Trio 3 & Geri Allen – Celebrating Mary Lou Williams (Live at Birdland New York) (2011/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:07:17 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Jazz
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Tio 3 played five evenings together with pianist Geri Allen in the New York jazz club Birdland, paying homage to the jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams. They presented fresh and individualistic interpretations of some of the most beautiful pieces of the ‘First Lady of Jazz’. Intakt has recorded these evenings.
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Trio 3 & Geri Allen – Trio 3: At This Time (2009/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:00:56 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Jazz
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Geri Allen is a natural choice, an already well-established collaborator with each member of Trio 3. Cyrille played on her 1984 debut recording as leader (The Printmakers) as well as more currently with her Mary Lou Williams Collective. Since first moving to New York from Detroit, Allen performed as a member of Lake’s ensembles throughout the ‘80s, from her first ever NYC gig with Lake’s Jump Up to four subsequent recordings under his leadership. Workman featured Allen on his 1995 recording Cerebral Caverns.
Needless to say, there was no need for formal introductions when this dynamic foursome entered the studio fresh off four straight nights performing at Birdland in New York. Admirably Trio 3 has neither given up their very essence or compromised their music or approach in this new chapter of the band, nor is Allen’s presence intrusive to any degree. As a matter of fact, the exact opposite: the four thrive as one under this unique union whose whole is much greater than the sum of its parts.
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Trio 3 & Vijay Iyer – Wiring (feat. Oliver Lake, Reggie Workman & Andrew Cyrille) (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:09:50 minutes | 1,30 GB | Genre: Jazz
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Three ‘heavy weights’ of American jazz Oliver Lake, Reggie Workmann and Andrew Cyrille make up the band Trio 3. For their 6th album on Intakt Records they have added pianist Vijay Iyer to the line-up. The 43 year old musician is after Irène Schweizer, Geri Allen and Jason Moran the fourth guest piano player cooperating with Trio 3.
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Trio 3 – Visiting Texture (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 51:42 minutes | 561 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Saxophonist Oliver Lake, bassist Reggie Workman and drummer Andrew Cyrille return as Trio 3, 11 years after their last trio album, 2006’s Time Being. The intervening years have seen the three musicians work powerfully with some serious guest pianists, notably Geri Allen, Irène Schweizer, Vijay Iyer and Jason Moran. But there’s a specific character to their trilateral rapport which finds full expression on Visiting Texture, consisting of original songs with one Ornette Coleman cover. The history among the trio members stretches back several decades, rooted in an ideal of collectivity and intuition: their motto has long been “a group where music is the leader.”
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Trio 3 – Time Being (feat. Oliver Lake, Reggie Workman & Andrew Cyrille) (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:01:05 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: Jazz
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„During the ’90s and early 2000s, a group calling itself Trio 3 was responsible for some of the most gratifying manifestations in all of jazz-based creative music. Each of the three participants embodies a wealth of first-hand experience gained by living and working at the epicenters of crucial developments in late 20th century improvised music.
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