Camille Bertault is France's new star of vocal jazz. Charming, humorous, expressive and unprecedentedly versatile. Le Figaro calls her "an unheard-of talent". She became famous with breakneck virtuoso vocal versions of intricate bebop standards. Today, she sees herself much more as a musical storyteller, especially with her refined original compositions, blurring influences from modern jazz, Brazilian music and French chanson. Her connection to the piano, and thus also with her duo partner David Helbock, is a very special one - after all, she began her career as an award-winning classical pianist. And the two share a special love of Brazilian music, especially that of pianist Hermeto Pascoal. David Helbock, on the other hand, like Camille Bertault, is a master of storytelling in music. For the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Helbock "belongs to the generation of young jazz musicians who are currently breaking the boundaries of their profession", who are radically changing the musical understanding of old and new, of composition and improvisation, of style and personality, and who are going their own way. Bertault and Helbock performed as a duo for the first time at the Austrian "Inntöne Festival" in early August 2021, and the connection ignited instantly, both on and off stage.

Camille Bertault (Voice), David Helbock (piano, rhodes, synthesizer)

With pianist David Helbock, trumpeter Sebastian Studnitzky and guitarist Arne Jansen, three exceptionally distinctive, renowned band leaders and solo artists of European jazz come together to form a very special trio. What all three have in common: the love for clear melody and harmony, a distinctive, individual sound and a strong rhythmic grounding of their music. Qualities that also characterized the “Cool Jazz” steam in jazz of the 1940s and 50s to which the trio now ties with “The New Cool”. And thus, also to a time and musical development which helped jazz, a few decades earlier the most popular music of its time, to regain new vitality and popularity. The focus on atmosphere and sound, the reduction to the essentials, the emotionality of the music - all cool jazz virtues that come back to life in the music of the trio. “The New Cool” is by no means a retro project. As in their projects as leaders, Helbock, Studnitzky and Jansen draw on their broad experience and the influences of a wide variety of genres and trends - from jazz in all its’ facets, over rock & pop, to classical playing culture and soundscapes of modern music production. The result: Contemporary music, in the spirit of "Cool".

David Helbock (piano, rhodes, synthesizer), Arne Jansen (guitar), Sebastian Studnitzky (trumpet)