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| 1. | John's Blues
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| 2. | Those Pretty Eyes
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| 3. | Travels
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| 4. | Seven Steps to Heaven
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| 5. | Periwinkle
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| 6. | Time to Smile
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| 7. | Dark
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| 8. | The Girl from Ipanema
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| 9. | Laverne
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| 10. | The Disappeared
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| 11. | Voodoo
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| 12. | Ball Square
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Jazz
Recorded: Greywood Studio, Denver, Colorado (7/5/2002)
Big Swing Trio
Andy Weyl - Piano, Producer
Mark Diamond - Bass, Producer
Paul Romaine - Drums, Producer
* Andy Katz - Photography
* Andy O. - Liner Notes
* Fred Wesley & the Horny Horns - Liner Notes
* Jill Fredericksen - Design, Layout Design
Despite the name of the group, this CD does not feature a trio playing swing-era tunes, but the music always swings. Pianist Andy Weyl, bassist Mark Diamond, and drummer Paul Romaine, who have worked together in Colorado for many years, perform a dozen songs by pianists, including four originals from Weyl. The music ranges from an opening blues and Horace Silver's waltz "Those Pretty Eyes" to an inventive version of "Seven Steps to Heaven," an introspective "Dark," a 7/4 transformation of "The Girl from Ipanema," and obscure tunes from Freddie Redd, Sonny Clark, and Andrew Hill. The close and immediate communication among the three musicians attests to their large amount of experience playing together. Excellent modern mainstream jazz.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
"Big Swing Trio is refreshingly original in its straight-ahead/classic approach. Each song in this collection entertains. A first class act, these musicians have it together. Big Swing Trio's TRAVELS is a memorable journey for the jazz listening audience."
---Lee Prosser, JazzReview.com
"This is a trio that deals in purism. Their use of their combined instrumental intonation is like a voice with a bursting vigor, dominating & transcending the CD project itself. There is a nice rendering of musical 'conversation' within the trio, ala some of the earlier renderings by the Evans aggregations. This is refined jazz for discriminate listeners.
--- George W. Carroll The Musicians' Ombudsman, ejazznews.com
"Travels" is the first recording from the "Big Swing Trio" and offers aural evidence of a 20-year journey for Paul Romaine, Mark Diamond and Andy Weyl. The name is somewhat misleading, in that people sometimes think the group is limited to playing "swing" music. Be it Latin, ballads, funky or "free" their music swings! Years of performing together have led them to achieve a powerful feeling that can only be termed as "The Big Swing"!
The name Big Swing Trio implies small-group swing; in other words, the sort of small groups that Benny Goodman, Fats Waller, Coleman Hawkins, Art Tatum, and others led during jazz's swing era (roughly 1935-1945, give or take a few years). But stylistically, the Big Swing Trio isn't swing in the way that the Benny Goodman Trio or the Nat "King" Cole Trio were swing. The Big Swing Trio -- Andy Weyl on acoustic piano, Mark Diamond on upright bass, and Paul Romaine on drums -- has focused on hard bop and post-bop (two styles of jazz that came along after the swing era). Their sound isn't a '30s or early '40s sound, but rather, is firmly planted in the straight-ahead acoustic jazz of the '50s and '60s; and many of the songs that they perform (such as Sonny Clark's "Voodoo," Horace Silver's "Those Pretty Eyes," and the Miles DavisVictor Feldman standard "Seven Steps to Heaven") were composed long after the swing era ended. In fact, Weyl, Diamond, and Romaine have acknowledged that their name is "somewhat misleading, in that people think we are limited to playing 'swing' music;" however, they're quick to add that even though they aren't really swing, their hard bop and post-bop does swing. And that part isn't misleading at all; they aren't swing in the GoodmanArtie ShawDuke EllingtonCount Basie sense, but they are definitely a hard-swinging (and very straight-ahead) group. As a pianist, Weyl has been influenced by improvisers who include Silver, McCoy Tyner, Bud Powell, Cedar Walton, and Kenny Barron (among others).
Although the Big Swing Trio was officially formed in Denver, CO, in the early 2000s, the musicians had known each other since at least the early '80s. Weyl, Diamond, and Romaine are all veterans of the Denver jazz scene; Weyl and Diamond played together as sidemen on albums by singer Mary Ann Moore and tenor saxophonist Keith Oxman, and all three of them frequently crossed paths in Denver jazz venues. In July 2002, the Big Swing Trio recorded their debut album, Travels, which was released by the independent, Colorado-based Capri label the following year.
---Alex Henderson, All Music Guide
Styles: Hard Bop |
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