Bon Soir 💙🎻🎹🥁🆕️

Luca Sestak Trio 🎵 Solfeggietto (C. Ph. E. Bach)

'Lighter Notes'

Tyshawn Sorey ‎– Verisimilitude. 2017 : Pi.

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Mambo trio. 🎹🎻🥁🎺🪘(mixed media collage)🎵

Human Being Human — Disappearance (April)

Human Being Human is a Danish trio led by double bassist Torben Bjørnskov with Esben Tjalve on piano and Fredrik Bülow on drums. Disappearance is the group’s second release, coming just a year after Equals. Bjørnskov, who has appeared with luminaries such as Billy Cobham, offers up a set of eight mid-length and largely slow to mid-tempo original compositions that sound simultaneously well-rehearsed and spontaneous. From an initial slap of a cymbal, tinkle of piano, or burble of bass, the tunes develop organically, with occasional martial beats giving way to gentle reveries and picking up pace again or staccato chords and percussion marking the transitions. Also crucial to their sound, the members of the group know how to hang back and make full use of the spaces among the notes.

These musicians have clearly logged a lot of practice and stage time together and learned how to play off of each other. Bjørnskov’s bass alternately provides counterpoint to the piano and locks in with Bülow’s tasteful percussion as well as providing some nice solos, as on the title track and the ballad “Together Again.” Tjalve has a sensitive touch that keeps him from dominating the sound, as keyboards sometimes do in small groups, and his meditative approach well suits the compositions. The leader also brings in electronics at times, such as on “When You Find It, You Will Know,” that add a little diversity to the sound without distracting from the overall mood.

Over all, Human Being Human contribute to what has been an excellent year for piano trios (other, quite different, examples covered by Dusted recently include Vicente Archer’s Short Stories and Vertical Motion by Anthony Davis, Kyle Motl, and Kjell Nordeson). Disappearance offers a nice balance between gentle melodic passages and moments that demand the listener’s attention. The title, according to the liner notes, refers to anxiety about the fleeting nature of life, but these Danes do not sound melancholy.

Jim Marks

”red leather, yellow leather”

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Tiny Desk Korea

YunSeokcheol Trio

I like this song

Jazz Trios

I was off work yesterday after a long week of heavy work. I think am too old, anyhow I'd planned to do nothing except rest. By good fortune early in the morning I stumbled upon Jazz Sabbath, a Jazz trio performing  music of Black Sabbath. After a bunch of their videos, I listened to Jazz trio music all day long.

I listened to the Julius Rodrigues Trio and the Joey Alexander Trio. Both are such brilliant musicians, who while very young have been playing for a long time. Here is Joey Alexander at age 11. He's 19 now and the Birdland concert linked to are all his original compositions.

He's been playing regularly in trio with Kris Funn. His collaborations with Joey Alexander and John Davis on drums are wonderful. On Funn's Google knowledge panel the genre is listed: Japanese Hip Hop/Rap. I was skeptical and clicked through to his Website. I was glad because there is so much there, so much that I might have missed the Japanese Hip Hop. He's got the coolest merch I've seen. There's a whole page of Art + Writing which moved me.  His Web site is worth the visit. 

I listened to a bunch of Jazz trios and will link to a few performances that taught my ear:

I Cover the Waterfront, Lester Young, Nat King Cole, Buddy Rich.

Money Jungle, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Max Roach

River Man, Brad Mehldau, Larry Grenadier, Jorge Rossy

Everywhere You Turn, The Bad Plus, Reid Anderson, Dave King, Ethan Iverson

When the Sleeper Wakes, Michael Wollny Trio, Michael Wollny, Christian Weber, Eric Schaefer

I really know so little about music. I am sure I’ve just scratched the surface. And I surely hadn't appreciated Jazz trios as much before today!

Avishai Cohen Trio - Shifting Sands - 2021 Avishai Cohen Trio -  Shifting Sands -  Théâtre du Maillon, Strasbourg 2021 # AvishaiCohen – Bass Elchin Shirinov – Piano Roni Kaspi – Drum  Concert recorded on November 21, 2021 at the Théâtre du Maillon, Strasbourg.

The Mountain (Abdullah Ibrahim) live at The Swellies 15/10/22

Jochen Eisentraut (keys) introduced me to this South African gem by Abdullah Ibrahim + to this day it is one of my all time favourite tunes.

Ken Vandermark + Kugel + Tokar – Escalator. 2017 : Not Two.

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The apple dumpling trio. 🍎🎷🎻🎵(mixed media collage- commissions open)🎶🎺🥁

☔️ inktober 2023 // day six: golden ☔️

a certain trio ❤️‍🔥