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Release Date: 23 May 2025
Label: Discus Music
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5051078020020
Genres: Jazz
Description
Small Blue was formed in the summer of 2023. I wanted to create a vehicle for my ever-growing catalogue of compositions in the classic jazz piano trio format, which I'd never used before. It also gave me the opportunity to work with two of my favourite musical colleagues. While I've spent a good portion of my musical life playing completely improvised music, I spend a huge amount of time sitting at the piano writing tunes. It's both a therapeutic process and very satisfying creative outlet, and over the years I have ended up with notebooks full of pieces. Exploring this repertoire with two such sympathetic and creative collaborators has been a joy. Marianne and David bring a huge range of experience and a really wide frame of reference to the table when we play together, taking my ideas on sonic journeys that consistently surprise and delight me. The music can be by turns lyrical, atmospheric, groovy, and mischievous.
Most of the tunes have a back story, often being inspired by novels or poems I've read, art I've seen, or places I've visited. - Martin Pyne
David Beebee: piano
Marianne Windham: bass
Martin Pyne: drums
Tracklisting
Army Of Briars
Keith Tippett & Matthew Bourne
Laura Jurd & Paul Dunmall
Theo May's Odd Unit
Charlotte Keeffe
Ron Caines / Martin Archer Axis
Keith & Julie Tippett - Couple In Spirit
Small Blue
Roland Kirk Quartet
Marion Brown
Trilok Gurtu, Simon Phillips & NDR Bigband
Thomas Marek Trio
Raf Ferrari Quartet
Walter Davis Jr.
Small Blue
Michele Polga
