Pianist Matthew Bourne is chiefly celebrated for his solo performances, during which he is likely to dazzle and amuse by means of witty interjections into his recitals of everything from film themes to classical snippets Í sudden musical incongruities or the application of extraordinary virtuosity to the ostensibly inconsequential Í but operating in a trio with like minds, bassist Dave Kane and drummer Stephen Davis, he ploughs a slightly straighter furrow.
True, there are passages of sporadic communal humming and odd bursts of musical banter, but for the most part, the trio concentrates on producing a group sound that uncontrivedly incorporates the cluttered, tumbling imaginativeness of a free player such as Howard Riley, the musing dreaminess of more straightahead piano trios in their quieter moments, and the knowing contemporary clatter of, say, the Bad Plus.
Written passages frequently provide the springboard for collective improvisation, but mostly this is music characterised by democratic trio interactiveness, the nervy rumbustiousness of the group's overall sound more important than its individual components.
The trio's debut album, Lost Something, to be released in spring 2008 on Babel, should prove well worth the wait.
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