Jazz Articles about McWain, Balgochian & Cook

McWain, Balgochian & Cook: Vigil

by Nic Jones
September 8, 2006

The “classic" piano trio need not result in music high in gloss and technique and low in stimulating listening, as these three players prove on Vigil. Their music comes from somewhere other than the cocktail lounge, though hazarding a guess as to where might be a little fraught, especially as, on this evidence, the trio is intent on getting as far away from that lounge as is humanly possible.

Although this is in essence a trio of equals and thus ...