Melt Trio – CONSUMER was awarded the GERMAN JAZZ AWARD – ALBUM OF THE YEAR in 2023.
Since its founding in 2010, the Berlin-based Melt Trio has become one of the most innovative guitar trios in contemporary jazz worldwide. With their progressive and unique sound, they captivate professionals, music lovers, and concertgoers at jazz festivals and club concerts around the globe. Following the critically acclaimed albums “Melt”, “Hymnolia”, and “Stroy”, the latest album “Consumer” was awarded the German Jazz Prize for Best Instrumental Album of the Year. In spring 2026, the new album will be released by the young Berlin label “FunInTheChurch”. On the current album and in more than 200 joint concerts, the three Berliners have further honed their special style and demonstrated an even stronger creative will in the details. Their combination of acoustic and electronic sounds is more compelling than ever, and specific influences from jazz and classical modernity to post- and prog-rock are only vaguely discernible, because the music simply sounds like Melt Trio. It is and remains a guitar trio that stands out without comparison. “Melt is neither Nirvana on jazz nor Bill Frisell Trio in rock, nor Massacre in ambient. Melt is Melt, unique, individually captivating, and moving.”
The Melt Trio has been featured by Arte Concerts, Arte Tracks, FAZ, DownBeat, taz, RONDO, Jazzpodium, Jazzthetik, and Jazzthing and has also been nominated three times for the EchoJazz award.
In addition to concerts at some of the most prestigious festivals for contemporary jazz, collaborations with musicians from classical music and the electronic scene (Ensemble Modern, Jan Bang, Gebrüder Teichmann,…) have increasingly helped make the Berlin band well-known far beyond the circle of jazz listeners.
Bernhard Meyer has been teaching as a professor for electric bass at the Musikhochschule in Mannheim since 2020.
Line-up:
Peter Meyer - guitar
Bernhard Meyer - bass
Moritz Baumgärtner - drums
Doors open 1.5 hours before the start.