LUKE STEWART - double bass
BRIAN SETTLES - tenor sax
CHAD TAYLOR - drums, mbira
Called "one of the 25 most influential jazz artists of his generation" by Downbeat Magazine and a member of several earth-shaking ensembles, including Irreversible Entanglementsand Heroes Are Gang Leaders, polymathic bassist Luke Stewart, a creative catalyst on the Washington D. C. (and beyond) music scene for almost two decades, introduces his protean trio with Chicago drum legend Chad Taylor and powerhouse DC saxophonist Brian Settles.
A highly cohesive triumvirate in close communion, the band plays with the conversational ease of longtime, comfortable friends. Untethered to any particular stylistic convention, particularly bebop's head-solo-head format, the music's ebb and flow feels utterly in the moment.
"I approached the recording session as closely as possible to playing a set, arranging the sequence with that in mind, " says Stewart, who was born and raised in Mississippi. "Like a set compositions are coupled by moments of free improvisation, but that free improv is contextualized by what happened before and after. It's a journey, and the recording session reflects that. "
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