Trio of Bloom is the first studio meeting between pianist/keyboardist Craig Taborn, guitarist Nels Cline, and drummer Marcus Gilmore. It was facilitated by producer David Breskin, who, in the mid-’80s, brought together guitarist Bill Frisell, bassist Melvin Gibbs, and drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson. All admired one another despite different approaches to jazz. That idea yielded the 1987 one-off Strange Meeting by Power Tools. Breskin has produced Decoding Society dates, several Frisell recordings, and has worked with Cline since 2010.
Set opener “Nightwhistler” was composed by Jackson, and it appropriately begins with an intensely lyrical and poetic drum solo from Gilmore. A minute in, Cline starts delivering…

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