Monday, May 07, 2007

Identikit jazz trios

Went to hear the Bobo Stenson Trio (left) in Norwich last night. Technically wonderful but curiously uninvolving music. They are one of a growing number of identikit jazz piano trios. They all come from Scandinavia, are all squeaky-clean superb musicians, all have ECM recording contracts, all play somewhere on a continuum between Bill Evans and free jazz, and all drink the same brand of mineral water between numbers.

1 comments:

Cursed Tea said...

You need to come to New Orleans - no self respecting jazzer here ever drinks mineral water between sets!!
They play highly involving music!!!