Jazz Articles

Doug Sertl: Beautiful Friendship

by Jack Bowers
July 14, 2013

Here's an interesting concept: an organ trio with trombone (or vice versa), led by Canadian trombonist Doug Sertl with Rick Montalbano at the Hammond B3, Peter Bernstein on guitar and another Canadian, Terry Clarke, in the drum chair. The album was recorded before the millennium and marked time on a shelf until it was released in 2013, an occasion that was, in Sertl's words, “long overdue." Surely, Beautiful Friendship has as much or more to offer than quite a few ...