Swart is a spirited
up-and-coming jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, currently living and
performing in NYC. The Dutch pianist's refined playing and emotive compositions
have garnered him much recognition, here and abroad. In November, 2013 he
toured Europe to present his debut CD, A Day in the Life of Boriz, featuring
some of NYC's most thrilling and fearless jazz musicians. Swart now proudly
announces the release of his compelling new sophomore album, Malnoia, available
on Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records on May 26, 2017.
Malnoia is timeless and sophisticated, and reshapes the
concept of the traditional jazz piano trio. In replacing double bass and drums
with bass clarinet and viola, the project elegantly and creatively expands the
limits of what is possible within a "piano trio".
On Malnoia, Swart drew inspiration from classical composers
such as Maurice Ravel, Bela Bartok and Paul Hindemith, and combined them with
elements of jazz, creating an atypical sound that can be both lyrical and
nostalgic, and abstract and unpredictable. His melancholic themes suddenly turn
into unruly improvisations or sparkling romanticism.
The Malnoia trio, featuring Swart with Benni von Gutzeit (of
the Turtle Island Quartet) on viola, and Lucas Pino (whose "No Net
Nonet" has had a residency at Smalls Jazz Club for over three years) on
bass clarinet, possesses the ability to sweep the listener up in a
loving
musical experience that has been described as "hallucinogenic chamber
music".
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