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Keith Jarrett Trio: Setting Standards (ECM/Ode)

Keith Jarrett Trio: Setting Standards (ECM/Ode)

...Keith Jarrett's career and recent work has been well covered... ...and drummer Jack deJohnette in which the trio explored with sensitivity and contemporary... ...or lesser degree, continues today -- and Jarrett, walking away from the intensity of utterly... ...the 25th anniversary edition, or perhaps go to Jarrett's superb solo The Melody At Night, With You...

Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette: Yesterdays (ECM/Ode)

Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette: Yesterdays (ECM/Ode)

...the greatest working jazz trio in the world today, pianist Jarrett, bassist... ...working jazz trio in the world today, pianist Jarrett, bassist Peacock and drummer DeJohnette once... ...a reverently respectful audience in Tokyo, the trio takes this material through new dimension of... ...example) there has been a joyful liveliness in Jarrett’s playing in the past decade and that is...

Jarrett, Haden, Motian: Hamburg '72 (ECM/Ode)

Jarrett, Haden, Motian: Hamburg '72 (ECM/Ode)

...career reached a particular apotheosis in this trio with pianist Keith Jarrett and drummer Paul... ...apotheosis in this trio with pianist Keith Jarrett and drummer Paul Motian (which became... ...addition of Coleman alumni Dewey Redman). This trio came together in '66 (Jarrett had only... ...Dewey Redman). This trio came together in '66 (Jarrett had only recorded two albums for ECM at the... ...for German radio in '72 recorded during the trio's first European tour and ECM founder/producer... ...is the only recording of Song For Che by Jarrett, and his composition Piece for Ornette. This... ...the period where Jarrett was exploring other instruments (here he plays... ...of Song For Che is very good because Jarrett brings a yearning and slightly discordant tone... ...The late Charlie Haden was heard -- with Jarrett or in other bands -- in better contexts, and... ...recently released Last Dance with Jarrett (released two days after his death) is a...

BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2011 Keith Jarrett: Rio (ECM)

BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2011 Keith Jarrett: Rio (ECM)

...this equally vibrant solo piano set by Keith Jarrett, recorded live in Rio in April 2011. This... ...and melodically unpredictable improvisation. Jarrett dips (and frequently dives deep) into Latin... ...it were. In recent years, on record at least, Jarrett's wonderful trio has taken precedence over his... ...years, on record at least, Jarrett's wonderful trio has taken precedence over his solo work. But...

Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden: Jasmine (ECM/Ode)

Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden: Jasmine (ECM/Ode)

...a rare one: this is Elsewhere regular, Keith Jarrett's first recording outside of his trio in . . .... ...Keith Jarrett's first recording outside of his trio in . . . well, it almost seems like forever.... ...These eight, carefully measured pieces find Jarrett (again) in the realm of standards (Body and... ...of the kind we have come to expect of Jarrett since his career turning point The Melody At... ...here). So, no surprises then? Well yes. Here Jarrett sounds more consciously authoritative than he... ...everywhere) and although in the liner notes Jarrett suggests they (he mostly?) wrestled for three... ...is no sense of struggle here at all. Listen to Jarrett's elegant intro to I'm Gonna Laugh You Right...

Elsewhere Art . . . Keith Jarrett

Elsewhere Art . . . Keith Jarrett

...be no more new music from pianist Keith Jarrett. In 2018 he suffered two separate strokes... ...haven't been the first serious health issues Jarrett has endured. The art here was created to... ...essentials. It remains one of my favourite Jarrett albums among so many. So the art tells that...

Keith Jarrett: Budapest Concert (ECM/digital outlets)

Keith Jarrett: Budapest Concert (ECM/digital outlets)

...stage for solo appearances and with his trio. However Jarrett suffered two strokes in 2018... ...solo appearances and with his trio. However Jarrett suffered two strokes in 2018 which has seen... ...has frequently recorded his concerts – Jarrett's list of live albums is legion – and... ...we have the musical and emotional breadth of Jarrett. There are – as was his wont after 2000... ...the melancholy Part V especially, yet another Jarrett improvisation which sounds like it is waiting... ...will not be the last album we have from Keith Jarrett, but we might guess that from now on they will... ...a considerable number of albums by Keith Jarrett over the years. See...

