ElverGun Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 I registered on CA so I could get some information on FLAC players...and then I saw this thread. I mainly listen to piano trios, so reading through this thread will be fun. Well, here are my first recommendations: Ismael Dueñas Trio and Glerum Omnibus. I'll post more after I read the whole thread. Edit: I thought I was familiar with just about any modern trio on Earth...and just by reading the first page I was able to discover six new artist I did not know existed. Thanks to the posters in this thread. Link to comment
ElverGun Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 That's exactly the purpose of this thread. Will check out both your recommendations when I get back home. Hope they are on Qobuz. Hadn't heard of either of them. Here are two that I recently discovered: Alex Mercado Trio and Dominic J Marshall. Both are great musicians\composers. Edit: Since you seem to like Italian musicians...two more: Cesare Picco and Gabriele Pezzoli Trio. And I'll throw in a guy from France just for fun: Remi Panossian. Link to comment
ElverGun Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 Do you have any specific albums you'd recommend? Glerum Omnibus and the Neil Cowley Trio are probably my favorite piano trios. I say they are my favorite because I never get tired of hearing their albums no matter how many times I play them. If I had to recommend one album from each, I would say: Neil Cowley: Live at Montreux 2012 Glerum Omnibus: Omnibus One Cesare Picco: My Room Ismael Dueñas Trio: Jazz Ateu Alex Mercado: Symbiosis Dominic J Marshall: Spirit Speech Gabriele Pezzoli Trio: Rendez-vous Remi Panossian: Add Fiction And here are some of my favorites (from artists not mentioned in this thread): Thierry Mailard: Beyond the Ocean Dan Tepfer Trio: Before the Storm Maria Kannegaard: Camel Walk Jack Pescod: Circles Rembrandt Frerichs: Continental Igor Prochazka: Easy Route Robert Mithchell 3io: The Embrace Andrew McCormack Trio: Live in London Christoph Stiefel: Live! Mark Perrenoud Trio: Logo Stefano Bollani: Mi Ritorni In Mente Adrian Frey Trio: Microcosmos Nikolaj Hess: Playin' Benoit Greslebin: Pop Tim Allhoff: Prelude Peter James Trio: Soul Story Link to comment
ElverGun Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 GoGo Penguin: V2.0 British Jazz Trio from Manchester. Have been enjoying the album immensely. As the name suggests this is their second album. One of the better albums of the year. Review from All About Jazz: GoGo Penguin: v2.0 I love GoGo Penguin. I saw them in concert two years ago in Paris. After the show my girlfriend introduced herself to them and had a nice chat (and I didn't go with her because I didn't want to look like a groupie ). Link to comment
ElverGun Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 I'm glad you guys are liking these trios. I'll post more recommendations later. By reading this thread I was able to discover around 10 new artists - I'm hoping I can repay the favor. Link to comment
ElverGun Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 I just "discovered" two artists: Edgar Knecht – Good Morning Lilofee Xan Campos - Orixe Cero, Ectropía Both of them are on Tidal. Link to comment
ElverGun Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 Thanks for sharing. Was travelling and didn't have time to check any of them out. My latest discovery on Qobuz: Igor Gehenot Trio's "Motion". I own both his albums -- pretty good stuff. Definitely try to check out Edgar Knecht. I can't stop listening to his music. That's all I've been playing for the past two days. Wow...just wow!!! Link to comment
ElverGun Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 More discoveries over the long weekend: Francois Ingold Trio - Song Garden Shalosh - The Bell Garden Dan Musselman - Devotion Link to comment
ElverGun Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 A couple of new discoveries. Not piano trios, but close enough (kinda sorta). Link to comment
