„Ein geiler Mix aus Strom und Luft! Macht Lebensfroh“
So schreibt der renommierte Musiker/Komponist/Arrangeur Leonhard Paul (Mnozil Brass, Wieder Gansch & Paul, etc.) über die Musik der Fusionband „Mashed Peas“.
Dahinter stecken neun ambitionierte Musiker aus der Nachwuchsschmiede des Salzburger Jazzclubs „Jazzit“. Sie schaffen es gekonnt…. Zusammen auf der Bühne…
2016 wurde die Band mit dem Joe Zawinul-Jazzpreis ausgezeichnet, damals noch unter dem Namen Funkxpress. Darauf folgte ihr erstes Engagement auf internationaler Ebene, als Opening Act für „Robert Glasper Experiment“ am A to Jazz Festival in Sofia/Bulgarien.
Für ihr Debüt haben sich die „Mashed Peas“ reichlich Zeit gelassen – und mit „Slightly Different“ ein entsprechend gereiftes Album abgeliefert, das als Kooperation unter den Labels „Jazzit:Edition“ und „Bingosound“ erschien. Es bietet eine unwiderstehliche Mixtur, bei der knackiger, treibender, Fusion-Funk im Vordergrund steht und auch die Beats der Gegenwart eine Rolle spielen.
Die drei Release-Konzerte (München, Unterfahrt; Salzburg, Jazzit; Wien, Porgy&Bess) waren ein voller Erfolg.
„Dieser Erbsen-Stampf hüpft einem vor Lebendigkeit fast vom (Platten-)Teller.“
(Club Unterfahrt München)

​PAUL WIDAUER

SAXOPHONES

Paul Widauer received his first music lessons on the recorder at the age of 5 from Peter Lackner at the Musikum Salzburg. From the age of nine, he took saxophone lessons with Robert Friedl and Kurt Gersdorf. With the trio "The Brass Bros" he has performed at the Staatspreisverleihung für Literatur, the Rene Marcic Prize, the European Newspaper Award in Vienna, the Festspieleröffnung Salzburg and the Winterfest Salzburg 2014 with Karl Merkatz. Since October 2016 he has been studying popular music with Martin Fuss at the MdW Vienna IGP, majoring in saxophone.

MAXIMILIAN REHRL

TRUMPET, SYNTHESIZER

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LENZI WIDAUER

TRUMPET

Born in Salzburg/Austria.
Lorenz is currently studying classical trumpet (with Johann Plank) and jazz trumpet (with Lars Seniuk) in Vienna/Austria.
He played/worked with Allen Vizzutti, Lungau Bigband, Chez Fría, Michael Abene, Scheibsta & die Buben, Philharmonie Salzburg, Lorenz Raab, Laura Zotti, SoundInnBrass, Felix Gutschi and more.

SEBASTIAN REHRL

TROMBONE

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MATTHIAS LEBOUCHER

ORGAN, SYNTHESIZER, SEABOARD

Born in France, Matthias is a classical and contemporary music pianist, composer and jazz player. He studied piano, chamber music, jazz, analysis, harmony, orchestration and composition in France (Pôle Supérieur Paris-Boulogne-Billancourt), and graduated his composition Master in Mozarteum Salzburg under Tristan Murail and Achim Bornhöft.
He is pianist and artistic director of the ensemble NAMES, based in Salzburg and dedicated to contemporary music.
www.matthiasleboucher.weebly.com  

LUKAS MOSER

PIANO, SYNTHESIZERS

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RAFAEL TRUJILLO

GUITAR

Rafael Tonatiuh Trujillo Garduño, born 1994 in Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria, started learning various instruments including piano, drums and classical guitar at a very young age. At the age of sixteen he decided to focus on enhancing his skills in playing electric guitar. He enrolled at the Munich Guitar Institute where he graduated with distinction in late 2014. He had several private tutors and went to study jazz guitar at Conservatorium van Amsterdam and Berklee College of Music in Boston. Beside being a full member of progressive death metal band Obscura since 2015 and playing tours with the Panzerballett since 2017, he is mostly working as a session guitarist.

LUKAS KRANJC

BASS

Born in 1994 in Hallein (Austria), Lukas studied Electric bass and Double bass by Markus Peitli and Gernot Haslauer at the Salzburg Musikum, where he graduated his final Electric bass exam with excellent mention.
Lukas studies since 2016 at the university of music and Theater in Munich since 2016 by Patrick Scales, after his participation in his Jazzworkshop in Erlangen (Germany). In 2015 Lukas had lessons by the great Julian Crampton, Bassplayer from the funk and soulband Incognito. He is member of Mashed Peas since 2013, and they won together in 2016 the austrian Joe Zawinul jazzprice.

ROBERT SCHOOSLEITNER

DRUMS

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