Clean Feed Records: CF098 
http://www.cleanfeed-records.com/disco2.asp?intID=229

* Pandelis Karayorgis: piano
* Nate McBride: bass
* Curt Newton: drums
 
http://www.karayorgis.com/mi3.html 
http://www.karayorgis.com/ 
http://www.curtnewton.com/

Reviews
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http://www.karayorgis.com/Pages/CDPages/FreeAdvice.html

by Ed Hazell 
http://www.pointofdeparture.org/PoD17/PoD17MoreMoments4.html

Pianist Pandelis Karayorgis, bassist Nate McBride, and drummer Curt Newton play
an honest, expressive free jazz that’s also playful and intelligent—it feels
closer to the wit and high spirits of hard bop or swing than most free piano
trios. Everything in the music is malleable, tempos are unfixed, ensemble roles
are fluid, and most of what happens from moment to moment is dictated by
whatever the trio is spontaneously developing at the time, not by predetermined
structures. Karayorgis sets “Who Said What When” in motion with fast moving
extended lines, with McBride and Newton capering right beside him. Suddenly he
cuts off linear progress with blocky note clusters and the music disperses in
spattered piano notes and scattered snare accents and widely spaced bass
thrusts. The trio is interactive enough so that these frequent changes in
direction come not just from Karayorgis, but from anyone. Their empathy is
strong enough so that ideas emerge by mutual agreement and develop for as long
as the group maintains interest in them. Then they quickly decide together to
investigate another, usually contrasting, direction. This makes tunes like
“Correspondent,” “Spinach Pie,” and “Fink, Sink Tink” radically unstable, but
the music feels unstrained and even lighthearted. Their approach to jazz
standards like Ellington’s “The Mystery Song” and “Warm Valley” is equally
discursive and free of literal historicisms. In fact, what they’ve taken from
history is not style or genre limitations, but a sense of possibility, a license
to explore – enjoy it as they do it.