Keith Jarrett Trio, My Foolish Heart (2007)

Keith Jarrett Trio, My Foolish Heart (2007)

...to albums by jazz and Elsewhere pianist Keith Jarrett expecting to snap their fingers, smile at the... ...generally enjoy the good humour on display. Jarrett is usually a furrowed-brow listen, or in an... ...was somehow morally improving. There are many Jarrett albums (solo, or with his long-running trio of... ...Jarrett albums (solo, or with his long-running trio of drummer Jack DeJohnette and bassist Gary... ...are also adjectives that could be used about Jarrett. But "entertainer"? Not a... ...that make this a rare release in Jarrett's vast catalogue (my guess is maybe 66 - 70... ...Seventies), it is in the ballads where this trio really excels. The rippling treatment of My... ...slow-to-mid tempo material has been this trio's hallmark. They have previously delivered... ...followed, each notable for the sensitivity Jarrett -- who could charge like a bulldozer on heat... ...due to chronic fatigue syndrome. These days Jarrett is back in the spotlight and if he doesn't... ...Arms. You can hear the sheer enjoyment as Jarrett swings and finds odd angles, punctuates his... ...Chaser. So what prompted the then 62-year old Jarrett to go back to ragtime and stride styles this... ...funky Miles Davis in the early Seventies -- Jarrett used to drop fleeting references to these...

Jarrett, Garbarek, Danielsson, Christensen: Sleeper (ECM/Ode)

Jarrett, Garbarek, Danielsson, Christensen: Sleeper (ECM/Ode)

...my exceptionally crude count, pianist Keith Jarrett's name (as leader of a group or solo) is on at... ...been released at the time -- captures one of Jarrett's classic early line-ups, the group known as... ...when each player's reputation was assured, Jarrett and Garbarek had loyal followers, and the call... ...higher. There are bluesy elements in places (Jarrett on Chant of the Soil beneath Garbarek's sax... ...in the company of equals. Yes, there must be Jarrett and Garbarek fatigue out there, but this... ...high and is a rare entry in the catalogue of Jarrett's European Quartet which, on the evidence... ...you feel you have filled your quota of recent Jarrett and his interpretations of standards, this is...

Paul Motian: Conception Vessel (ECM)

Paul Motian: Conception Vessel (ECM)

...into free jazz as it opens with a quite lovely trio piece (Motian with bassist Charlie Haden and... ...which is a Motian duet with pianist Keith Jarrett) and ending with Inspiration From a Vietnamese... ...won't be an easy journey (the two duets with Jarrett find him audibly arm-wrestling with his... ...the journey will find most interest in the Jarrett and Jenkins material, and probably consider...

Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden: Last Dance (ECM/Ode)

Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden: Last Dance (ECM/Ode)

...this duet album with pianist Keith Jarrett was released internationally two days after... ...considered selections of standards which Jarrett (pictured on the left, with Haden) has been...

KEITH JARRETT: THE MELODY AT NIGHT, WITH YOU (1999). Distilling genius

KEITH JARRETT: THE MELODY AT NIGHT, WITH YOU (1999). Distilling genius

...days, Keith Jarrett gets as much space, sometimes more, in jazz... ...career of just over 25 years. By ’67, Jarrett had already served in Art Blakey’s Jazz... ...years later, he’s still at it. Sort of. Jarrett’s new album, The Melody at Night, With... ...there was clearly something seriously wrong. Jarrett learned he was suffering from chronic fatigue... ...for a musician, especially one as driven as Jarrett. All those years of learning and playing, all... ...it, and put up with its tantrums and demands. Jarrett, especially in his early career, exacted a... ...people, just that they deliver great music. Jarrett, mostly, kept his part of that contract.... ...roll call. But it was the mid 70s when Jarrett really hit his stride. He would take the stage... ...have expected to see it make the shops.” Jarrett has been prolific: ECM lists over 50 titles,... ...refinement kicked in. He worked in beautiful trio settings returned to daring interpretations of... ...three consecutive nights in New York – Jarrett has been going past those unable or unwilling...

Julia Hulsmann Trio: Sooner And Later (ECM/Ode)

Julia Hulsmann Trio: Sooner And Later (ECM/Ode)

...a decade since German pianist Hulsmann’s trio impressed mightily with the emotionally still... ...since ’89 – finds her back in the trio format after other digressions and again in... ...its heart; Offen is a delicate piece where the trio speak as one; JJ is much more lively...

Bobo Stenson Trio: Cantando (ECM/Ode)

Bobo Stenson Trio: Cantando (ECM/Ode)

...a special democracy at work here as the trio of Stenson, his longtime bassist Anders Jormin... ...on M, and the centre-piece Pages allows the trio to stretch out over a full 15 or more minutes.... ...trio improvisation at its most inventive best....

