Bruno Heinen
(piano), Henrik Jensen (double bass) & Antonio Fusco (drums)
(Review by Russell).
Common Spaces opens with
the angular Groovy. A rhythmic pulse surges
through Antonio Fusco’s composition with Bruno Heinen’s robust piano playing
and the composer’s commanding drumming suggesting that this New Simplicity Trio
album is going to be a swinging, hard driving affair. Making assumptions about
what will follow should be resisted for fear of being proved wrong! A further
nine tracks - three from Fusco, four from Heinen, one from bassist Henrik
Jensen and one standard - go on to disprove any such notion.
This BB Records’
release (a subsidiary of the Babel Label) is Antonio Fusco’s project, although
the CD should be seen, and certainly heard, as a trio affair. Heinen’s Full Flat is an exercise in restraint as
the trio resists the temptation to go flat out, Orient Express (comp. A. Fusco)
builds up a head of steam, and Mingus’ Goodbye
Pork Pie Hat is the one other track to tempt the trio into the fast lane.
The trio’s
stated aim is to create a new simplicity; melodic and harmonic simplicity and
the rejection of the complexities of serialism. The title track - Common Spaces - recalls the elegance of
the MJQ and the title of the CD’s penultimate track - Daydreamer - is a fair summation of the New Simplicity Trio’s
mission statement. Common Spaces by the New
Simplicity Trio (Babel
Russell.
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