ElverGun Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 FYI, I just talked about Knecht's latest album on my blog. You'll find a link here: Edgar Knecht – Dance On Deep Waters – Transforming *Traditional Songs into Jazz | musicophilesblog – from Keith Jarrett to Johannes Brahms Great review. I'm glad you are adding more Jazz to the blog. You have no idea how obsessed I am with piano trios. My list of so long that it will take me a while to put it together (so I can post it here). I want to categorize it by how good the artist or album is (as opposed to just posting a huge list of groups\artist). Link to comment
ElverGun Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 Well, I tried to put an organized list together but it was taking too much time, so I'm posting a huge list instead. This is a list of my favorite albums, the music I download to my phone and is always with me. I labeled (genre) these albums as Modern Jazz - almost all of them were released this century. Most of these are piano trios, but there are some quartets in there...and some duos (piano and bass). Abe Rábade - Simetrías Abram Wilson - Jazz Warrior Alex Riel - Get Reil AMC Trio - Thor-Iza Andrew McCormack - Telescope Anne Paceo - Empreintes Arrigo Cappelletti - Trio Arrigo Cappelletti in New York Audun Kleive - Going With The Flow Baptiste Trotignon - Sightseeing Barcode Trio - Licence to Live Ben Waltzer - One Hundred Dreams Ago Ben Winkelman Trio - Odysseys Benedikt Jahnel Trio - Modular Concepts Benjamin Moussay Trio - Swimming Pool Benoit Greslebin - Pop Bernt Moen - Closure Bert Van Den Brink - Bert Van Den Brink Bill Bruford & Michiel Borstlap - In Two Minds Bojan Z Trio - Transpacifik Brian Bromberg - Wood Bryn Roberts - Ludlow Carsten Dahl Trio - Will You Make My Soup Hot & Silver Cedar Walton - The Trio Vol.3 Christianne Neves - Christianne Neves Christian McBride Trio - Already Mentioned Christian Pabst Trio - Days of Infinity Christian Prommer's Drumlesson - Drum Lesson Vol.1 Christoph Stiefel - Big Ship Colin Vallon Trio - Les Ombres Dado Moroni - Two Bass Hits Dark Ivory Tower - The Heart of the Geyser Dan Musselman - Devotion The Dan Tepfer Trio - Oxygen Daniel Szabo - A Song From There Dave Stapleton - When Life Was in Black and White David Arnay - Blues... And Then Some Dimitri Vassilakis -Parallel Lines Drop Trio - Big Dipper Duduka Da Fonseca Trio - Plays Toninho Horta Dusko Goykovich - Ten to Two Blues Edouard Bineau - Exodus Emmet Cohen - Infinity Enrico Zanisi - Keywords Eple Trio - The Widening Sphere Of Influence Esbjörn Svensson Trio - Already Mentioned in this thread Eric Legnini Trio - Trippin' Espen Eriksen Trio - What Took You So Long European Jazz Trio - Norwegian Wood Eve Beuvens - Noordzee François Raulin - Trio Non Tempéré François Laizeau - Musica Callada Frank Harrison Trio -Sideways Frank Woeste Trio - Untold Stories Franz von Chossy - Awakening George Schuller Trio - Life's Little Dramas Giovanni Mirabassi - Anything Glerum Omnibus - Already Mentioned in this thread GoGo Penguin - Already Mentioned in this thread Gordon Johnson - Trios Greg Spero - Acoustic Harold Lopez Nussa Trio - Herencia Hubert Nuss - The Book of Colours Igor Gehenot Trio - Already Mentioned in this thread Hutchinson Andrew Trio - Lost But Not Forgotten Igor Prochazka - Easy Route Ismael Dueñas - Already Mentioned in this thread Ivo Neame Trio Jack Pescod -Circles Jacky Terrasson - Smile Jacob Karlzon 3 -The Big Picture James Uhart - London The Jan Lundgren Trio - European Standards Jarmo Savolainen - Songs for Trio Jarrett Cherner Trio - Burgeoning Jean-Michel Pilc Trio - Welcome Home Jean-Pierre Como - Scenario Jeroen Van Vliet - Red Sun John Law Trio - The Art of Sound Volume 1 Joona Toivanen Trio - At My Side Joserra Senperena - Blues Pasadizoak Julian & Roman Wasserfuhr - Gravity Julie Lamontagne Trio - Facing the Truth Júlio Resende Trio - You Taste Like a Song Kairos 4tet - Statement of Intent Kait Dunton - Mountain Suite Kekko Fornarelli - Room of Mirrors Kit Downes Trio - Golden Lars Winther Trio - Live_2005 Laurent De Wilde - Already mentioned Lorenzo Tucci - Tranety (Live) Luca Mannutza - Longin' Luke Howard Trio - A Dove, A Lion A Coast, A Pirate Maciej Fortuna Trio - Solar Ring Makiko Hirabayashi - Surely Mamiko Kitaura - To Become the Wind Mammal Hands - Animalia Marc Buronfosse - Face the Music Marc Copland - Paradiso Marc Perrenoud Trio - Already mentioned Marek Jakubowski Trio - Already mentioned Maria Kannegaard - Camel Walk Marialy Pacheco Trio - Already mentioned Mário Laginha Trio - Espaço Martial Solal - Longitude