CLUSONE TRIO
Genres: Eclectic Fusion, Avant-Garde Jazz • Netherlands

The Clusone Trio (also known as Trio Clusone and Clusone 3) was a creative, international group of skilled musicians who blended improvisation, original compositions and old jazz chestnuts into a music that's kooky and/or delicate, but always winning. Cellist Ernst Reijseger, alto saxophonist and clarinetist Michael Moore, and drummer Han Bennink came together as an occasional trio by 1980. Later that year, they recorded music that would be released in 1981 as one side of Taiming on Reijseger's own label, Hummeloord. Several years later, Reijseger and Moore joined Bennink as members of the ICP Orchestra. In 1988, Reijseger organized the Clusone 4 with pianist Guus Janssen to play Clusone, Italy's spring music festival. After this performance, the group began getting booked more regularly and Janssen bowed out. The group revisited the quartet line-up only once, in 1996, when they were joined by trumpeter Dave Douglas for a brief tour. The read more...