DIALOGUES TRIO

London-based pianist Bruno Heinen formed his Dialogues Trio with bassist Andrea Di Biase and drummer Jon Scott in 2005, yet it has taken until now for them to release an album. The long gestation period has paid off with some cohesive, mature ensemble playing and a refreshingly simple concept at the album’s heart – a set of pieces based on the theme of ‘Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star’. The nursery rhyme is sliced and diced into fragments, deftly interwoven by the Guildhall alumnus into a suite of compositions which take in a broad vista of styles and some unexpected lurches of direction. ‘Waltz for Rossie’ is a contemporary take on the urbane, conversational approach of the Bill Evans trio, contrasted on ‘Spins Wins’ with a jagged stop-start theme giving way to uninhibited free-bop. ‘Venus’ begins with an EST-like hook which soon dissolves into a rubato reverie, while ‘Jumping Rocks’ is based around read more...