Piano-less trios

[docbop]

I just picked up the Lee Konitz album Motion its a piano-less trio with Lee, Elvin Jones, and bass player whose name escapes me. I really like this format and wondered if ya'll could recommend other similar trio albums horn, bass, drums.

[jazzbluescat]

Check out Joe Lovano's trio fascination w/Dave Holland and Elvin Jones. Lovano has other excellent trio recordings, I just can't recall the titles at the moment.

[HutchFan]

Some of my favorite sax/bass/drum trios:
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- J.D. Allen - I Am, I Am
- Joe Henderson - State of the Tenor, Vols. 1 & 2
- Elvin Jones (w/ Joe Farrell on tenor) - The Ultimate Elvin Jones
- Dave Liebman - Ghosts
- Dave Liebman (We Three) - Three for All
- Tony Malaby - Adobe
- Sonny Rollins - Way Out West
- Sonny Rollins - Freedom Suite
- Archie Shepp - Steam
- Steve Lacy - The Holy La
- Steve Lacy - The Window

[HutchFan]

Originally Posted by jazzbluescat

Check out Joe Lovano's trio fascination w/Dave Holland and Elvin Jones. Lovano has other excellent trio recordings, I just can't recall the titles at the moment.

Lovano's Sounds of Joy is another good sax trio.

[flat5]

Sonny Rollins - A night at the Village Vanguard 1957

Sonny Rollins - Freedom Suite 1958

Sonny Rollins - Our Man in Jazz 1962
(except Don Cherry is added on pocket trumpet)

Ornette Coleman has made some trio records and some with Don Cherry (or other horns) added.

[Mark of Cenla]

Joshua Redman did a couple of those. One is called Back East, but I do know the name of the other one. Peace and goodwill.

[walkin]

Here`s one with trumpet/bass/drums



and sax/bass/drums

[jazzbluescat]

Sonny Rollin's EAST BROADWAY RUN DOWN is tenor trio, with the addition of Freddie Hubbard; an amazing recording!

[jazz oud]

Originally Posted by docbop

I just picked up the Lee Konitz album Motion its a piano-less trio with Lee, Elvin Jones, and bass player whose name escapes me. I really like this format and wondered if ya'll could recommend other similar trio albums horn, bass, drums.

If you like that one, check out Konitz's "Some New Stuff" (aka Alto Saxophonitz), with Greg Cohen and Joey Baron.

[twoscoops]

A trio I have recently come across from Sweden, on the the new to me but impressive Moserobie label:

Fredriksson, Kullhammar & Zetterberg
GYLDENE TIDER VOL 1,2 and 3

Jonas Kullhammar is a highlight on tenor sax.

Samples on iTunes if anyone is interested.

[Alypius]

My favorite sax trio is a contemporary group based in Paris called The Kandinsky Effect. The eponymous record came out in 2010 and remains one of my favorites (check out track #3: "Girl / Boy Song"). They have a new record coming out in mid January entitled Synesthesia (Cuneiform, 2013). A different kind of sax trio is a new group called The Odd Trio (sax-guitar-drums). Check out their 2012 release Birth of the Minotaur:

[docbop]

Thanks all, I got some of these on order.

Steve B.

[Justin V]

I've never heard Konitz's Motion, but I did have the privilege of catching him in a trio with bassist Jeremy Stratton and drummer George Schuller in August.

On the avant-garde side, there's:



Sam Rivers - Live, with Cecil McBee or Arild Andersen on bass and Barry Altschul on drums, although Rivers does play piano on about 4 minutes of an hour-plus album.



Peter Brotzmann/William Parker/Hamid Drake - Never Too Late, But Always Too Early, with reedist Brotzmann, bassist William Parker and percussionist Hamid Drake.



DKV Trio - Baraka, with reedist Ken Vandermark, bassist Kent Kessler and Hamid Drake.



Jason Stein's Locksmith Isidore - Three Kinds of Happiness, with bass clarinetist Stein, bassist Jason Roebke and drummer Mike Pride.

[spitfirepete]

Try this one....pianoless Quartet. Gerry Mulligan "What is there to Say?" With Art Famer on Trumpet

[Music997]

Originally Posted by HutchFan

Lovano's Sounds of Joy is another good sax trio.

I agree. Joe Lovano has some great stuff that the op will really like.