Jazz Articles about The Wee Trio

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The Wee Trio with Fabian Almazán: Climb

by Geno Thackara
April 17, 2025

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The Wee Trio: Full of Surprises

by Geno Thackara
January 27, 2017

Don't be fooled by the name. The members of the Wee Trio are normal-looking and normal-sized guys, their ambition if anything is deluxe, and their compositional scope virtually limitless. While such a moniker can only keep them humble--not that they'd seem to need the help--they've always kept an outsized willingness to follow fascinating ideas and embrace the unexpected. Picture Al Pacino's sneaky lawyer in The Devil's Advocate explaining his unassuming appearance: “I'm the little guy. They don't see me comin.'" ...

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The Wee Trio: Wee +3

by Dan Bilawsky
December 7, 2016

The Wee Trio delivered quite a bit of variety over the course of its first four albums. The first two--Capitol Diner, Vol. I (Bionic Records, 2008) and Capitol Diner, Vol. II: Animal Style (Bionic Records, 2010)--established the musical ground and syntax that are part and parcel of this three-way partnership; Ashes To Ashes: A David Bowie Intraspective (Bionic Record, 2012) demonstrated much of what can be done to mutate and honor David Bowie's music, almost foretelling the growth of Bowie-inflected ...

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The Wee Trio: Live at the Bistro

by Luigi Sforza
October 20, 2014

La bella copertina dell'ultimo CD del Wee Trio--in puro stile fumettistico pop art, alla Roy Lichtenstein, comprensivo di onomatopee--rappresenta i tre musicisti nell'atto di suonare. La musica poi è un'esperienza dinamica sfaccettata, in sintonia con le possibili declinazioni di una società in continuo movimento. L'accostamento tra pop art e Live at the Bistro -disco che fotografa la performance del gruppo nell'omonimo locale di St. Louis ad un paio d'anni di distanza da Ashes to Ashes: a David Bowie ...

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The Wee Trio: Ashes To Ashes - A David Bowie Intraspective

by Glenn Astarita
February 26, 2012

Vibraphonist James Westfall participated with several New Orleans-based musicians to cover the music of pop icon David Bowie and took the concept further by using this premise for The Wee Trio's third album. The band projects youthful vigor along the lines of The Bad Plus and Medeski, Martin & Wood; firmly rooted in the jazz vernacular, the trio adheres to Bowie's famous melodies and song forms, all enacted with jazzy variations and plentiful doses of improvisation. “1984" is ...

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The Wee Trio: Ashes to Ashes: A David Bowie Intraspective

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 3, 2012

Rock e jazz, storia lunga e complicata. Tanti flirt, brusche rotture e un solo terreno di pace: il tributo, l'omaggio, la rivisitazione. Fra gli innumerevoli musicisti che si sono cimentati in esperimenti di questo tipo - ascoltati soprattutto negli ultimi due decenni - dobbiamo aggiungere il Wee Trio con questo Ashes to Ashes, un progetto le cui fondamenta si devono a Cliff Haines, eclettico chitarrista jazz al quale venne l'idea di radunare un gruppo di musicisti di New Orleans per ...

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The Wee Trio: Capitol Diner Vol. 2: Animal Style

by Mark F. Turner
March 18, 2010

Based loosely in New York, The Wee Trio's origins form a cross-section of the United States, with drummer Jared Schonig from Los Angeles, vibraphonist James Westfall living in New Orleans and bassist Dan Loomis hailing from St. Louis. Notwithstanding that there isn't an abundance of vibraphone-centered recordings such as Joe Locke's For the Love of You (E1 Music, 2010) and Stefon Harris' Urbanus (Concord Music Group, 2009), The Wee Trio holds high the mallet-based banner in good form, showing itself ...