“Frank Woeste is the kind of musician who loves to give a helping hand (or in his case, both hands...) to those he works with. So music becomes a lesson: that listening comes before speaking, that empathy and respect are the norm. Playing with Frank encourages other musicians to reveal their best side; he shows us that a better world is possible!” Alex Dutilh (Open Jazz / France Musique)
When Frank Woeste's "Pocket Rhapsody" album was released in early 2016, the pianist earned a well-deserved place in the limelight. Here was a pianist who “doesn’t sound like anyone else out there at the moment" (London Jazz News) with a "style at once powerful, elegant, rousing and outlandish" (ARTE Metropolis). The album also brought a strong re-connection with the German jazz audience, because although Woeste has made his home since 1999 in Paris, and has a substantial profile on the French scene – both through his own projects and as a result of his work alongside stars such as Youn Sun Nah and Ibrahim Maalouf – he was actually born in Hanover.Woeste is living proof of the power of what can happen when cultures combine. In him we find a technical grounding from German classical music co-existing with a passi...
line upFrank Woeste / piano, Fender rhodes & synths
Eric Vloeimans / trumpet
Robinson Khoury / trombone
Julien Herné / bass
Stéphane Galland / drums
Oscar Woeste / voice on Tryptique III
Children‘s Choir Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine
Music composed, arranged and produced by Frank Woeste
Recorded and mixed by Erwan Boulay at Studio Libretto, Paris, June 2019
Mastered by Guillaume Jay
Children’s Choir Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine, directed by Gaël Darchen
Music Project Director: Clotilde Sébert
