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Triology: The Slow Road
by Jack Bowers
As if having three of Canada's most cherished and honored jazz musicians together in a recording studio were not enough, that trio--best known by its collective name, Triology--chooses to travel The Slow Road with one of America's national treasures, the incomparable tenor saxophonist Scott Hamilton. When it comes to lovely music lovingly conceived and performed, it seldom gets much better than this. On the other hand...The Slow Road is for the most part precisely that: ballads, waltzes, ...
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by Pierre Giroux
In The Slow Road, the Canadian trio Triology--comprised of pianist Miles Black, guitarist Bill Coon, and bassist Jodi Proznick--joins forces with the inimitable tenor saxophonist Scott Hamilton to present a recording that swings with warmth, restraint, and unfailing musicality. This is chamber jazz at its most elegant, invoking the refined spirit of classic drummerless trios such as Oscar Peterson's early unit, the Nat King Cole Trio, and the telepathic interplay of Ahmad Jamal's 1950s groups. The ...
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by Dave Nathan
American clarinetist Brad Terry spends a good part of his time working in Poland, a fertile ground for jazz. One of his more impressive accomplishments was the discovery of three young Polish jazz musicians who play far beyond their years and bringing them to the United States for a tour and recording session. And young they were when this album was cut in September of 2000. Pianist Mateusz Kolakowski and drummer Tomek Torres were 16 and bassist Michal Baranski, 14. ...
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