Karim Baggili with Le Trio Joubran: Kali City (homerecords)

Karim Baggili with Le Trio Joubran: Kali City (homerecords)

...ironically it is the material with the superb Trio Joubran which comes up short as Baggili... ...his life. The five pieces with the oud-playing Trio Joubran are politely impressionistic pieces... ...stepping stone to his betters, among them Le Trio Joubran on their earlier...

Marcin Wasilewski Trio: January (ECM)

Marcin Wasilewski Trio: January (ECM)

...names here because previous albums by this trio -- notably their debut album Trio for the ECM... ...austere sound" I called that of Trio -- and this new one is only marginally more... ...way more approachable than that impressive Trio album. But still very...

BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2008: Le Trio Joubran: Majaz (Jawwal/Ode)

BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2008: Le Trio Joubran: Majaz (Jawwal/Ode)

...eyes -- but put aside any preconceptions: this trio of oud-playing Palestinian brothers is the...

Neil Cowley Trio: Radio Silence (HideInside/Southbound)

Neil Cowley Trio: Radio Silence (HideInside/Southbound)

...jazz pianist Cowley and his trio seem to blow hot and cold: their '06 album... ...section driving behind him to create a power trio effect or sitting back during the (rare)...

The Julia Hulsmann Trio: The End of A Summer (ECM)

The Julia Hulsmann Trio: The End of A Summer (ECM)

...label-debut by German pianist Hulsmann and her trio. There is a haiku-like economy and stillness... ...-- and the ECM label it appears, although this trio has been active for a decade -- but I suspect...

Marcin Wasilewski Trio: En Attendant (ECM/digital outlets)

Marcin Wasilewski Trio: En Attendant (ECM/digital outlets)

...this trio have recorded recently with Joe Lovano and... ...a waiting period -- by one of the finest piano trios at work today, and still feeling they have...

Hadouk Trio: Baldamore (Naive)

Hadouk Trio: Baldamore (Naive)

...up and listen -- and this French/North African trio managed to do that, and more. I haven't... ...free jazz and soundtrack ensembles. The Hadouk Trio have released about five albums as far as I...

BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2011 Marcin Wasilewski Trio: Faithful (ECM/Ode)

BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2011 Marcin Wasilewski Trio: Faithful (ECM/Ode)

...Wasilewski who leads this trio has appeared a number of times previously at... ...and with trumpetr Enrico Rava. He -- and his trio -- has impressed every time. But this album... ...the point of almost evaporation (proving this trio are as much in the lineage of Bill Evans as...

Shai Maestro: Human (ECM/digital outlets)

Shai Maestro: Human (ECM/digital outlets)

...and one which those who enjoyed Keith Jarrett's more measured trio albums would warm to. .... ...who enjoyed Keith Jarrett's more measured trio albums would warm to. . You can hear this...

Hedvig Mollestad Trio: Smells Funny (Rune Grammofon/Southbound)

Hedvig Mollestad Trio: Smells Funny (Rune Grammofon/Southbound)

...is kettle of entirely different meat: a power trio of fiery guitarist Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen,... ...Somewhat akin to Rune Grammofon's power-jazz trio Elephant 9 – but as filtered through Led... ...and free jazz sometimes and on this, the trio's sixth album apparently, dial things down... .... . . Okay, Kerrang!, Guitar Player, power trio, Led Zepp, Sabbath . . . Get the picture? Not...

RECOMMENDED REISSUE: Murray McNabb; Songs for the Dream Weaver (Sarang Bang)

RECOMMENDED REISSUE: Murray McNabb; Songs for the Dream Weaver (Sarang Bang)

...and in Charles Lloyd's band alongside Keith Jarrett; Nussbaum having worked with John Scofield --... ...and other later projects -- this acoustic trio album captures him exploring the language of... ...piano trio jazz and some material here (the stately...

Trio: Da Da Da (1982)

Trio: Da Da Da (1982)

...to the Gap Band, Duran Duran to Soft Cell. And Trio with this gimmicky hit, the full title of... ...would have taken off as it did. And how this trio actually parlayed their success into a career...

THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: Carolina Moon

THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: Carolina Moon

...Savinna Yannatou; My Song – Keith Jarrett / Jan Garbarek Any interesting, valuable or... ...with? – probably not – but Keith Jarrett and Jan Garbarek would definitely be amongst... ...most recent downloads include . . .) Mike Nock Trio – An Accumulation of Subtleties One...

The Neil Cowley Trio: Displaced (HideInside/Southbound)

The Neil Cowley Trio: Displaced (HideInside/Southbound)

...a note is wasted and never misplaced, this trio fire along with Monk-like angularity, Cowley...

