Trio Friedrich-Herbert-Moreno

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Trio Friedrich-Herbert-Moreno / Jere Laukkanen's Finnish Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra: Surfacing / Jere Laukkanen's Finnish Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra

by C. Michael Bailey
December 1, 2000

The Subatomic. Trio Friedrich-Herbert-Moreno music might best be compared to that of Mike Nock's Naxos Jazz trio recording, Not We But One. That is, it has a structured, free-wheeling sound pregnant with personality and panache. This is progressive trio music that should be considered with that of pianists Paul Bley and Uri Caine. All pieces, save one (Ellington's “Azure") are originals, all introspectively extroverted. A paradox speaking to an enigma about an iconoclast. This music is a superb, poorly behaved ...