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Ron Surace

Trio City 2: The Return Of The Trio

By Ron Surace

Label: Southport Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: I'm Beginning to See the Light; Caravan; Deed I Do; Image; Until the Real Thing Comes Along; Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams; My Foolish Heart; Softly As In a Morning Sunrise; Cabin in the Sky; Sister Sadie; Skylark; Funkalero; I'll Be Around; Here and Now.

Ron Surace: Trio City 2: The Return of the Trio

by Eric J. Iannelli
November 21, 2004

The title of this album, pianist Ron Surace's fourth for Chicago-centric Southport Records, sounds like a bad B-movie, a connotation Surace acknowledges with a grin: the cover art features the words digitally imposed on a downtown cinema marquee. And though it avoids the easy clichés and stiff performances found in a lot of second-rate cinema, the ...

Ron Surace: Trio City 2: The Return Of The Trio

by Jim Santella
October 10, 2004

The straight-ahead piano trio that Ron Surace brings to the forum keeps the swing tradition alive while imparting a personal share of the music's qualities. As Tatsu Aoki's soul-stirring bass introduces the group's exotic interpretation of “Caravan," you get the feeling that this familiar face is about to receive a facelift. Sure enough, drummer ...