Although they have been around for two decades, the British jazz trio THREEWAY – pianist Steve Lodder, ivories driver Ben Crosland and horns player Steve Waterman – never strived to become a household name, because their chamber music is not aimed, by its very nature, at mass audiences. However, one would fail to resist the little ensemble’s gentle grooves – especially on their just-released album which features a special guest, SOFT MACHINE’s guitarist John Etheridge.
“Harken!” is a record that marks the band’s 20th anniversary by offering an inspired take on Joni Mitchell’s “Hejira” classic “Black Crow” alongside eleven originals of which four comprise “The Hark Suite” – composed by Crosland as a tribute to Sedbergh School in Cumbria where he studied, HARK being an acronym for the establishment’s core values: Humility, Ambition, Resilience and Kindness. An interesting work.
with JOHN ETHERIDGE –
Harken!
1. Welshcake
2. Billie’s Blessing
3. AB4BC
4. Humility
5. Ambition
6. Resilience
7. Kindness
8. Lazy Susan
9. Cairnbank
10. Black Crow
11. Lonely Streets
12. Lester Lopes Out
