Are we living in the Golden Age of the Jazz Piano Trio?

[Musicophile]

One more discovery that I really enjoy, the German Triosence:

 

Turning Points | Triosence – Télécharger et écouter l'album

 

I really enjoy this album from 2013 and will certainly check out their earlier production as well. Unfortunately apparently not available in highres, but sounds good in redbook as well.

[Musicophile]

Hi,

 

Architectures by Mirabassi was published by Sketch a label created by Philippe Ghielmetti that folded some years ago, so yes, they are quite difficult and pricey to find if you're looking for the original French cds. However, the catalogue was bought by Atelier Sawano in Japan, which has now a Sketch Collection (Sketch Series | Atelier Sawano) where you can find the Mirabassi.

 

Ghielmetti also created later on the label Minium which has also folded but some recordings can still be found online (I think Qobuz has some) and has now three labels: Illusions, Sans Bruits and Visions Fugitives.

 

(illusions)

sans bruit | creative music(s) and jazz

Vision Fugitive english

 

Cheers,

 

Pierre

Thanks Pierre, really helpful.

 

Are there any albums on top of the Miabassi from these labels that you would recommend checking out?

[Musicophile]

Recently discovered a trio album by 3 French (one of the being Italian actually), where they only play cover songs of the late 1960s:

 

Flower Power – Télécharger et écouter l'album

 

 

Ever wanted to hear "Je t'aime, moi non plus", "Mr Tambourine Man", or "Bridge Over Troubled Water" played by a Jazz trio?

 

This is for you. Quite well recorded as well.

 

Worth checking out.

[Musicophile]

Amazon USA:

 

Amazon.com: tingvall trio: Music

 

Amazon UK:

 

Amazon.co.uk: tingvall trio: Music

 

I think there is no high res available for DL.

 

Some of the best are out of print.

 

Roch

Yes, unfortunately the Tingvalls are recording with a small German label that seems to think that downloads are still MP3 , and hasn't really embraced high-res at all.

 

I just noticed I never mentioned Martin Brunner in this thread. I only recently discovered his 2009 album "Behind the Clouds", and like it very much:

 

 

Music | www.martinbrunner.cz

 

His albums are available as FLAC downloads here:

 

ARTA - Položka zboží

[Musicophile]

Qobuz: "Not available in your country" Can't find it anywhere

Where do you live? Sometimes if you send Qobuz a mail they'll allow you in nevertheless.

 

Otherwise just buy the CD,e.g.

 

Triosence: Turning Points: CD Music Details: HeartlandMusic.com 887654465924

[Musicophile]

To add a few...

Keith Jarrett Trio.........Somewhere

Eldar Djangirov...........Nature Boy

Helge Lien Trio...........Natsukashii

Kenny Barron.............Thrasher Dream Trio

Chick Corea...............Further Explorations

Hi Realhifi,

 

I kind of excluded Keith, Kenny and Chick from this thread in my opening, not because they are not great artists (Somewhere is just great for example), but because I wanted this to focus more on the next generation of artists that emerged in the last 15-20 years.

 

Thanks for sharing Eldar Djangirov. He absolutely flew under my radar so far, and I just checked out his website. I really like his new Breakthrough album. I'm also amazed that the same young guy also plays Brahms and Bach.

 

I'm just back from a virtual shopping trip on Qobuz:

 

Currently downloading are:

 

Hadouk Trio Live at Fip (redbook) - thanks guys for the recommendation

 

Jan Lundgren Trio: The Flowers Of Sendal (24/96) - the latest album of this Swedish pianist that I really liked on his solo album "Man in the Fog".

 

And two more earlier Triosence albums: First Enchantment and Away For A While, both redbook.

 

Will report back after more intensive listening sessions.

[Musicophile]

First impression from both Triosence albums: Amazing! Highly recommended. And well recorded.

[Musicophile]

For those of you who like Bobo Stenson and Esbjörn Svensson here is another Swedish pianist: Jan Lundgren Trio - Flowers Of Sendai.

Hope you like it as much as I do.

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Fully agree. Did you get the 24/96?

[Musicophile]

The new, long awaited (at least by me) Helge Lien Trio album just came out:

 

Badgers And Other Beings

 

 

Badgers And Other Beings

 

It is available in a variety of formats, up to 24/192, and even on Vinyl as a limited 180g edition.

 

The downloads can be found on Qobuz (redbook only unfortunately) and Highresaudio and Linn for the highres PCM versions.

 

The premium charged for Highres is hefty (€21 vs. €9.59 for the redbook at Qobuz), but as a big Helge Lien fan I obviously went for the 24/192.

 

I still preferred Hello Troll (2008) over Natsukashii (2011), and never really warmed to Kattenslager, his solo album in 2012, but here we have again a winner.

 

Highly recommended.

[Musicophile]

Discovered this recently, a young Italian pianist playing here with the great Palle Danielson.

 

Claudio Filippini Trio: Breathing in Unison. Not a 5* album to me, but still worth discovering and a lot of beautiful moments. He still is very young (born in 1982), so I expect great things to come.

 

 

I need to check out his two earlier albums as well, Facing North and Enchanted Garden.

 

Here's some reading about the guy:

 

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/claudio-filippini-facing-north-claudio-filippini-by-robin-arends.php#.U5AaafmSx8E

 

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[Musicophile]

Not a trio, but great Jazz pianist!...

 

Play Blue - Oslo Concert | Paul Bley*– Télécharger et écouter l'album

 

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Roch

Great album. I've taken the liberty of creating a separate thread on this, I think it's really worth it and hope you don't mind.

[Musicophile]

Indeed! I can't get enough of these guys. In fact, the title track was playing in my head was I got up this morning

Thank you Musicophile!

