Marcin Wasilewski Trio: Faithful – review

(ECM)Long-running lineups are a rarity in jazz, but pianist Marcin Wasilewski's Polish trio have played together since they were students in the early 1990s, and their ability to catch and amplify each other's thoughts reflects this. Like their earlier ECM albums Trio and January, Faithful is predominantly pensive, but the trio are vivacious even while dreamwalking. The album displays the group's trademark urge to raid a variety of songbooks, splicing pieces by Hanns Eisler, Ornette Coleman, Pa...

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