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Benny Lackner

Born in Berlin to an american father and a german mother, Benny Lackner, moved to California at the age of 13. He received his BFA from the California Institute of the Arts under the direction of Charlie Haden and David Roitstein. From 1997-1998 he studied privately with his mentor, pianist Brad Mehldau. He has performed at numerous jazz festivals including the North Sea Jazz Festival, Montreux and Monterey. He has worked with artists such as the late Billy Higgins, Marc Ribot, Brad Shepik, Pheeroan akLaff and is now residing in NYC and Berlin where he is working with his internationally touring trio as well as a sideman and composer.

Dan McClenaghan's Best Jazz Albums Of 2023

by Dan McClenaghan
December 6, 2023

The top jazz recordings of the year in the order (more or less) that they came in the door. Concerning the recorded jazz offerings in in 2023, we could quote Frank Sinatra singing Ervin Drake's lyrics in the 1966 Grammy winner: “It was a very good year." It is difficult to pick a favorite. These are ...

Last Decade

By Benny Lackner

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Where Do We Go From Here; Circular Confidence; Camino Cielo; Hung Up On That Ghost; Last Decade; Remember This; Open Minds Lost; Emile; My People.

Drake

By Benny Lackner

Label: Ozella Music
Released: 2019
Track listing: I Told You So; Rise To The Occasion; Here To Stay; Decompression; Tears; Good Stuff; It's Gonna Happen; Entwurzelt; Drake; Yorke; Choral.

Benny Lackner Trio: Drake

by Dan McClenaghan
May 7, 2019

Pianist Benny Lackner was born in Germany, but moved to the United States at thirteen years of age. He spent his formative years in California, and received his BFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Studies with pianist Brad Mehldau followed. Then, at thirty years of age, Lackner returned to Berlin from his adopted New ...

Siskiyou

By Benny Lackner

Label: Unit Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: The 4th Member; Cygnet Committee; Palau; Sugarman; The Garden; Heart Racer; Song For Lucia; Siskiyou; Name Dropper.

Benny Lackner Trio: Siskiyou

by Dan McClenaghan
June 9, 2015

The photo on the main page of Benny Lackner's website shows the pianist with one hand on an acoustic piano, the other plying the keys of a laptop computer. That's where his muse has taken him-into a very contemporary electro/acoustic piano trio mix with drummer Matthieu Chazarec and bassist Jerome Regard. Siskiyou is Lackner's  ...

Cachuma

By Benny Lackner

Label: BHM Productions
Released: 2012
Track listing: I Can Do Whatever I Want; Lola's Dance; Imren; Coming Down; Cachuma; Pianohaus; Find Your Place; Brooklyn/Berlin; Elephant Woman; Yulia; The Baltic.

Benny Lackner Trio: Cachuma

by Dan McClenaghan
February 1, 2012

Pianist Benny Lackner can do whatever he wants, and says as much with “I Can Do Whatever I Want," the opener on his forward-leaning Cachuma. This piano trio outing suggests he wants to nudge the trio setting into a modern groove while giving voice to his own artistic vision.Modernization of the tried and true ...

Night for Day

By Will Bernard

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2008
Track listing: 01. Chicken Pox (Bernard); 02. Transkei (Lackner/Perkins); 03. Waltz (Emer); 04. Dry Tortugas (Bernard); 05. Heaven (Strayhorn); 06. Pianohaus (Lackner); 07. Nothing to See (Bernard); 08. Coming Down (Lackner/Emer); 09. Snow (Emer); 10. Cachuma (Lackner).