With their debut «Ugly Beauty», «MONKBEATZ», the trio of Swiss guitarist Ursus Bachthaler attends to the oeuvre of the greatjazz eccentric and presents an individual and strong interpretation of the wonderfully deep and quirky music of TheloniousMonk. Just like Ursus Bachthaler, the Berlin-based pianist Benny Lackner and drummer Rainer Winch bring impressive musicalbackgrounds and love to delve into the history and big names of jazz. Between the poles of past and present, they preserveand discard, experiment, and push boundaries yet always come back to their very own sound aesthetic.Accordingly, «Ugly Beauty» is stylisticly diverse: freely improvised passages meet uneven Indie-beats, a rough HipHop groovealternates with impressionistic intermezzos and sometimes it straight up swings!