The Trio 2 [LP]

Cedar Walton Trio - The Trio 2 [LP]

Originally released in 2023. "The three recordings The Trio volumes 1/2/3, offer a now-tested repertoire in principle (carefully selected standards, extremely interesting originals, intense Monk revisitations and a thoughtful Bossanovian digression. And at the same time they give full credit to a group that in a field so beaten but also so peculiar as that of the trio, which always has to reckon with great models-it really seems to have no rivals at present. Most striking is its expressive balance, propitiated as best it could be by a with his astonishing technique, moderately driven and exquisitely multifaceted pianism, always original in every harmonic, melodic and rhythmic detail; plus a percussion (Higgins) now risen to a veritable model of drumming for reduced formations; plus a bass contribution (Williams) clean, essential, fluid."