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JAF Trio: JAF Trio
ByFrom slowly swinging walking bass passages in "Ninth of the Fifth Floor" through heavy break downs towards the end of "Something New" to driven heads ending on a question mark as presented in the mysterious "Dark Sparkle," the music on JAF Trio tends to know exactly where it wants to go, and the group gets to the point quickly. Bassist Joonas Tuuri's other trio project, Bowman Trio, is a more adequate point of comparison for JAF Trio than Sauros' Superposition. Like his other project, the rather compact structures on JAF Trio share a straightforward nature in common and the trio's interplay remains harmoniously collective rather than deconstructed.
Contrary to Bowman Trio however, the three instrumentalists allow their voices to stretch out further and manifest themselves more physically. Bülow's drum extravaganza against the sax and bass-based ostinato backdrop on "Dark Sparkle" sounds like something from a rock concert (maybe a tad more dynamic), while the jumpy grooves piercing various themes presented over the different charts display dexterous musicianship and reveal shades of hip-hop infusion. Like other We Jazz recording artists, such as Peter Eldh's Koma Saxo or Otis Sandsjö's Y-Otis, the mix of tight beats, decisive bass pops and nimble sax runs appears like a design that has been wrought and polished from head to toes. In contrast to this synthetically constructed notion however, JAF Trio's pulse is alive and kicking in every bar and each beat, begging to be heard.
Jaf Trio offers a brief ride, but it just may be all the more enjoyable for it.
Track Listing
Ninth Row Of The Fifth Floor; Masterpiece; Something New; Nostalgia; Dark Sparkle; Shades Of Tomorrow; Der Er Dig.
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Album information
Title: JAF Trio | Year Released: 2020 | Record Label: We Jazz Records
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Ehran Elisha
Album Review
Friedrich Kunzmann
JAF Trio
We Jazz Records
Adele Sauros
Joonas Tuuri
Frederick Emil Bülow
Peter Eldh
Otis Sandjös