Michel Reis, Marc Demuth and Paul Wiltgen are three of Luxembourg’s most prominent jazz musicians. They formed the Reis-Demuth-Wiltgen Trio in 1998 while still in high school and performed on a regular basis in and around Luxembourg for a couple of years.
The trio reunited in 2011 and released their first album to widespread critical acclaim. Since then, the band has released two more albums and has toured extensively and has appeared at major jazz festivals throughout the world.
Their multiple collaborations with Joshua Redman in recent years have marked a major milestone in the trio’s career and have earned them the attention of the international music industry. SLY, the trio’s fourth album, is scheduled to be released by CAM Jazz in 2021.
Line-up:
Michel Reis: piano
Marc Demuth: bass
Paul Wiltgen: drums
: HAS PLAYED
Ottawa Jazz Festival (CA), Cotton Club (JP), Joe's Pub, Festival Mois de la Francophonie (US), Duc des Lombards, Têtes de Jazz, L'Olympia (FR), Luxor Live (NL), Vertigo (PL), Festival Jazzmeile (DE), Hot Club (PT), Museo Nacional de Colombia (CO), Cully Jazz Festival (CH), Festival Technopolis International Jazz Festival (GR), Vilnius Jazz Festival (LT), ...
: PRESS QUOTES
"... un disque à l’équilibre parfait, entre écriture européenne et puissance rythmique US ... " - TSFJazz
"Nouveau souffle venu du Luxembourg ..." - Jazz News Magazine
"Là où de nombreux groupes se brulent les ailes à trop vouloir jouer la carte de la modernité facile, le trio réussit à allier cette approche à une souplesse et une capacité d’évasion qui évitent toute monotonie. Car derrière des atours accrocheurs se dissimulent des trésors d’inventivité, et les musiciens laissent souvent libre cours à leur lyrisme, que ce soit par le biais de solos concis intelligemment placés dans les structures ou par de longues montées en puissance" - Olivier Acosta, Citizen Jazz
"Une nouvelle touche originale dans l'univers du trio piano, contrebasse, batterie. Entre magnifiques compositions romantiques et groove New-yorkais." - FranceInter
: BIOGRAPHY
Pianist Michel Reis, bassist Marc Demuth and drummer Paul Wiltgen are three of Luxembourg’s most prominent jazz musicians. They formed the Reis-Demuth-Wiltgen Trio in 1998 while still in high school and performed on a regular basis in and around Luxembourg for a couple of years.
The trio reunited in 2011 and released their first album to widespread critical acclaim. Since the release, the band has toured extensively throughout the world and has appeared at major international jazz festivals in Europe, Asia, North and South America and Western Africa. The band's sophomore album Places In Between was recorded in New York City and released in 2016. The Trio has since signed with the label CAM JAZZ, which released their latest work in 2018 entitled Once In A Blue Moon. The Trio's forth album sly will be coming out on CAM JAZZ in 2021.
The repertoire of Places In Between was first premiered at a festival in Luxembourg where the trio featured the world-renowned saxophonist Joshua Redman. Since 2014 Redman has been playing several of the trio's compositions with his own bands. Joshua Redman says that he fell in love with their music from the moment he heard them when his own quartet was playing a double bill with Reis-Demuth-Wiltgen at Festival Charlie Free in France. In March 2018, the trio toured in Europe with Joshua Redman as a featured guest. This tour included a performance at the Philharmonie Luxembourg featuring the music of Reis-Demuth-Wiltgen arranged for the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg by Michel Reis and multiple Grammy Award winning composer and conductor Vince Mendoza. In May 2019, Reis-Demuth-Wiltgen collaborated once again with Redman for a few festival appearances in France, Switzerland and Luxembourg.
