Bluth/Messina/Chattin

Bluth/Messina/Chattin: Formations

by AAJ Staff
October 1, 2000

The current standard for piano trio music was largely set in the '60s. Recordings by the Bill Evans Trio and the Wynton Kelly Trio, for example, established basic paradigms that have persisted until today. Today's popular trios led by young pianists such as Brad Mehldau and Jacky Terrason, for example, derive much of their style from this influential period.

Formations, a trio outing led by pianist Larry Bluth, falls in much the same category. It builds off jazz standards, either ...