Contemporary piano trios
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Topic: Contemporary piano trios
Posted By: js
Subject: Contemporary piano trios
Date Posted: 20 Feb 2013 at 9:06pm
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I've been noticing for a while now, how many piano trios we have in our Contemporary section. I was wondering if some of you could help me get a little organized on which ones are the most important, which ones are the most popular, influential etc. I've listened to a lot of these artists, and have been impressed with a lot of them, but after a while some of the names just run together.
In general, an open conversation about piano trios that fall into the Contemporary tag, or ocassionally the post bop, nu jazz or other tags |
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Posted By: snobb
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2013 at 2:09am
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Trying to classify European contemporary jazz trios I could devide them into two main streams. More significant (and influential) are Swedish EST clones or influenced (since EST were absolute supergroup in that style at their time). This stream is dominated around Nordic countries, Germany,Poland and in part UK. Sound names are (em) (wollny schaefer kruse) (Germany), Germany -based Tingwall Trio, Marcin Wasilewski Trio (Poland), Phronesis (UK),Bobo Stenson Trio (Sweden) . This kind of music are usually concentrated around German ECM and ACT labels and some domestic Scandinavian labels. The other stream is French and Southern European trios, as rule not influenced by "Nordic sound" and representing more traditional post-bop rooted music, sometimes with nu jazz traces
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Posted By: Kazuhiro
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2013 at 7:42am
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I think that Slava almost explained the recommendation about the piano trio. The definition about the PF contemporary which we have will be perfect. However, I think the words called the contemporary to have possibilities to often make a genre vague. As a personal opinion. If I interpret contemporary jazz, it thinks that music such as Pete Rugulo and Werner Muller is basic. And I think that I may be OK even if the piano trio to play an active part belongs to post bop recently. I do not think that a piano trio playing an active part has only contemporary recently. In the past, I think Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea to have done it as a method of the expression. Probably the atmosphere may be handed down to a listener because European jazz is introduced and has begun to be colonized. My opinion may be wrong.
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Posted By: idlero
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2013 at 9:02am
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EST is indeed THE leading name in contemporary jazz. IMHO other significant names beside the already mentioned ones are : Tord Gustavsen, Nik Bartsch, Not always playing ih a trio format but for sure belonging to the same category at least with some of his music is Bugge Wesseltoft Let's not forget US with at least two leading names : |The Bad Plus and Brad Mehldau with Vijay Iver rising fast ------------- I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that it's extremely predictable, it's a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again ... Ken Burns |
Posted By: Abraxas
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2013 at 11:41am
| Argentina really abounds of piano trios, I should gather info and names and post some here. |
Posted By: js
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2013 at 11:59am
| Thanks for the input everyone. Two other Contemporary pianists who got my attention over the last year are Robert Glasper and Kurt Rosenwinkel. |
Posted By: snobb
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2013 at 1:50pm
Yes, Vijay Iyer is really one of brightest new generation contemporary pianist just not so much realated with classic piano trio format. Still his trio albums are between best sub-genre albums I think ( his other works cover more world fusion or more advanced jazz )
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idlero wrote:Posted By: Abraxas
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2013 at 4:27pm
Yeah, Glasper, great stuff! And BadBadNotGood
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Posted By: idlero
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2013 at 2:19pm
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..and Jason Moran ------------- I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that it's extremely predictable, it's a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again ... Ken Burns |
Posted By: js
Date Posted: 01 May 2013 at 1:42pm
| Martin Tingvall (Tingvall Trio) is another pianist who is introducing a new more high energy style of Contemporary Jazz. |
Posted By: BlueNote
Date Posted: 12 Oct 2013 at 7:27am
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Does anybody know this one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9iAKWNPut4" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9iAKWNPut4 ------------- We lay on our backs, looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when He made life so sad. - Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac |
Posted By: js
Date Posted: 12 Oct 2013 at 7:33am
| ^ thats a new one on me, we'll go ahead and look into adding him to the site. |
Posted By: snobb
Date Posted: 12 Oct 2013 at 1:37pm
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