David Gordon Trio

The David Gordon Trio was formed in 1995 after a chance meeting in Cambridge between David and the Danish bassist  Ole Rasmussen (student of the legendary Niels Henning Ørsted Pedersen), while they were both completing their postgraduate studies in mathematical logic. Anglo-Italian, US-based drummer Paul Cavaciuti completed the trio and this international line-up of musicians immediately found a common language and musical purpose.

The first album Dozen A Day (ZahZah 9801) revealed the trio’s truly original nature, individual sound and sense of beauty, and was rapturously received in Japan. Three other albums followed before a change of personnel brought Jonty Fisher into the trio. Jonty’s sonorous playing and attractive singing voice brought a new dimension to the trio and the two albums he appears on include a smattering of - sometimes rather unlikely - vocal numbers (the title track of Alexander Scriabin’s Ragtime Band has to be heard to be believed).

After Jonty moved on, jazz-royalty Alec Dankworth, Israeli Yaron Stavi and Italian Rosario Bonaccorso all took turns in the bass chair. The trio now features Oli Hayhurst on bass and drummer Tom Hooper, two of the most thoughtful, versatile, generous-spirited and brilliant musicians on the UK scene. The broad range of skills, virtuosity and exuberance of these players means that although the trio has a long history, it’s now at the peak of its freshness with an unlimited sense of rapport, striving and joy.

The David Gordon Trio has toured extensively in the UK, played in Denmark and Italy, appearing at the London, Laigueglia, Aarhus and Copenhagen Jazz Festivals. They have regular broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 and JazzFM. The trio has also collaborated with a variety of musicians, including saxophonist Andy Sheppard, guitarist John Etheridge, singer Jacqui Dankworth and even Wynton Marsalis.

Their music has been distributed around the world and particularly in Japan where around 10,000 copies of their CDs have sold. While their music exists in a genre of its own, their seven recordings encompass a vast mixture of repertoires, focusing mostly on originals, but also including standards, baroque paraphrases, forays into Celtica and Americana and, in the case of their two more concept-based albums, music from the continent of South America (David Gordon Trio Speaks Latin) and even from a Russian mystical composer/pianist (Alexander Scriabin’s Ragtime Band). This last was Mojo magazine’s 2016 jazz album of the year and garnered critical acclaim from around the world.

デヴィッド·ゴードン·トリオは、イギリス広範囲に渡っての演奏活動を経て、デンマークやイタリアでのツアー及びロンドン、ライゲリア、オーフス、コペンハーゲンなどのジャズ·フェスティバルに出演しました。そしてトリオの演奏はBBC Radio 3 や JazzFM などでも定期的に放送されています。サックス奏者のアンディ·シェパード、ギタリストのジョン·エスリッジ、歌手のジャッキー·ダンクワース、さらにウィントン·マルサリスなど様々なミュージシャンを迎えコラボレーションもしています。彼らのCDは世界中に流通しており、特に日本では売上枚数が約１０,０００ 枚に到達しました。 

トリオ独自の音楽性を追求しつつ、これまでの７枚のアルバムにはスタンダードやバロックのパラフレーズを始め、セルティカやアメリカーナなどを取り入れた様々なスタイルの曲が含まれています。アルバム『デヴィッド·ゴードン·トリオ·スピークス·ラテン』は南米の音楽を基本コンセプトとし、ロシアの神秘的なクラシックの作曲家及びピアニストであるスクリャービンの音楽をコンセプトとした『アレクサンドル·スクリャービンズ·ラグタイム·バンド』は２０１６年にモジョ誌の ‘ジャズ·アルバム·オブ·ザ·イヤー’ を受賞し、世界中の批評家の称賛を得ています。