Discover "Abend" by Anja Mohr Trio on Intuition label. Mesmerizing piano melodies blend jazz, classical & world music.

Increasingly, European jazz is defined by piano trios. Alongside all the Esbjörn Svenssons and Marcin Wasilewskis, rising piano trios have a harder and harder time finding their own niche. Not so Anja Mohr, a young pianist from Hamburg. When she formed her trio with Willi Hanne and Andreas Edelmann in late 2004, she had no idea a piano trio boom lay just ahead. She simply let her own intuition drive her and didn't let it deter her when new trio albums began flooding the market daily.
Naturally the cover versions strike one first. Anja Mohr's way of treating jazz classics is provocative. No matter whether she is tackling Afro Blue, which is associated with John Coltrane, Miles Davis's Tutu, or the pop oldie Georgy Porgy by Toto, she transcends the usual procedures in jazz, in which a piece is either dissected and put back together or the musicians just improvise over the changes. She takes the piece as a whole and causes it to be heard through her ear in a new way. She herself calls this principle 'reharmonization.' Tutu remains unmistakably Tutu, and yet, for all one's respect for Miles Davis, while listening to the piece it is scarcely possible to imagine that it was ever played differently. The risk that she might be thought arrogant vis-à-vis the great monuments of jazz history is one she self-confidently ignores. She sees every risk as an opportunity as well.
If comparisons are possible at all, then perhaps a certain spiritual relationship with the young Herbie Hancock. Anja Mohr's obsession with catchy, familiar melodies, the self-confidently rolling grooves, the impressionist temperament with a powerful palette, and her dancing spirituality recall Hancock's albums of the 1960s.

Track Listing

• Abend
• Afro Blue
• How Deep Is The Ocean
• Cloche
• Tutu
• Georgy Porgy
• Beschneide Keine Pflanze, Die Im Begriff Ist Zu Wachsen
• Night Dreamer
• Schnipsel

Additional Details

Label: INTUITION

Genre: Jazz

Language: English

Run Time: 55:18 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 09/26/25

UPC: 750447342224