Actually, credit here goes to this forum, where I discovered this group, thanks to PewterTA and Wkhanna!

 

My preferred Tingvall is "In Concert".

[Musicophile]

Sorry for the extremely late reply, I'm not coming around here often. I would have to listen again to a few of the albums I have to give a fair advice and refresh my memory, however I can say that the Carrothers on Sketch are superb, I would particularly recommend Armistice 1918. Carrothers is very underestimated, which is a shame as his style is very personal...he just makes beautiful music. I like very much Itinéraire Imaginaire by Stephan Oliva, his solo album on Illusion (Film Noir) is great too. Oliva always produces interesting music, and often great music going from the jazz tradition to really avant-garde.

I would add the Mal Waldron with Lacy and Avenel to the list. I think there is a soundcloud page for atelier sawano, so you can have a listen before ordering.

 

I also have heard very good review of both records by Graillier but I haven't heard them.

 

Cheers,

 

Pierre

 

update: I forgot to add something about the label Minium, a box set was released in 2006 called Standard Visit which contained 6cd all by pianists (see: http://www.discogs.com/Various-Standard-Visit/release/3900704 ) with the addition of a bonus cd with versions of Lonely Woman by Ornette Coleman. it shows up sometimes on Ebay, really good box set.

Thanks Pierre. Will look into all of the above. And hope we see you back here with more good recommendations sooner!

[Musicophile]

Thanks for this thread. I've discovered some new pianists and rediscovered a few titles I'd forgotten about.

 

I'd like to add a couple to the list, first being Marc Copland - he's released a slew of trio, quartet, duet and solo titles for various European labels, many of which are nearly impossible to get.

 

His most recent release was as a member of the John Abercrombie Quartet - 39 Steps on ECM (which is available as a 24/88.2 download).

 

Second is Denny Zeitlin. He was a favorite of Bill Evans and opened for him many times. I'd start with the Mosaic 3CD box of his mid-'60s studio recordings for Columbia which include a number of unissued tracks from the original sessions.

Thanks.

 

Need to check out Copland.

 

On Zeitlin, I have a handful of albums. The reason why I haven't brought him up here is because I wanted this thread to focus more on the new contemporary generation of trios, and Zeitlin born 80 years ago didn't fit exactly that description :-) But no need to be dogmatic, so please keep them coming!

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Anyone have any trio/jazz on DSD to recommend?

Most of the recent recordings seem to be high-res PCM rather than DSD; so your best chance are SACD remasters of older recordings, e.g.

 

The Oscar Peterson Trio-We Get Requests-DSD | Acoustic Sounds

 

Bill Evans Trio-Moon Beams-DSD | Acoustic Sounds

[Musicophile]

Enrico Pieranunzi has recently release a new album, called Stories:

 

 

I wouldn't call it his best album ever, but it is still a sold 4* performance worth checking out.

 

You can download it directly from the label here:

 

Stories - Enrico Pieranunzi with Scott Colley, Antonio Sanchez

[Musicophile]

Sonic quality?

Good but not outstanding.

[Musicophile]

Tingvall Trio has just published a new album. Will have to look into it:

 

Beat | Tingvall Trio – Télécharger et écouter l'album

[Musicophile]

Third track in and I like what I'm hearing. Great SQ too. Happy they jumped into HiRez.

Thanks for the test. Downloading the 24/96 from Qobuz as we speak, together with the recent Cosi fan tutte by Nezet-Seguin, to leverage a 15% discount code Qobuz sent out.

 

If somebody else wants to use it, it's 15% off immediately for orders above 40€:

 

9TQ9HA6Z

[Musicophile]

Slightly disappointed that there's not even a booklet with "BEAT".

 

And what an ugly cover. Totally psychedelic/new age.

 

Music is nice though. Some of it I wouldn't necessarily call Jazz though. Will give it some more airtime and report back.

[Musicophile]

What do you think of the "Così"? I love the work (one of the first operas I ever performed), but haven't heard much about this recording.

Haven't heard it yet. It got great reviews in several places, including a nomination for Gramophone awards, and I generally like Nezet-Seguin a lot, so I bought it "blindly", as I really have very little high-res opera in contemporary recordings.

[Musicophile]

Fair enough - I may jump in "blindly", as well

Quick comment, and sorry for others to the OT: just finished my first casual listening. The Gramophone review concludes "All most enjoyable" I'd second this.

 

The orchestral playing with the small ensemble of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe is very transparent and a highlight, but I still need to take some more time to get to know the singers a bit better for a proper judgment.

 

Overall, I'm happy with the purchase. It won't replace good old Karajan's reference version, but it is my only recent Cosi with the exception of Jacobs which is already 16 years old.

 

Plus, somebody needs to show the record industry that there is a market for new highres opera productions. There have been far too few.

 

And from now on I promise I refocus this thread on topic again. Welcome Aaro, and thanks for contributing. Have never heard of Onishi but will certainly check her out.

[Musicophile]

Anyone have some thoughts about this new Tingvall Trio album? Sonics, performance etc?

 

Beat | Tingvall Trio*– Télécharger et écouter l'album

 

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See post no. 160-164, just before the little parenthesis on Mozart.

 

It's good, not very jazzy in many moments, but beautiful melodies. And the highres sounds really quite nice.

[Musicophile]

See post no. 160-164, just before the little parenthesis on Mozart.

 

It's good, not very jazzy in many moments, but beautiful melodies. And the highres sounds really quite nice.

Just checked some basic analytics. DR is 10-11, so average, but it seems to be true highres:

 

[Musicophile]

Here is one more 3 with a big E.S.T influence.

 

Do you happen to have the 24/96 download? Is it worth the hefty premium?

 

naimlabel.com - Touch and Flee