NEWS
July 31, 2010
Hello,
I hope you are all enjoying your summer. i am about to leave for Portugal again to play 2 shows with Tiago Bettencourt and Manta. Wanted to let you know that I am very excited about the fall touring schedule with my trio. Please check my date section for updates of concerts in Turkey, Spain, Luxembourg and Germany this fall 2010. Take care , Benny
April 2, 2010
Hello and welcome to my site.....i just finished a long trip to Portugal and West Germany and am now happy to be in Berlin for a few days. I am off to play with Ignaz Dinne and Hugo Antunes at a festival in Portugal called Jazzminde in Fatima, Portugal on April 10th....then planning my tours with my trio in June, September and October. Please check the date section for detailed info....
November 24, 2009
Hello and welcome to www.bennylackner.com. We are currently mastering our new album and planning a release tour in the spring 2010. Please contact us for more details.
July 30, 2009
July 29, 2009
just finished recording the new album and playing a live show every weekend...please visit www.myspace.com/bennylacknertrio for some new live tracks
July 4, 2009
July 4th 2009
just played a great show with Matthieu Chazarenc and Jerome Regards...it will be broadcast on the WDR 3 radio show soon.
April 3, 2009
Hey Friends, I have a new link to this incredible site that Spike Wilner at Smalls set up. http://beta.asoundstrategy.com/assiwebsites/site272/?itemcategory=30817&personDetailId=20
April 1, 2009
I am playing every Thursday at BAR TAUSEND with different bands in berlin starting April 16th and also starting to play at Klub Der Republik in Berlin. In May I go on tour again to Belgium and then have a few Festivals in germany in the summer...check my dates for more info...thanks, benny
March 4, 2009
Welcome to bennylackner.com
I just finished a small tour of Portugal and Luxembourg..here are a few pictures of my duo concert with Andre Fernandez....I had a great concert with Mario franco, and Nelson Cascais, Joao Lencastre and Andre Fernandez at Onda Jazz as well....then I played in Luxembourg with Teun Verbruggen and Nic Thys. Very nice bands....email me if you want some live samples of these shows.
to view some pictures, please visit Joao Dos Santos blogspot at http://www.jnpdi.blogspot.com
February 9, 2009
HELLO AND WELCOME TO WWW.BENNYLACKNER.COM
I recently had 3 major interviews in the most important german Jazz Magazines..Jazzthing, Jazzthetik and JazzPodium...if you speak german, send me a message and I will send you the reviews.I will add them to my press kit shortly.
October 13, 2008
Here are some recent live recordings
Imren - La Trama
Coming Down
Cachuma, 2008
October 10, 2008
The BLT's latest album, 'Pilgrim', is being released by the german label, BHM-Music at the end of october 2008...they are doing a mass mailing of cds and press as well as setting up interviews for me with 'Jazzthing' and other established music publications. Finally, the record will be available in stores in Europe. Im in germany right now about to go on a tour with Will Bernard, Andrew Emer and Teun Verbruggen / Rainer Winch. We will be playing in Spain, Germany and Greece in support of our new Album 'Night for Day' released on the Brooklyn Jazz Underground label in June 2008. On october 29th i am performing at the A-trane, berlin with Jonathan Robinson's Fat Dragon. Then, I am doing a wonderful play with Actor / Musician Oliver Urbanski at the Radial System on November 7th, 8th, 9th. The play is called 'Das letzte Weh' and is a dark comedy about a funeral band that slowly goes insane. Angela Winkler recorded a song for the play as well. After that, I am doing an evening of Marlene Dietrich songs with Eva Matthes in Baden-Baden
April 30, 2008
Here are some recent videos from The Hot Club in Lisbon.
Benny Lackner - Piano
Mathieu Chazarenc - Drums
Nelson Cascais - Bass
Coming Down/Mowgla
Let It Die, First
If Six Was Nine
February 21, 2008
I am in Europe right now working as a musical director for a play called "FREAKS" in Jena, Germany. Its fun as hell because i get to teach a bunch of actors how to play punk rock...something i have always wanted to do but never did because i was a "Jazz Musician". Then i am off to ireland to play with this great , young guitarist Mark Mcknight..hard and interesting music. Then I am in Portugal 3 times this year playing with David Binney and Joao Lencastre as well as Hugo Antunes and my band. Then I have to get to NYC for a CD release for a new band I am in with grammy nominated guitarist, Will Bernard and Andy Emer and Mark Ferber. Really good collective where we all contribute original material. After that, my trio will play festivals and clubs in Greece, Slovenia, Germany, Belgium, France in Matthieu Chazarenc's home town...he is a drummer from Paris that I have been playing with a lot..awesome guy and great drummer...on top of that I am doing some concerts with the German singer, Lisa Bassenge (who is on Universal Records). We are also recording a live record this year to document the trio's progress...will let you know more about that later. I am very excited about 2008...things are getting better every year. Please check back for updates soon...Benny
December 4, 2007
Hello Everyone, This Year we played shows in Germany, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, Slovenia, Slovakia, Check Republic, France, Ireland, California, Croatia, Austria and a final concert December 1st at the Blue Note in NYC. Next year is looking even busier and we will record a new album halfway through the year...probably a live record this time. Please keep checking my site for updates...best wishes for the new year, Benny
September 2007
The Benny Lackner Trio, just signed on with NYC based management company, Stray Dog Music (www.straydoghaus.com). They released their third record, Pilgrim April 2007 in NYC and the trio will be toured Europe in April, May and June of 2007 to promote the release as well as September, October, November 2007. They are playing the Blue Note NYC December 1st, 2007. they just headline Galway jazz festival ireland and are about to go to Spain, Portugal, Greece, Germany, Austria, Slovakia and Croatia.