ONE WE MISSED: Corea/McBride/Blade: Trilogy 2 (Concord/Southbound)

ONE WE MISSED: Corea/McBride/Blade: Trilogy 2 (Concord/Southbound)

...That is why we will always give Keith Jarrett a fair hearing, especially in his trio with... ...Jarrett a fair hearing, especially in his trio with drummer Jack deJohnette and bassist Gary...

Tim Garland and the Lighthouse Trio: Libra (Elite)

Tim Garland and the Lighthouse Trio: Libra (Elite)

...album which works the diffficult area between trio playing and orchestration, jazz and classical,...

Marcin Wasilewski Trio/Joe Lovano: Arctic Riff (ECM/digital outlets)

Marcin Wasilewski Trio/Joe Lovano: Arctic Riff (ECM/digital outlets)

...have encountered pianist Marcin Wasilewski's trio either under their own name or on albums with... ...Stanko. The trio's Faithful album was among our best of 2011...

Benedikt Jahnel Trio: The Invariant (ECM/Ode)

Benedikt Jahnel Trio: The Invariant (ECM/Ode)

...of others. In that regard the Benedikt Jahnel Trio is almost an oddity. This year they –... ...ease also comes about because this trio knows how to swing gently but with depth, as... ...and provocation (Interpolation One). The piano trio is one of the pillars of jazz and here the...

Julia Hulsmann Trio: Imprint (ECM/Ode)

Julia Hulsmann Trio: Imprint (ECM/Ode)

...few would deny the gentle beauty of these trio recordings (and, not incidentally, the...

John Key Trio: Back and Forth (Odd)

John Key Trio: Back and Forth (Odd)

...Key delivers a very good, straight-ahead piano trio album of all originals with bassist Mat... ...will redefine your expectation of the piano trio, you'd have to concede music as spare and...

Le Trio Joubran: AsFar (World Village/Ode)

Le Trio Joubran: AsFar (World Village/Ode)

...piece, Masana, is the most traditional. Le Trio Joubran are something unique and this...

Unwind: Embers (Rattle/digital outlets)

Unwind: Embers (Rattle/digital outlets)

...listening to Bill Evans or late-period Keith Jarrett. The Unwind group of pianist/composer Norman... ...the kind of quietude found in spiritual music (Jarrett's The Melody at Night, With You, Tony Scott's...

Pat Metheny/Cuong Vu Trio: Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny (Nonesuch)

Pat Metheny/Cuong Vu Trio: Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny (Nonesuch)

...acclaimed '05 follow-up The Way Up. Here Vu's trio (bassist Stomu Takeishi, drummer Ted Poor)...

MPT Trio: Volume 1 (577 Records/digital outlets)

MPT Trio: Volume 1 (577 Records/digital outlets)

...challenging free jazz. This debut by the MPT Trio – drummer Francisco Mela, tenor player... ...writer's track of choice!) But overall this trio's debut is much more approachable than many of...

RECOMMENDED RECORD: Alice Coltrane: A Monastic Trio (Impulse)

RECOMMENDED RECORD: Alice Coltrane: A Monastic Trio (Impulse)

...from two albums, Cosmic Music and A Monastic Trio, and resequenced them to shift from quartet to... ...trio to harp trio. And it went out on a previously unissued solo...

Trio-Da-Kali and Kronos Quartet: Ladilikan (World Circuit)

Trio-Da-Kali and Kronos Quartet: Ladilikan (World Circuit)

...African adventures, here with an acclaimed trio from Mali. Trio-Da-Kali are rightly hailed as... ...among their finest. Largely because this trio from Mali are quite...

Tania Giannouli: Solo (Rattle/digital outlets)

Tania Giannouli: Solo (Rattle/digital outlets)

...Rewa in 2018, with her own ensemble, and her trio album In Fading Light (piano, trumpet and oud,... ...to melodies in the way Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett were (all very differently, of course) but on...

Gunter Herbig: Ex Oriente; Music by GI Gurdjieff (Bis)

Gunter Herbig: Ex Oriente; Music by GI Gurdjieff (Bis)

...Thomas de Hartmann . . . and which Keith Jarrett interpreted on his 1980 ECM album Sacred Hymns... ...guitar, Herbig ranges more widely than Jarrett in that he interprets pieces from across a... ...The Resurrection of Christ (which Jarrett did as a more melancholy and concise piece)...

Steve Kuhn Trio: Wisteria (ECM/Ode)

Steve Kuhn Trio: Wisteria (ECM/Ode)

...at that interface of melodic piano trio balladry and hard bop. As with so many of the... ...piano trios -- where intuitive understanding is... ...then, this is the first time this particular trio has recorded together, and -- with Kuhn being...