Martin Sasse Trio - Here We Come Mathias Algotsson - New Traditions Matthew Halsall - Fletcher Moss Park Michel Reis - Reis Demuth Wiltgen Mirage - Mirage Morten Schantz Trio - Already Mentioned Murat Öztürk - Crossing my Bridge Nathalie Loriers New Trio - Les 3 Petits Singes Neal Miner - Happy Hour Neil Cowley - Already Mentioned Nico Morelli - Nico Morelli Nicola Sergio - Illusions Niels Lan Doky Trio - Cafe En Plein Air Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen - The Art of the Bass Nikolaj Hess - Playin' Nuno Campos - My Debut for the Ones Close to Me OAM Trio - Flow Oliver Kent - Triple Ace Trio Omer Klein - To The Unknown Open Trio - Färger Otto Hejnic Trio - One Paul Bley - One Year After Peter Erskine - The Interlochen Concert Peter Edwards Trio - Safe and Sound Peter James Trio - Visions and Vistas Phronesis - Already Mentioned Pierre-Alain Goualch - DUC Portico Quartet - Isla Ramón Valle Trio - No Escape Rebecca Coupe Franks - Exhibition:Tribute To Joe Henderson Rembrandt Frerichs Trio - A Long Story Short Rémi Panossian Trio - Add Fiction Rémi Vignolo - Exploring the Music of Serge Gainsbourg Robert Balzar - Overnight Robert Mitchell 3io - The Embrace Roberto Di Gioia - Celebrating Klaus Doldinger Romain Collin Trio - The Rise and Fall of Pipokuhn Ronen Itzik - Augmented Reality Roy Assaf - Respect Vol. 1 Rusconi Trio - Scenes and Sceneries Sachiko Yasui - Piano Trio Sai Ghose Trio - Fingers and Toes Sam Yahel - Hometown Sebastian Weiss - Momentum Sébastien Lovato - Music Boox Shalosh - The Bell Garden Shai Maestro Trio - Already mentioned SMaLL Trio - Road Trip Sophia Domancich - DAG Stefan Aeby Trio - Already mentioned Stefan Orins Trio - Bonheur Temporaire Stefano Bollani - Mi Ritorni In Mente Sumrrá - 3 Ao Vivo Sunna Gunnlaugs - Long Pair Bond Thierry Maillard - Already Mentioned Thomas Clausen Trio - Sol Tim Allhoff - Prelude Tim Richards Trio - Twelve by Three Tingvall Trio - Already Mentioned Trio M - The Guest House Tri-Fi - Postcards Trichotomy - The Gentle War Triosence - Already Mentioned Triotonic - Homecoming Trio Elf - 746 Trio Jérôme Beaulieu - Already Mentioned Trio Vue d'Ensemble - 155 Nord Vigleik Storaas - Andre Bilder Vincent Bourgeyx - Again Walter Lang Trio - Softly as in a Morning Sunrise Wolfgang Haffner - Acoustic Shapes Xan Campos - Orixe Cero Xavier Dotras Trio -La Maison Jaune Yaron Herman Trio - Muse I'll put another list together with other piano trios I labeled as "Jazz", "Contemporary Jazz", and "Classic Jazz". Those albums were released before 2000. Link to comment
ElverGun Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 After that last list - we now know! Holy molly what a list! ... and you have more. And then some. I have a couple of playlists on Spotify and Tidal (as long as the one posted above) of trios that I have not been able to fully digest. I just clicked on a couple of songs, liked what I heard, and saved them to a playlist so I can go back and listen to the full album when I finally get a chance. I suppose this helps answer Musicophile's question: It does seem that we are living in the golden age of the piano trio. If not a golden age, it is definitely a great time for those who like to hear three dudes playing the piano, bass, and drums. Link to comment
ElverGun Posted July 19, 2015 Share Posted July 19, 2015 These are from "Contemporary Jazz". The albums are recent releases. Again, mostly piano trios with an exception here and there. The artists on these two lists are included due to the fact that they are exceptionally talented (IMO), because they are playing original compositions, or because they were in the zone when they made these recordings. Aaron Choulai - Ranu Aaron Diehl Trio - Live At The Players Abraham Barrera - Ocaso Adrian Frey Trio - Microcosmos Alan Pasqua - My New Old Friend Alan Broadbent - You And The Night And The Music Aldo Romano - African Flashback Alex Hutton Trio - Cross That Bridge Alexi Tuomarila Trio – Constellation Alfio Origlio - Rircordo Alon Yavnai - Travel Notes Anders Aarum Trio - The Lucky Strike André Ceccarelli - Twenty Armen Donlian, Audun Kleive, Carl Iversen - Trio '87 Abe Rábade Trio - VerSons Benjamin Schaefer Trio - Leaves Like Snow Benny Lackner Trio - Not The Same Bill Swann - Three Bill Carrothers - Shine Ball