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Bmx

Bass-less trio BMX started in 2006, intended as an one-off. Its line-up initially inspired by the Motian-Frisell-Lovano trio, BMX soon took on a shape of its own. With mostly original material, the group's focus is on developing songs in real-time at every performance, giving the music a beautiful sense of exploration. Now the debut album, featuring the legendary trumpeter and vocalist Per Jørgensen, is here. "Bergen Open" is the result of the great chemistry shared between these four musicians. Since their initial meeting at the Nattjazz Festival 2007, three tours has followed, leading to a recording date in April 2010

Bergen Open

By Bmx

Label: NORCD
Released: 2011
Track listing: CD1: Bergen Open. CD2: Follow; Giraffe; The Beauty of Bath; Snoopy; Bergen Open & Closed.

BMX: Bergen Open

by John Kelman
January 27, 2011

Tradition, in a living, breathing art form, is something that is continually defined, refined and redefined. When drummer Paul Motian--first coming to fame in pianist Bill Evans' mid-1950s trio--trimmed his quintet of the early 1980s into a bass-less trio featuring then-emergent guitar whiz Bill Frisell and equally on-the-rise saxophonist Joe Lovano, its very first recording, It ...