Suddenly it's a glorious flood of top jazz piano trio recordings.
Reader, we spoil you.
You will have maybe by now checked out album of the week Michael Wolff's Memoir, Geoffrey Keezer's remarkable Wayne and Chick homage Live at Birdland and the dazzling tracks available so far from Laurent Coq's upcoming Confidences.
Issued today Hindsight: Live at La Seine Musicale is a 2019 recording that marks 40 years since this particular trio began.
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Recorded at spectacular western Paris venue La Seine Musicale on the Île Seguin in Boulogne-Bilancourt, Italian great pianist Enrico Pieranunzi, 1980s Bass Desires legend Marc Johnson on bass - also on the new 2024 issued Eliane Elias album Time and Again - and drummer Joey Baron, who was in one of Bill Frisell's most fertile periods - and included on 1992 Frisell classic Have a Little Faith when bassist Kermit Driscoll was also in the band - are the players.
'Hindsight' the piece itself was on a recording in a super long version made at Paris club le duc des Lombards called Live in Paris that found Pieranunzi with bassist Hein Van de Geyn and drummer André "Dédé" Ceccarelli issued in 2005 by Challenge.
This new 2019 version is much more succinct and packs just as its predecessor did a powerfully passionate punch. Largely Pieranunzi tunes - what a spirit the man has - plus a version of 1940s song Cole Porter's 'Everything I Love' Johnson hits the ball out of the park time and time again for instance his tone and soloing on 'Molto Ancora'. Jarrett fans will know that the Porter song was interpreted by Bill Evans and featured on Jarrett's debut Life Between the Exit Signs with Charlie Haden and Paul Motian and it was the first thing we turned to after listening to see how the Pieranunzi 3's compares.
It proves just as brilliantly persuasive opening very differently. And if anything is even more positive than the earlier Evans and Jarrett classic treatments. Johnson is completely lit up inside.
Pieranunzi fans will like us be dipping into his back catalogue for earlier versions of tunes like 'Surprise Answer' - for instance check it out on earlier album One Lone Star that featured the EP3 (the bassist on that occasion was Luca Bulgarelli and the drummer Roberto Gatto) plus saxist Rosario Giuliani fattening the whole sonic canopy.
A final word on the sonics given how some live albums suffer from this point of view - not this, and glancing at the credits you know why because the engineer is Stefano Amerio, familiar to ECM fans for his top recordings made for Manfred Eicher mainly in Lugano and on home soil in his own studio Artesuono near Udine. Be good to yourselves dear readers find quality listening time for Hindsight today.
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