Marcin Wasilewski Trio | Jazz review

LSO St Luke's, LondonIn this renaissance period for the unplugged jazz piano trio, several names still come to mind – the Bad Plus, Brad Mehldau, the late Esbjörn Svensson – before that of Poland's Marcin Wasilewski. But the stock of Wasilewski's threesome steadily rose through the noughties, and a recent American tour, an acclaimed album and a trip round the UK are signs of the group's decisive emergence from jazz's backwaters.Wasilewski's appeal is more elusive than that of the trios jus...

Read full article Share article