Biography
The Clusone Trio (also called Trio Clusone and Clusone 3) was a creative, international band of skilled music artists who combined improvisation, original compositions and old jazz chestnuts right into a music that’s kooky and/or delicate, but always winning. Cellist Ernst Reijseger, alto saxophonist and clarinetist Michael Moore, and drummer Han Bennink emerged together as an intermittent trio by 1980. Afterwards that calendar year, they documented music that might be released in 1981 as you aspect of Taiming on Reijseger’s very own label, Hummeloord. Many years afterwards, Reijseger and Moore became a member of Bennink as associates from the ICP Orchestra. In 1988, Reijseger arranged the Clusone 4 with pianist Guus Janssen to try out Clusone, Italy’s springtime music festival. Following this functionality, the group started getting booked more frequently and Janssen bowed out. The group revisited the quartet line-up only one time, in 1996, if they had been joined up with by trumpeter Dave Douglas for a short tour. The trio’s initial two live recordings — Clusone 3 and I Am an Indian — initial arrived on Moore’s very own Ramboy label, however the last mentioned was eventually found by Gramavision. Their third launch, a tribute to Irving Berlin entitled Soft Lamps and Lovely Music (HatArt, 1993), was a studio room recording, accompanied by the live Like Henry (Gramavision, 1997) and Rara Avis (HatArt, 1999), that was documented in past due 1998, marking their ten yr anniversary and they known as it quits. One of the countries this original group toured are Canada, China, Australia, Norway and Mali.