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Dynamic trio plus guests make a thriving quartet
Two recent collaborative albums showcase the finest avant-garde talent of a decade, explains CHRIS SEARLE
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Trio 3 and Jason Moran
Refraction — Breakin’ Glass (Intakt CD 217)
Trio 3 and Vijay Iyer
Wiring (Intakt CD 233)
IN BOTH these albums there are two generations converging and creating patterns of music that cross the lives of four astonishing musicians: a septuagenarian avant-garde trio plus the influx of much younger pianists from very different roots.
The veteran Trio 3 have been playing together almost as long as they have been playing.
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