Jazz trios featuring a horn, bass and drums get right to the core of musical expression. With, most commonly, a saxophone — see Sonny Rollins’ blueprint for the horn and trio setting, the 1957 Contemporary Records album Way Out West — the music flows freely. The players do not need to chase chords around. The result is a stretching of the melodies with freewheeling rhythmic finesse.
Trombone, bass and drums outings are rare, but Michael Dease goes for it on CD 1 of City Life: Music of Gregg Hill , his third outing in which he tips his hat to the composer. Bassist Linda May Han Oh (aka Linda Oh) and drummer Jeff Tain Watts are his rambunctious fellow city dwellers. On CD 2, Dease again employs Oh and Watts, with the addition of pianist Geoffrey Keezer…

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