Sonny Rollins Trio: Shadow Waltz (Solar/Southbound)

Sonny Rollins Trio: Shadow Waltz (Solar/Southbound)

...late 20s -- and he worked with his piano-less trios which changed the way people thought of him,... ...of the jazz trio. This album is somewhat deceptive: first there... ...never any one "Sonny Rollins Trio" as the title suggets, and Shadow Waltz...

RECOMMENDED REISSUE: Mal Waldron; Free At Last (ECM 2xLP/CD/digital)

RECOMMENDED REISSUE: Mal Waldron; Free At Last (ECM 2xLP/CD/digital)

...ad in some street press saying the Mal Waldron Trio was playing that night in a club. What club... ...that his '69 Free At Last album with his trio of bassist Isla Eckinger and drummer Clarence... ...so Eicher actively sought out sidemen (Keith Jarrett was an astute choice), European and Scandi...

THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: Seamus Cahill

THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: Seamus Cahill

...he's Irish) is the C in the Irish-Danish ULC Trio who canvas a broad range of folk and... ...styles. The acclaimed trio come to New Zealand for an extensive tour (see... .... . . To get to do a song accompanied by Keith Jarrett The three films you'd insist anybody watch...

Sheppard/Benita/Rochford: Trio Libero (ECM/Ode)

Sheppard/Benita/Rochford: Trio Libero (ECM/Ode)

...Most of these pieces are credited to the trio and were worked out from sessions of pure...

Jack DeJohnette: Sound Travels (Shock)

Jack DeJohnette: Sound Travels (Shock)

...check out these albums with pianist Keith...

Marc Johnson, Elaine Elias: Swept Away (ECM/Ode)

Marc Johnson, Elaine Elias: Swept Away (ECM/Ode)

...Marc Johnson, drummer Joey Baron (a working trio in their own right) and tenor player Joe...

Charlie Haden Family and Friends: Rambling Boy (Universal)

Charlie Haden Family and Friends: Rambling Boy (Universal)

...Ornette Coleman quartet, played with Keith Jarrett and Pat Metheny (among many others), is...

David Friesen Trio: Another Time Another Place (Rattle)

David Friesen Trio: Another Time Another Place (Rattle)

...that he couldn't because this is very much a trio of equals. Start with the hypnotic Basic... ...we knew they were already, right? DAVID FRESEN TRIO TOUR AND WORKSHOPS 16th October: Workshop at...

Espen Eriksen Trio with Andy Sheppard: Perfectly Unhappy (Rune Grammofon/Southbound)

Espen Eriksen Trio with Andy Sheppard: Perfectly Unhappy (Rune Grammofon/Southbound)

...Bjornstad and Eivind Aarset. Here he joins the trio lead by Norwegian pianist Espen Eriksen on the...

Ralph Towner: At First Light (ECM/digital outlets)

Ralph Towner: At First Light (ECM/digital outlets)

...his debut for the label back in 1972 with Trios/Solos. On that album for some pieces he had... ...as vibes player Gary Burton, pianist Keith Jarrett, guitarists Egberto Gismonti and Robben Ford,...

Benjamin Gisli Trio: Line of Thought (Fjordgata Records/digital outlets)

Benjamin Gisli Trio: Line of Thought (Fjordgata Records/digital outlets)

...is an especially promising debut from a young trio which has found solid ground to stand on and...

Cyclone Trio: The Clear Revolution (577 Records/digital outlets)

Cyclone Trio: The Clear Revolution (577 Records/digital outlets)

...the cognoscenti alike, so we said so. Cyclone Trio – multiple-sax Massimo Magee from the UK... ...site as “a popular song by Cyclone Trio” by someone who clearly hasn't heard it....

Trio Antipodes: Upside Downwards (MAPL/Rattle)

Trio Antipodes: Upside Downwards (MAPL/Rattle)

...band name and title on this album by a jazz trio out of Canada. Interesting because the...

Charles Lloyd: Lift Every Voice (2002)

Charles Lloyd: Lift Every Voice (2002)

...music by 1970 for a decade. Alongside Keith Jarrett, his career in the Nineties has been one of... ...most extraordinary rehabilitations. Ironically Jarrett, who played himself into chronic fatigue... ...boasted an impressive cast besides Lloyd and Jarrett: Jack DeJohnette on drums (part of... ...on drums (part of Jarrett’s current trio) and bassists Ron McClure and Cecil McBee.... ...to give Lloyd credit: he not only discovered Jarrett but when he made a brief comeback in 1981 it...

