The classically trained pianist Jean-Paul Brodbeck has become a creative epicenter of the Swiss jazz scene and is one of the most significant voices of contemporary jazz beyond the national borders. Brodbeck has been involved in various formations over the years, developing an individual piano playing with a high degree of recognition that is deeply rooted in the jazz tradition, lyrically classical-romantic elements and characterized by delicate spontaneity. In 2007, he won international recognition with his trio album, Song Of Tchaikovsky. After an intensive creative phase with various international luminaries such as Johannes Enders, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Billy Hart and Andy Scherrer, and eight publications as a leader, Jean-Paul Brodbeck formed his Swiss trio together with young Basstalent Lukas Traxel and The drummer Claudio Strüby, who has been with drummer Brodbeck for ten years, on drums. After Jean-Paul Brodbeck's first release, A Different Mind at Enja-Records in 2012, the second trio of the collaboration will now be the trio, which will present their impressive debut album with Extra Time. Starting out from Brodbeck's songs, the virtuosic musicians, who are united in musical openness, celebrate an urgent ensemblematic approach, expanding the art form of the piano trio in a contemporary and fresh manner. Florian Keller writes in the liner notes: In dealing with the foundations of the jazz tradition, the three friends distill their musical essences and point out, with a sensuality of the pop, which is flickering in the songs, beyond pure traditionalism. In their modern, delicate trio-sound, they amalgamate centrifugal forces of classical romance and the groove of the seventies into a graceful sound body that moves elegantly through varied musical sceneries. This trio is a musical organism that moves on the gravitational force of the Schematic when it moves weightlessly in the vastness of the ballad, then with the same serenity smoothly sweep through hard-edged groove landscapes. Record Label: Yellowbird Style: Jazz