“The ensemble playing has the togetherness that only comes from top musicians who know each other well and think as one. Everything is clear and precise yet full of delicacy and feeling.” The Observer
HARKEN! is the new album by Threeway, featuring Steve Waterman on trumpet/flugelhorn, Steve Lodder on piano, Rhodes and Hammond organ and Ben Crosland on electric bass with special guest John Etheridge. Threeway have been engaging audiences for twenty years with their melodic, subtle jazz, all the while developing the intense interplay between the players that so characterises the group’s identity and sound – a chamber jazz trio distinguished by the absence of drums.
HARKEN! celebrates the trio’s 20th anniversary with eleven original compositions written by the trio and John Etheridge as well as an interpretation of Joni Mitchell’s ‘Black Crow’. Four of the tracks make up The Hark Suite by Crosland and the inspiration for the title of the album. “Sedbergh School in Cumbria, where I studied, and where I still enjoy a musical connection, is celebrating its Quincentenary next year, explains Crosland. “HARK is an acronym for the four core values which encompass life at the school: Humility, Ambition, Resilience and Kindness.”
Concert dates
18 May – Church of St Mary, Lastingham, North Yorkshire
19 May – Huddersfield Jazz
9 June – Wylde Green URC, Sutton Coldfield (20th Anniversary Concert)
20 June – Coventry Jazz
22 June – Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
23 June – Harwich Festival
8 July – Buxton International Festival with special guest John Etheridge (album launch)
31 October – Davenham Jazz, Cheshire
1 November – St Lucius Church, Farnley Tyas, Huddersfield
2 November – St Gabriel’s Parish Church, Aldersbrook, London
17 November – Ashburton Arts Centre, Newton Abbott
18 November – North Devon Jazz, Bideford
19 November – St Ives Jazz Club
6 December – Bracknell Jazz
NOTES
HARKEN! is released on Jazz Cat in association with ECN Music.
HARKEN! was recorded at Temple Music Studio, Sutton by Ru Lemer; mixed and mastered by Andrew Tullock at The Blue Studio, London.
Jazz Cat: jazzcat.com
Threeway have recorded three critically acclaimed albums, Conversations (2005), Songs of the Year (2009) and Looking Forward, Looking Back with special guest Jim Hart (2013).
Distribution – Music Connection/Proper: eddie.wilkinson@music-connection.co.uk
