Julia Hülsmann Trio – Sooner And Later. 2017 : ECM.

This is the newest release by pianist Julia Hulsmann, with a trio that includes bassist Marc Muellbauer and drummer Heinrich Kobberling.  It’s the first album I’ve checked out by Hulsmann, and I’d be lying if I said the Radiohead cover on here (All I Need) wasn’t a part of my reasoning for checking it out.  The style of this album is somewhere between the classic ECM piano sound (see Tord Gustavsen, for example) and Brad Mehldau (and not just because of the presence of a Radiohead cover).  There are a lot of slow tracks with plenty of space, but there’s also some of the more upbeat, driven tracks like you’d hear on one of Mehldau’s studio albums.  My favorite tracks were Soon and You and You, and I did enjoy the All I Need cover pretty well as well.

Julia Hülsmann - #piano Theo Bleckmann - voice #electronics Hayden Chisholm - alto sax Moritz Baumgartner - drums