CD Review: Jeff Hamilton Trio - Symbiosis

This is a jazz trio that exhibits a considerable amount of mainstream jazz texture throughout its project. Jeff Hamilton is a formidable craftsman in his ability to make the 'trap set his own' as it were. He edges his sidemen on in something tantamount to a delightfully contrived positive artistic tension and mood resolving in cadential phrases that are essentially studies in gainful improvisation. Jeff's drumming style can be described as an approach to drums that is capricious in manner...

very personal... yet, very eloquent in its delivery. Might I suggest then that Jeff and his jazz trio instruct us in the vagaries of jazz in that the combined group produces an ether of spontaneous musical energy that must be reckoned with. So, please delight in this episodic passage of fine artistic delicacy... Very rich in content... luxuriantly harmonic and melodic... And remarkably animated.