Jazz at Green Room: Henning Sieverts Symmethree - "Blues"

Blues! Nothing but the blues! - that's the latest album from "Henning Sieverts Symmethree".

Since 2011 and on three albums so far, the virtuoso triumvirate has been exploring the dazzling beauty of symmetry.
This time, on album no. 4, everything revolves around the power of three chords and twelve bars.

But what do three and twelve mean: often there are more or sometimes fewer chords or bars ("Blues for Charlie"), sometimes bar after bar is snipped away and then stuck back on ("Salamiblues" or "Blues Diminishing").
Metric, melodic and harmonic gimmicks that bring new, distinctive beauty to the familiar blues sounds - without ever losing the archaic power of the blues.
Henning Sieverts - Symmethree" has never sounded so accessible.

Henning Sieverts is one of the most sought-after bassists and cellists in Europe with over 150 CD releases and concerts all over the world. He has won the ECHO Jazz, the "1st Prize" of the "International Society of Bassists" and - twice - the "New German Jazz Prize".

Ronny Graupe's (also German Jazz Award) masterful and unconventional playing on the 7-string guitar is appreciated by musicians as diverse as Wanja Slavin, Christian Lillinger and Rolf Kühn.

The unusual instrumentation of "Symmethree" with trombone, guitar and bass/cello allows for delightful, tonal fusions and constantly changing distribution of tasks: Everyone sometimes plays melody, sometimes bass function - in other words, grassroots music-making, as Henning Sieverts emphasizes: "We've been playing in this trio since 2011 and have had a lot of time to grow and develop together. Every concert is a pleasurable adventure in which we not only surprise the audience, but also ourselves!"</i