Billy Hart, Dan Tepfer, Joe Martin - Foreign Territory Bob Gullotti - Planet Safety Bob Mamet Trio - Impromptu Bojan Z - Xenophonia Brian Piper Trio - Terrrriffic! Carl Winther Trio - Contact Carsten Dahl, Mads Vinding, Alex Riel - In Our Own Sweet Way Cesare Picco - My Room Chad Lawson Trio - Unforeseen Chris Minh Doky - Cinematique Close Erase - No. 2 Contrast Trio - Zwei Dag Arnesen - Renascent Dan Cavanagh Trio Daniel Freedman - Daniel Freedman Trio Dave Peck - 3 and 1 David Kikoski - Consequences Diederik Wissels Trio - Tender Is The Night Edgar Knecht - Good Morning Lilofee Ehud Asherie - Swing Set Einar Iversen - Me And My Piano Eliot Zigmund - Long distance Emil Brandqvist Trio - Breathe Out Enrico Zanisi with Joe Rehmer, Alessandro Paternesi - Life Variations FM Trio - Moment Francois Ingold Trio - Fat Free Frank Woeste Trio - Mind At Play Gabriele Pezzoli Trio George Colligan - Living for the City Gerald Clayton - Two-Shade Gordon Johnson - Trios Version 3.0 Graden, Agnas, & Fernqvist - Cembra Greg Burk - Ivy Trio Gwilym Simcock - Reverie At Schloss Elmau Helge Lien Trio - To the Little Radio Hutchinson Andrew Trio - Music Box Ismael Dueñas - Diversions Jamie Reynolds Trio - Time With People Jay Epstein - Easy Company Jay Lawrence Trio - Thermal Strut Jean-Philippe Viret - Le Temps qu'il faut Jeff Boudreaux - Casa Dolce Casa Jeff Hamilton Trio - Red Sparkle Jessica Williams Trio - Inventions Jim Black, Thomas Morgan & Elias Stemeseder - Actuality Jim Watson Trio - The Loop Joe LoCascio - In The City Of Lost Things Jon Scott - Songs from the Procol Harum Book Joona Toivanen -November Joserra Senperena - Dardaren Interpretazioa Juan Sebastián Vázquez, Arturo Valero & Guillermo McGill - Lluvia De Mayo Julia Hülsmann, Marc Muellbauer & Rainer Winch - Trio Julian Waterfall Pollack Trio - Waves of Albion Kari Ikonen Trio Kerem Görsev - Kerem Görsev Lekverk - 21st Century Jump Lynne Arriale - Come Together Majamisty Trio - Love Marco Mezquida - My Friend Marko Marc Copland - Night Whispers - New York Trio Recordings Vol. 3 Martin Ehlers - Swedish Moment Martin Sasse Trio - European Standard Time Mauro Gargano - So, Now Michel Benita - Dream of the Camel Michel Bisceglia - Singularity Misinterprotato - Now For The Free Trio Montmartre - Scandinavian Reminiscence Musicmusicmusic - Everybody Digs Nikolaj Hess - Trio Nikolaj Bentzon - Nexus Oddjob - Koyo Our Park - If Not For You Paolo Birro - Un Bacio A Mezzanotte Phil DeGreg - Down The Middle Pieter de Graaf - Introducing Pieter de Graaf RGG - Unfinished Story Ramberto Ciammarughi - New Music for Trio Ramón Ángel - 7 Mujeres Randy Halberstadt - Parallel Tracks Riccardo Arrighini Trio - Cambio di Marcia Robert Rook Trio - Incompleteness Roberto Tarenzi - Involvingevolvingrevolving Roberto Olzer Trio - Steppin'out Roger Davidson Trio - We Remember Helen Ron Davis Trio - Mungle Music Ron Thomas Trio - Doloroso Sabin Todorov Trio - Inside Story Sébastien Paindestre Trio - Parcours Sergi Sirvent - Munchies. Unexpected Sherrie Maricle Trio - Never Never Land The Splendor - Forest Steve La Spina - ETC Terje Gewelt, Anders Kjellberg & Enrico Pieranunzi - Oslo Thijs Cuppen Trio - Homeground Thomas Fonnesbæk - Sound of My Colors Tim Lapthorn - Natural Language Toby Koenigsberg Trio - Sense Torsten Krill - Time Makes The Tune Trio Ceg - Relativ Attraktiv Trio August - EP Vigleik Storaas Trio - Bilder Wolfgang Maiwald Trio - The Silent Ones Yoko Miwa - Canopy of Stars Ziv Ravitz - Images From Home Link to comment
ElverGun Posted July 19, 2015 Share Posted July 19, 2015 Wow, this will take me months to digest! But impressive!!! It took me a couple of years to find all these artist. I hope to read your opinion on some of them in the coming months. Link to comment
ElverGun Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 Well I'm basing my assessment on sales and sales aren't everything and not the sole determinant of whether we are in a golden age of a particular genre or sub genre of music . There is some truth to your belief of the jazz piano golden age . Sales are just one factor . Just because people aren't listening doesn't mean it's not a golden age. I have not kept up with sales figures. How are classical music sales compared to jazz? Link to comment
