The trio do songs from the standard repertoire, playing it in a funky and fresh way; Naima, All Blues, Lament

After having played together in numerous constellations in the past, we finally decided to record a long overdue trio album.
A studio session was scheduled in February 2019 and we spent a day recording the album. With no set repertoire or arrangements, everything was decided on the spot, which gives the recording a unique sense of spontaneity and playfulness.
We picked some of our favorite compositions from the jazz standards catalogue and just went for it.

'Isotope' Geir Åge Johnsen played a funk groove during the miking of the drums and I immediately heard a riff in my head and started to play along. We all dig 'Isotope', let's do it in a funky, riff-based version.
'Lament' Recording this J.J Johnson classic was Johnsen's idea. There are some beautiful melodies and chord changes in this composition. I thought it would be nice to give it a more 'classical' feel, leaning towards the northern jazz sound ideal.
'Naima' This just happened. I started working inside the piano and the guys joined in. We had talked about doing 'Naima', but not in which version. We did a take, listened to it and agreed that this was it, this was our version of Coltrane's 'Naima'.
'Interplay' We wanted to do this iconic Bill Evans composition. Again, a riff came about through some jamming. I wanted to do a dark and hard version, we just went all out on this one.
'Things Aint What They Used To Be' Well, maybe sometimes they are, at least for us when we did the take.
'All Blues' Geir Åge came up with this cool groove over a 6/8-time signature. The guys were laying down a solid groove which offered me the freedom to be all over the place, going back and forth between different time signatures and what not during my solo. It all came together in the end with the melody coming in on top of the groove.
'When All Is Said And Done' This is one of my compositions and playing it with Geir Åge and Fredrik Sahlander was the perfect setting for interpreting and recording it.

Bernt Moen

Track Listing

• Isotope
• Lament
• Naima
• Interplay
• Things Ain´t What They Used To Be
• All Blues
• When All Is said And Done

Additional Details

Label: Losen Records

Genre: Jazz

Language: English

Run Time: 39:46 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 01/17/20

UPC: 7090025832321