REVIEW: STEVE BERESFORD / PAT THOMAS / VERYAN WESTON - 3 PIANOS

 

STEVE BERESFORD / PAT THOMAS / VERYAN WESTON - 3 PIANOS (Emanem Disc, 2001)

Editing and Mastering by Martin Davidson

Recorded at Gateway Studios, July 23, 2001

Cover by Veryan Weston

Tracks: 1- Acorn, 2-Atlas, 3- Hogarth, 4- Flaxman, 5- Fremantle, 6- Vigilant, 7- Rippleway, 8- Elgar, 9- Western, 10- Bermondsey, 11- Thornton Heath, 12- Speedwell

Amazing trio of pianists and excellent improvisers. The music here is really melodic at times and really dissonant in certain passages (I can listen a lot of diminished chords played here and there and a lot of altered chords too). It is incredible how well this three piano masters interact, doing sounds and progressions that are not common and doing certain harmonization in certain notes here and there. New boundaries are broken by this three musicians who play their instruments with a lot of love and squeeze them in order to get all the sound possibilities from them (even doing percussion on the instrument). There are alot of exotic scales played in the trio improvisations, and the duets are fantastically constructed. I specially love the moments in which the threee play all together!!. Favorite tracks: "Atlas", "Thornton Heath" and "SPEedwell". Contact: www.emanemdisc.com