The Ornette Coleman Trio: At the Golden Circle, Stockholm. Vol 1 (1965)

The Ornette Coleman Trio: At the Golden Circle, Stockholm. Vol 1 (1965)

...at this time, decided to have Coleman's trio (of bassist David Izenzon and drummer Charlie... ...the same cover shot by producer Wolff of the trio isolated and huddled together in the snow. At... ...beat and quiet energy. Coleman kept this trio for only a few years around this time, but it...

Vallon, Moret, Rohrer: Rruga (ECM/Ode)

Vallon, Moret, Rohrer: Rruga (ECM/Ode)

...is ECM piano trio jazz certainly, but young pianist/composer... ...There have been some rather generic ECM piano trio albums lately where you enjoy the surface but... ...for more substance. This young trio from Switzerland deliver a consistently...

Perunika Trio: A Bright Star Has Risen (ARC)

Perunika Trio: A Bright Star Has Risen (ARC)

While there can be a few problems with "file under rock" or "file under world music" on your album cover, having "Voices of Bulgaria" on your cover as a subtitle inevitab

THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE JAZZ QUESTIONNAIRE: Paul Van Ross

THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE JAZZ QUESTIONNAIRE: Paul Van Ross

...from Belonging Album with Keith Jarrett……made me cry. Emotional playing.... ...recent downloads include . . .) Luke Howard Trio (Melbourne... ...One jazz standard you wished you had written... ...of Afro Cuban music (at the end) PAUL VAN ROSS TRIO TOUR DATES December 13, The Thirsty Dog,...

RALPH TOWNER and JOHN ABERCROMBIE (2017): Staying true in the old style

RALPH TOWNER and JOHN ABERCROMBIE (2017): Staying true in the old style

...Lovano, Steve Kuhn etc) and pianists (Keith Jarrett, Paul Bley, more recently Vijay Iyer, Marilyn... ...version” of this piece by the Bill Evans Trio (pianist Evans, bassist Scott LaFaro, drummer... ...on a course to try to attain the magic of this trio”. At the time Towner was himself a... ...of almost holy silence and spaciousness in the Trio's interpretation. When he turned attention to...

JOHN SURMAN: The casually-dressed career

JOHN SURMAN: The casually-dressed career

...Hope (is free jazz-country a genre?), Keith Jarrett with DeJohnette and Gary Peacock on Standards...

Roger Manins: Trio (Rattle Jazz)

Roger Manins: Trio (Rattle Jazz)

...year. The second in the series, out now, is Trio by saxophonist Roger Manins, bassist Moysten...

Charles Lloyd: The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note/digital outlets)

Charles Lloyd: The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note/digital outlets)

...album but he also introduced pianists Keith Jarrett and Michel Petrucciani to his bands and...

CHARLES LLOYD, CONSIDERED (2022): The 21st century man

CHARLES LLOYD, CONSIDERED (2022): The 21st century man

...bassist Cecil McBee, the young pianist Keith Jarrett and drummer Jack DeJohnette to wide attention.... ...slowing down. He recently released the live Trios: Chapel on the Blue Note label -- the first... ...three trio recordings this year – and live albums... ...year before Forest Flower. The drummerless trio of Lloyd, Frisell and bassist Thomas Morgan... ...a weightless, reflective and melodic sound on Trios: Chapel, look back to some of his earlier... ...with a capital A”. . The Charles Lloyd trio and quartet albums mentioned here are on...

Soda Boyz: Farewell Spit (Flying Out/digital outlets)

Soda Boyz: Farewell Spit (Flying Out/digital outlets)

...traps . . . Soda Boyz, a self-styled slowcore trio from Palmerston North via Wellington, work an... ...and while you sense this is not the best this trio is going to achieve (Saigon II at the end with...

Paul Bley: Play Blue (ECM/Ode)

Paul Bley: Play Blue (ECM/Ode)

...another like the young and adventurous Keith Jarrett and another Cecil Taylor at his most...

Tomasz Dabrowski and The Individual Beings (April/digital outlets)

Tomasz Dabrowski and The Individual Beings (April/digital outlets)

...been albums by his group, Marcin Wasilewski Trio. That trio paid tribute to Stanko on their...

Neil Cowley Trio: Touch and Flee (Naim/Southbound)

Neil Cowley Trio: Touch and Flee (Naim/Southbound)

Among the many reasons to pay attention to, and respect, British pianist Cowley is this: a few years back for a tribute record to the Beatles' "White Album" he did a version of . . . . Revol

BUNNY WAILER, REMEMBERED (2021): The last of the Kingston trio

BUNNY WAILER, REMEMBERED (2021): The last of the Kingston trio

...no surviving members of the famous Jamaican trio the Wailers. Bob Marley died in 1981 and Peter...

