Hot and Free. A Dialogue Across Generations. The Vincent Meissner Trio in Conversation with Joachim Kühn.

A Dialogue Across Generations. The Vincent Meissner Trio in conversation with Joachim Kühn.

Vincent Meissner Trio

• Vincent Meissner – piano
• Josef Zeimetz – bass
• Henri Reichmann – drums

Leipzig-based pianist Vincent Meissner is one of the most exciting voices on the young German jazz scene. He first drew attention with his debut album *Bewegtes Feld*; the albums *Wille* and *Eigengrau* cemented his reputation as an exceptionally original musician. Numerous awards—including the Concert Prize at the Jazzopen Stuttgart, the German Jazz Union’s Promotion Prize, and the Central German Jazz Prize—mark his career.

Together with Josef Zeimetz (bass) and Henri Reichmann (drums), Meissner approaches Joachim Kühn’s work not as a tribute in the classical sense, but as a living musical dialogue. His compositions are taken up, developed further, and reinterpreted from a contemporary perspective.

The concert thus builds a bridge between the pioneers of German jazz from the 1950s to the 1970s and a new generation of musicians who do not merely preserve this music but continue to develop it. The concert demonstrates that jazz knows how to reinvent itself across generations without forgetting its origins.

• SUPPORTED BY THE LOTTO FOUNDATION BERLIN