Lisa Mezzacappa Trio - X Marks The Question (2013)

Queen Bee Records: QB-001
http://www.queenbeerecords.com/
http://www.queenbeerecords.bandcamp.com/album/x-marks-the-question



* Chris Welcome : electric guitar
* Lisa Mezzacappa : acoustic bass
* Mike Pride : drums

http://www.chriswelcome.com/
http://www.lisamezzacappa.com/
http://www.mikepride.com/


Lisa Mezzacappa Trio
http://www.lisamezzacappa.com/projects_trio.html

Over the past four years, the Lisa Mezzacappa Trio, with the superlative
Brooklyn-based musician/composers Chris Welcome and Mike Pride, has grown into
a bicoastal avant-jazz power trio, exploiting the musicians' diverse
compositional aesthetics with a deep exploration of trio chemistry and
interaction. The group nimbly navigates intricate composed material, conceptual
improvisation, spacious jazz feeling and unfettered escapades in
avant-noise. Welcome's gorgeous tone, thoughtful lines and lean original
compositions belie his shredding heavy metal soul; Pride's surprising, dynamic,
extraordinarily creative drumming is matched by his truly original
compositional voice. Mezzacappa provides propulsive lines, arco espressionism
and melodic counterpoint - with inventive original material that revels in the
sound of a rhythm section having a really good time, all by itself.

Reviews

By Paul Acquaro
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2014/03/guitar-week-lisa-mezzacappa-trio-x.html

By Troy Collins
http://www.pointofdeparture.org/PoD45/PoD45MoreMoments5.html

By Glenn Astarita
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/x-marks-the-question-lisa-mezzacappa-queen-bee-records-review-by-glenn-astarita.php

By Cisco Bradley
http://jazzrightnow.com/bands/lisa-mezzacappa-trio/x-marks-the-question-2013/