VEIN featuring Dave Liebman, Vortex

Inventive modern Swiss trio VEIN (Michael Arbenz on piano; Thomas Lähns on bass; Florian Arbenz on drums) make a welcome return to the Vortex following an appearance with alto player Greg Osby last spring that earned them a raft of glowing reviews.
This time there’ll be performing with another great saxophonist, the American Dave Liebman, best known for his work with Miles Davis and Saxophone Summit, a sax trio with Ravi Coltrane and Joe Lovano.
Liebman and VEIN have worked together several times in the past and released live album Lemuria back in 2012, showcasing thrilling interactive powers.
The material for this set will come from their latest offering, and first studio release as a quartet, 2015’s Jazz Talks. Expect churning contemporary grooves, muscular swing and gloriously scatterbrained melodies as they sound one another out, improvising around standards and knotty, post bop originals that lurch between the visceral and the cerebral.