Jazz Arts Trio: Swing of Many Colors

For the most part Jazz Arts Trio’s Swing of Many Colors presents relatively sedate recreations of recordings by some of jazz’s most famous piano trio greats, including m: Ahmad Jamal, m: Red Garland, m: Oscar Peterson, and m: Keith Jarrett.

Clearly a labor of love, each tune is meticulously reproduced with the fine attention to detail only a pet project can achieve. All three players are astute practitioners and their devotion to the trio form bleeds through, especially on pieces like “Night Train,” All the Things You Are” and, “Matrix.” Equally apparent is their own satisfaction in solving the difficult puzzle they crafted for themselves–for it cannot be said that navigating the maze of notes and rhythmic inventiveness of the Oscar Peterson, Keith Jarrett, or m: Chick Corea trios was an easy task…