Trio 3 & Vijay Iyer - Wiring (2014) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

Three ‘heavy weights’ of American jazz Oliver Lake, Reggie Workmann and Andrew Cyrille make up the band Trio 3. For their 6th album on Intakt Records they have added pianist Vijay Iyer to the line-up. The 43 year old musician is after Irène Schweizer, Geri Allen and Jason Moran the fourth guest piano player cooperating with Trio 3.

In the summer of 2013 Lake, Workman, Cyrille invited Vijay Iyer for a week long residency in New York’s Jazzclub ‘Birdland’, before they recorded the album “Wiring” in Sear Sound Studio.

Amiri Baraka wrote in the liner notes to this recording: „If you want to hear real music not some kind of shallow “entertainment” this is your number, four great musicians trying to change your world. There is nothing superficial or frivolous in this music, it is organic and necessary! Within this actual quartet, a flood of emotional worlds. Each a way of seeing “into things”.

Tracklist:
1. The Prowl (Vijay Iyer) 6:42
2. Synapse II (Reggie Workman) 6:09
3. Willow Song (Reggie Workman) 8:00
4. Shave (Oliver Lake) 7:01
5. Rosmarie (Lake-Workman-Cyrille-Iyer) 6:39
6. I. Slimm Suite for Trayvon (and Thousands More) (Vijay Iyer) 5:13
7. II. Fallacies Suite for Trayvon (and Thousands More) (Vijay Iyer) 7:34
8. III. Adagio Suite for Trayvon (and Thousands More) (Vijay Iyer) 4:15
9. Wiring (Oliver Lake) 4:11
10. Chiara (Curtis Clark) 7:42
11. Tribute to Bu (Andrew Cyrille) 6:29

Personnel:
Olive Lake, alto saxophone
Reggie Workman, bass
Andrew Cyrille, drums
Vijay Iyer, piano

Recorded August 14, 15, 2013, at Sear Sound, NYC, by James Farber
Mixed Sept, 13, 14, 2013, at Sear Sound by James Farber and Trio 3 + Vijay Iyer
Mastered April 2, 2014, at Sony/Battery Mastering by Mark Wilder and James Farber