SERIOUS FUN; THE MUSIC AND LIFE OF MIKE NOCK by NORMAN MEEHAN (VUP)

SERIOUS FUN; THE MUSIC AND LIFE OF MIKE NOCK by NORMAN MEEHAN (VUP)

...Sydney where he formed the influential 3-Out Trio which recorded for EMI. Widely considered one... ...Along the way Nock replaced Keith Jarrett in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers (to be...

Tord Gustavsen Ensemble: Restored, Returned (ECM/Ode)

Tord Gustavsen Ensemble: Restored, Returned (ECM/Ode)

...ECM pianist Gustavsen at Elsewhere was his trio album Being There which was named a Best of...

Konitz, Mehldau, Haden, Motian: Live at Birdland (ECM/Ode)

Konitz, Mehldau, Haden, Motian: Live at Birdland (ECM/Ode)

A 2009 ECM superstar session where Lee, Brad, Charlie and Paul played standards (Lover Man, Lullaby of Birdland, Oleo etc) from which this finely wrought, sensitive selection was drawn. Pianist Mehlda

Bing and Ruth: No Home of the Mind (4AD)

Bing and Ruth: No Home of the Mind (4AD)

...At the time some likened it to Keith Jarrett without the grunts, groans and wrestling with...

The Groundhogs: Blues Obituary 50th Anniversary (Fire/Southbound)

The Groundhogs: Blues Obituary 50th Anniversary (Fire/Southbound)

...fell out of fashion and their more power-trio sometimes with socio-political intentions... ...fresher pastures. The slim-line, under-powered trio still played kind of British blues some where...

SUSS: Birds & Beasts (digital outlets)

SUSS: Birds & Beasts (digital outlets)

...we stumbled on SUSS, a New York instrumental trio who create ambient widescreen guitar... ...band – as is SUSSman Bob Holmes' other trio Numün which we also drew attention to. So...

Jake Shimabukuro: Trio (Music Theories/digital)

Jake Shimabukuro: Trio (Music Theories/digital)

It has been 12 years since I picked up the album Gently Weeps album by the Hawaiian ukulele player Jake Shimabukuro, largely to see what he did with the George Harrison title track. You can make up yo

Vein: Our Roots (bandcamp)

Vein: Our Roots (bandcamp)

...falls between classical and jazz as this Swiss trio of pianist Michael Arbenz, his brother/drummer... ...has been much explored but this acclaimed trio (admired in both spheres) have a delightfully...

Mike Nock and Roger Manins: Two-Out (FWM)

Mike Nock and Roger Manins: Two-Out (FWM)

...from solo recordings through duets and trios to large ensembles, from straight-ahead jazz... ...title which alludes to Nock's famous 3-Out Trio of the Sixties, are 11 standards – most... ...here – perhaps Bill Evans, subdued Keith Jarrett, melancholy Lester Young – but by the...

Charles Mingus: The Lost Album from Ronnie Scott's (Resonance/digital outlets)

Charles Mingus: The Lost Album from Ronnie Scott's (Resonance/digital outlets)

...the following year (Ornette Coleman, Keith Jarrett, Bill Evans and Mingus among those to be let...

Speed Caravan: Kalashnik Love (Adami)

Speed Caravan: Kalashnik Love (Adami)

...found favour at Elsewhere, notably with Le Trio Joubran and Anouar Brahem, and albums like...

Scott LaFaro: Pieces of Jade (Resonance)

Scott LaFaro: Pieces of Jade (Resonance)

...for his work in the classic Fifties trio with pianist Bill Evans and drummer Paul... ...Memories of Scotty. This is classic piano trio jazz -- and Friedman, not exactly a name...

Laraaji: Sun Piano (All Saints/digital outlets)

Laraaji: Sun Piano (All Saints/digital outlets)

...one overseas writer's comparisons with Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea seems somewhat amiss. For...

Tim Green/Massimo Magee: Abeyance (Orbit577/digital outlets)

Tim Green/Massimo Magee: Abeyance (Orbit577/digital outlets)

...album The Clear Revolution as the Cyclone Trio. That album was recorded the day after their...

Motian/Lovano/Frisell; Time and Time Again (2007)

Motian/Lovano/Frisell; Time and Time Again (2007)

...unique individual talents such as Keith Jarrett, and a roster of interesting guitarists (Pat... ...but have played together in this bass-less trio since the 80s. Their '81 debut album together...

