Release Date: 02 December 2013
Label: Jazz Cat Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 0799665804183
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Description
'Looking Forward, Looking Back' is the third album by Threeway, bassist/composer Ben Crosland's chamber jazz trio, featuring Steve Lodder on piano and keyboards and Steve Waterman on trumpet and flugelhorn. The album also features star vibraphonist Jim Hart.
After expanding the band into a sextet for the Brass Group recording of 'An Open Place', Crosland has returned to the trio format for this album, albeit with a twist - it features vibraphonist Jim Hart, as a special guest on half of the tracks. The adding of Hart's virtuoso vibes playing brings an added percussive edge to the music and variety to the album's sound texture.
After leading his quartet, quintet and octet for fifteen years, Crosland formed the trio in 2004 with his two long-term associates, Waterman and Lodder, in order to explore the subtle and open possibilities of a group without drums. The trio approaches improvisation in a subtle manner; the interplay between the players creates a natural intensity combined with an acute sensitivity to dynamics.
Personnel: Ben Crosland (bass), Steve Lodder (piano, keyboards), Steve Waterman (trumpet, flugelhorn), Jim Hart (vibraphone)
"A chamber trio that generates intimacy and heat." - MOJO
"Three stellar musicians...the reactions and interplay are as near to perfection as anyone could want." - Jazzwise
Tracklisting
Ben Crosland Quintet
Ben Crosland
Threeway & John Etheridge
John Etheridge Trio North
Ben Crosland
Ben Crosland Quintet
Ben Crosland Quartet & Alan Skidmore
Adrian Ingram - Ben Crosland Quartet, Jim Mullen & Eryl Roberts
Sultan Stevenson
John Patitucci
Tommy Whittle & Alan Barnes
Xhosa Cole
John Clayton & Mulgrew Miller
George Cables
Sylvaine Helary & Orchestre Incandescent
The Exu