ElverGun Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 Jazz does even worse: Jazz Has Become The Least-Popular Genre In The U.S. | The Jazz Line Wow. That is quite depressing. We might be in the middle of the golden age of the trio, but it looks like the members of jazz trios are starving. I hope it is not the same in Europe. Link to comment
ElverGun Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 I have found this link to sales data from 2013 (article in German) which has Jazz at 1.8% of worldwide album sales, way even behind classical. Access to the whole article is not free so I don't know the source. I wonder how these artists manage to survive. Do they have a second job, or do live gigs pay enough to scrape a living? I hope they are doing better with streaming revenue. Since they are not doing for the money, it makes me appreciate their albums even more since they are playing jazz for the love of the music. Link to comment
ElverGun Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 Have started going through this list. So far have heard Aaron Diehl, Bob Mahmet, Julia Hülsmann, Jeff Hamilton & Helge Lien, so much more to do. I'm just curious you don't have Shai Maestro in your list. I really like the guy and just wrote about him on my blog. His drummer is Ziv Ravitz (you have him in the list above): Shai Maestro – This Avishai Cohen Alumni Will Go Places | musicophilesblog – from Keith Jarrett to Johannes Brahms I have both his albums, and I'm waiting to buy his new one. I didn't put him on the list because he had already been mentioned in this thread. I didn't know he was discovered by Cohen...and I didn't know Cohen was discovered by Corea. Link to comment
ElverGun Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 I seem to recall someone mentioning Kekko Fornarelli in this thread somewhere. I have just found him! I've ripped both 'Room full of mirrors' and 'Outrush' from CDs. On the outrush rip, to my ears several of the tracks appear to be distorted, especially the second half of track five, 'what kept you so late'. I don't have the facility to play the cd natively and was just wondering if anyone else had noticed this. I tried ripping it in XLD and dbPoweramp both rips have the issue and now wondering if I should try and return the cd for a refund as it detracts somewhat from the overall listening experience. Thanks Paul Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk I just listened to the track on Apple Music. There is distortion, but I think it is intentional. Kekko is doing an EST impression of sorts. Link to comment
ElverGun Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 I've been listening to this album for the last couple of days: I believe it was his first album (1995)...and I believe it is his best work. Link to comment
ElverGun Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 Another great trio I discovered today... Link to comment
ElverGun Posted August 16, 2015 Share Posted August 16, 2015 FYI, I've just reviewed Triosence and their album Turning Points on my blog: Triosence: Turning Points – Delightful Contemporary Trio Jazz from Germany | musicophilesblog – from Keith Jarrett to Johannes Brahms Another great review. Link to comment
ElverGun Posted August 31, 2015 Share Posted August 31, 2015 I just discovered a new trio album on Qobuz: Thomas Rückert. [ATTACH=CONFIG]20620[/ATTACH] Worth checking out: Parvaneh | Thomas Rückert Trio*– Télécharger et écouter l'album home New to me too. Thanks for the recommendation. Link to comment
ElverGun Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 I'm really loving this right now... Link to comment
ElverGun Posted October 4, 2015 Share Posted October 4, 2015 While I would agree, don't forget to add Monty Alexander, who IMHO is the best jazz piano player alive todayHis music is infectious. After his live performances, the crowd leaves the club dancing. I know, I have done it myself! +1 I started to seriously listen to piano trios because of artists like Medeski Martin & Wood (I suppose they introduced me to the possibilities of a Jazz trio), and then Dave Brubeck and Monty Alexander. I don't know if Monty Alexander is the best jazz piano player alive today...but he certainly deserves an honorable mention. Link to comment
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