Yves Theiler, Marton Juhasz & Marc Mezgolits
Release Date: 24 February 2023
Label: TCB Jazz
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 725095371025
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Description
Reinvention of jazz standards is certainly what the Theiler - Mezgolits - Juhasz Standards Trio is about here. Each member, having mastered their craft, eschews the possibility of "treading water*, with the command to make it new. Indeed, they do.
Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein, Jimmy Van Heusen and Richard Rogers' music from the 1930s sounds as contemporary as any modern jazz composed and performed today. Check out "All the Things You Are" or "You and the Night and the Music," both are presented in the same fashion as the classic Bill Evans trios. Their delivery comes to our ears balanced like an equilateral triangle.
This approach of balance/counterbalance is heard throughout to recording and is proof the trio has absorbed these traditional songs completely and are at liberty to reinvent them. "Stolen Moments" has a hip and halting swing where time signatures are constantly changing. This has the effect of keeping listeners, and I suspect, the trio on the qui vive. Elsewhere, the stripped-down version of "Falling in Love With Love" comes across with a childlike naivety where the trio extracts the essence of the composition. There is a joy captured in these reinvigorated standards that propels them into the next century.
Tracklisting
Yuri Storioni, Dominik Schurmann & Jorge Rossy
Richard Galliano New York Tango Trio
Charles Lloyd Quartet
Yves Theiler, Marton Juhasz & Marc Mezgolits
Su Rossy Girod, Nat Su, Jorge Rossy
Andres Jimenez Trio
My Lena
Klaus Koenig Jazz Live Trio
Nigel Price Organ Trio
Conrad Herwig
Norma Winstone & Kit Downes
Oded Tzur
Su Rossy Girod, Nat Su, Jorge Rossy
Jonathan Salvi Arugula Sextet
Bob Baldwin
Steven Nichols
