Kin Trio

Kin Trio: Breathe

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
May 31, 2013

The Kin Trio--saxophonist Sunjae Lee, bassist Andre St. James, drummer Tim DuRoche--call what they do “minimalist bebop." An apparent oxymoron, given that bebop has such maximalist tendencies (exhibit A is trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie's dizzying “Bebop"). They don't mean to be taken so literally, of course. The Kin-men have ably absorbed the sparer offshoots of the bebop impulse--like alto saxophonist Paul Desmond and baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan, swinging in an understated way in a similarly piano-less setting on ...