Rolf Lislevand: Nuova Musiche (ECM New Series)

Rolf Lislevand: Nuova Musiche (ECM New Series)

...Monk) and some highly conservative (Keith Jarrett playing Bach). For many the ECM New Series was...

10 INFLUENTIAL JAZZ ALBUMS IN MY COLLECTION: The shape of me to come

10 INFLUENTIAL JAZZ ALBUMS IN MY COLLECTION: The shape of me to come

...studio . . . I'd heard a lot of solo, duet and trio recordings by the time this came out but these... ...too much Monk still ain't enough. . #5 Keith Jarrett, The Melody At Night, With You (1998). Any... ...of Keith Jarrett albums could be here (I have scores,... ...Needless to say there is a lot of Keith Jarrett at Elsewhere starting here. By the way... ...a Jarrett to avoid mentioned here. This album is on...

THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE JAZZ QUESTIONNAIRE: Kristin Berardi and Rafael Karlen of Berardi/Foran/Karlen

THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE JAZZ QUESTIONNAIRE: Kristin Berardi and Rafael Karlen of Berardi/Foran/Karlen

...Australian trio Berardi/Foran/Karlen – soon to undertake... ...of war. Separately the members of the trio have toured to the Montreux, Bremen, Tokyo,... ...this the style and material for the trio came together quite clearly as this trio is... ...I would have loved to see Bill Evans and his trio with Scott LaFaro. Those two together is still... ...RK: I think that being on stage with Keith Jarrett would be very special. He can make anything...

THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE JAZZ QUESTIONNAIRE: Benny Lackner

THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE JAZZ QUESTIONNAIRE: Benny Lackner

...-- who is returning to Auckland with his trio for the inaugural Auckland Jazz Festival this... ...TOOK ALL THE MILES, COLTRANE, PARKER AND KEITH JARRETT I COULD FIT INTO THESE CRATES. The best book...

BILL EVANS' 1963 ALBUM MOON BEAMS: Art from the heart place

BILL EVANS' 1963 ALBUM MOON BEAMS: Art from the heart place

...of the prism Moon Beams, the album by the jazz trio lead by pianist Bill Evans, could easily be... ...recordings suggested that here was a piano trio as good as any, and one which has been seldom... ...Essential Elsewhere. By June, Evans felt the trio was ready to record and Keepnews -- who had... ...is a strong case to be made that despite other trios down the decades until his death in '80, he... ...introverted, contemplation that marked out his trio work with Motian and LaFaro, then Israels.... ...NB: The clip below features the Scott LaFaro trio on Evans' classic tune Waltz for...

JAN GARBAREK, ECM SAXOPHONIST (2009): The times they have a-changed

JAN GARBAREK, ECM SAXOPHONIST (2009): The times they have a-changed

...albums by people as diverse as pianist Keith Jarrett, folkloric guitarist Egberto Gismonti and...

Jonathan Crayford/Ben Street/Dan Weiss: Dark Light (Rattle Jazz)

Jonathan Crayford/Ben Street/Dan Weiss: Dark Light (Rattle Jazz)

...standards are impeccably high, and this piano trio album lead by the multi-faceted Jonathan... ...in Space). And it is a proper "piano trio album" in which pianist Crayford finds...

Paul Bley Quintet: Barrage (ESP-Disk)

Paul Bley Quintet: Barrage (ESP-Disk)

...with Charlie Parker in Montreal and recorded a trio album with Charles Mingus and Art Blakey over... ...came together on the more open setting of the trio on Closer....

Unwind: Orange (Rattle, CD+DVD)

Unwind: Orange (Rattle, CD+DVD)

...Unwind trio are bassist/educator Paul Dyne, pianist/writer... ...if undramatic album which follows this trio's excellent Unwind debut of late last year,...

Andy Sheppard Quartet: Surrounded by Sea (ECM/Ode)

Andy Sheppard Quartet: Surrounded by Sea (ECM/Ode)

...is not so unexpected. With his established trio (double bassist Michael Benita and the...

Kevin Field, Ron Samsom, Olivier Holland: Irony (Rattle)

Kevin Field, Ron Samsom, Olivier Holland: Irony (Rattle)

...makes a serious foray into jazz with this fine trio recording of originals. Pianist Field... ...What follows sketches out another side of the trio: Samsom's Canadia which is an elegantly... ...These broad parameters set, this impressive trio essay their ideas with what seems like ease,...

The Third Power: Getting' Together (1970)

The Third Power: Getting' Together (1970)

...tone and then attempted something similar. The trio of Third Power out of Farmington Hills near... ...– in 1970. Located along the power trio axis of Hendrix and the Cream – with a...