Encounter (Trio 3 album)

{{Infobox album

| name = Encounter

| type = studio

| artist = Trio 3

| cover = Encounter_Trio3_cover.jpeg

| alt =

| released = 2000

| recorded = September 19, 1999

| venue =

| studio = Tedesco Studios, Paramus, New Jersey

| genre = Jazz

| length = 58:07

| label = Passin' Thru

| producer =

| chronology = Trio 3

| prev_title = Live in Willisau

| prev_year = 1997

| next_title = Open Ideas

| next_year = 2002

}}

Encounter is an album by Trio 3, a jazz group consisting of saxophonist Oliver Lake, bassist Reggie Workman and drummer Andrew Cyrille. It was recorded in 1999 and released on Lake's own Passin' Thru label.{{cite web |url=https://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/album/trio-3/encounter |title=Trio 3: Encounter |website=Jazz Music Archives |access-date=March 16, 2022}}{{cite web |url=https://www.jazzdisco.org/trio-3/catalog/#passin-thru-41212 |title=Trio 3 Catalog - album index |website=JazzDisco |access-date=March 15, 2022}}

Reception

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{rating|4.5|5}}

|rev2 = Tom Hull – on the Web

|rev2Score = A−{{cite web |last=Hull |first=Tom |url=https://www.tomhull.com/ocston/nm/jazz-60s.html |title=Jazz (1960–70s) |website=Tom Hull – on the Web |accessdate=March 16, 2022}}

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In his review for AllMusic, Alain Drouot states "This recording is one of the best testimonies to Cyrille's art as well as a major statement by three great and inspired musicians at the peak of their powers."{{allMusic|last=Drouot|first=Alain|class=album|id=mw0000002812|title=Trio 3 – Encounter: Review|accessdate=December 20, 2015}}

Gary Giddins wrote: "Oliver Lake, Andrew Cyrille, and Reggie Workman unite with a kind of loft-era thrift, and everything works—the energy level high, the effect sparkling yet controlled, and never a tossed-off moment. Lake's timbre is a saw with inch-long teeth and thoroughly fetching; I'd love to hear him commune with Lee Konitz."{{cite book |last=Giddins |first=Gary |title=Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of its Second Century |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2004 |pages=413 }}

Track listing

  1. "Crooked Blues" (Bobby Bradford) – 6:28
  2. "Leaving East of Java" (Steve Colson) – 13:38
  3. "Encounter" (John Carter) – 6:17
  4. "Reminds Me" (Oliver Lake) – 4:51
  5. "Ode to the Living Tree" (Andrew Cyrille) – 6:32
  6. "Suite Tristan" (Reggie Workman) – 14:17
  7. "Nicodemus" (Andrew Hill) – 6:04

Personnel

References

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Category:2000 albums

Category:Trio 3 (free jazz trio) albums