The Life of a Trio: Saturday

The Life of a Trio: Saturday
Studio album by
Paul Bley, Jimmy Giuffre and Steve Swallow
Released1990 (1990)
RecordedDecember 16, 1989
StudioSound on Sound Studio, NYC
GenreJazz
Length45:59
LabelOwl
OWL059CD
ProducerFrançois Lemaire
Jimmy Giuffre chronology
Liquid Dancers
(1989) 		The Life of a Trio: Saturday
(1990) 		The Life of a Trio: Sunday
(1989)
Paul Bley chronology
Rejoicing
(1989) 		The Life of a Trio: Saturday
(1989) 		The Life of a Trio: Sunday
(1989)

The Life of a Trio: Saturday is an album reuniting the Jimmy Giuffre 3—pianist Paul Bley, saxophonist Jimmy Giuffre and bassist Steve Swallow—released on the French Owl label in 1990.[1] The album was released in the US on Sunnyside Records in 2003.[2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
All About Jazz[4]
AllMusic[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[5]

AllMusic stated that "time seems to be stripped away, and the microtonal and pointillistic investigations in collective improvisation embarked upon nearly three decades previously are as current as the next breath ... And indeed they are, as there were no rehearsals, no extra or alternate takes, nothing but the music as it happened ... What comes out is an investigation of sound from the inside out, textually, tonally, spatially. Extraordinary".[3] Matthew Miller on All About Jazz stated: "Older, wiser and still stunningly in tune with each other, the threesome take up where they left off and the resulting double-disc of music is every bit as riveting as the original".[4]

Track listing

  1. "Clarinet Zone" (Jimmy Giuffre) – 1:24
  2. "Black Ivory" (Paul Bley, Giuffre) – 4:29
  3. "Owl Eyes" (Bley) – 5:31
  4. "Endless Melody" (Bley, Steve Swallow) – 3:08
  5. "Turns" (Giuffre) – 5:27
  6. "Foreplay" (Bley) – 3:06
  7. "We Agree" (Giuffre, Swallow) – 2:06
  8. "Clusters" (Giuffre) – 7:03
  9. "December" (Swallow) – 1:27
  10. "Someone" (Giuffre) – 2:13
  11. "Even Steven" (Bley) – 3:52
  12. "By the Way:" (Swallow) – 6:14
    1. "Part 1" – 1:19
    2. "Part 2" – 4:50

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Jimmy Giuffre catalog, accessed March 22, 2017
  2. ^ Sunnyside Records: album details, accessed December 18, 2019
  3. ^ a b Jurek, Thom. Jimmy Giuffre 3: The Life of a Trio: Saturday – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
  4. ^ a b Miller, M. All About Jazz Review, accessed March 22, 2017
  5. ^ Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 141. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.