Emotional Reality

In 2018, Janning Trumann released the first album with his New York band. As part of a German tour, the quartet also performed at the Cologne studio club Loft; without further ado, Trumann booked the day before the evening's performance to record the tracks that can now be heard on Emotional Reality. Additional stimulus for intensive interactions was provided by virtuoso pianist Simon Nabatov, who celebrated his premiere in this formation. With Emotional Reality, Trumann describes his individual assessment of everyday interactions and makes reference to illusory worlds into which people sometimes take refuge. "In general, I express thoughts and feelings in music through energy," Trumann explains. "What concerns me in Emotional Reality is, among other things, the phenomenon of cultivating personal emotional reality in a communication bubble. After a while, the identification with general values decreases, and at the same time the tendency to polarize increases." The musical result of these reflections is a contemporary jazz that balances between form and outburst, between contemplation and powerful rebellion. The band's distinctive sound results from the trombonist's playful flexibility and expressiveness and the multi-faceted timbres of all participants. Emotional Reality reflects Trumann's determined and thoughtful nature, in thoughtful and exciting compositions, remarkable stylistic will, and thrilling contrasts. With his distinguished band partners, Janning Trumann once again succeeds in convincingly transferring the freedom-loving spirit of jazz into the modern age.