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Liam Noble's review of a newly released trio album by John Taylor, Joey Baron and Marc Johnson.

I sharing it for two reasons - because the music is bound to be lovely (the same trio's Rosslyn is gorgeous), and because Liam, a wonderful pianist, writes so well about the music.

#jazz #piano #JohnTaylor #LiamNoble

https://ukjazznews.com/john-taylor-marc-johnson-joey-baron-tramonto/

John Taylor/Marc Johnson/Joey Baron – ‘Tramonto’ - UK Jazz News

I’ve never been to Rainbow Studios in Oslo, but it’s my impression that when you go in there as a trio you become a quartet. That sound is your fourth member, a collaborator with which one must work tactfully and pragmatically. Rosslyn, the ECM album that John Taylor, Marc Johnson and Joey Baron would go

UK Jazz News - John Taylor/Marc Johnson/Joey Baron – ‘Tramonto’

Andi Chorley Jul 20, 2025

The Madness of Crowds is the second album by Sleepthief, a free improvisation trio led by German jazz saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock with British pianist Liam Noble and American drummer Tom Rainey. It was recorded in 2010 and released by Intakt Records. The song titles as well as the album's title are taken from the book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Scottish writer Charles Mackay.

In a review for The Guardian, John Fordham says "Laubrock's yelping lines over Rainey's battering percussion, her contrasting murmurings over damped piano strings and arrhythmic tappings, windy multiphonic sounds amid cowbell chimes and ghostly chords reveal an increasingly distinctive Sleepthief soundscape." - Wikipedia

https://laubrock-intakt.bandcamp.com/album/the-madness-of-crowds

#IngridLaubrock #LiamNoble #TomRainey #freejazz #Sleepthief #improvisedmusic #CharlesMackay

Andi Chorley Jul 18, 2025

Sleepthief is the eponymous debut album by German jazz saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock's free improvisation trio with British pianist Liam Noble and American drummer Tom Rainey. It was recorded in 2007 and released on the Swiss Intakt label. Laubrock and Noble played together since 2005 and recorded the duo Let's Call This.... While Rainey was visiting the UK they decided to get together and Sleepthief was born.

In a review for The Guardian, John Fordham notes that, "The music is free-jazz, but full of contrasts. Some of it finds the Monkish Noble banging chords while Rainey plays scattered patterns at half his speed, some has Laubrock's gruff, Evan Parkerish trills and whirrs drifting up and down over piano-string twangs and arrhythmic clatters." - Wikipedia

https://laubrock-intakt.bandcamp.com/album/sleepthief

#Sleepthief #IngridLaubrock #LiamNoble #TomRainey #freejazz