What’s in a Name? [Pure DSD]

This Pure DSD 256 - Direct Mixed album was recorded, mixed, mastered and delivered purely in DSD 256. It is available now only at NativeDSD.

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'What's in a Name?' marks the 25th anniversary of one of Jazz's more understated trios. Angelo Verploegen, Ed Verhoeff and Eric van der Westen have been playing together, drumless, since their first week-long residency at Amsterdam's Pompoen club in August 2001. For their third album on Just Listen Records, the group builds a clear theme, selecting 12 Jazz standards with names for titles: Sam Rivers' Beatrice, Ellington's Angelica, Coltrane's Naima, McCoy Tyner's Aisha, Wayne Shorter's Ana Maria, and the oldest piece here, 1925's Dinah, among others. An ode, as the trio puts it, to a hundred years of Jazz and twenty-five years of their own partnership. Three tracks (Emily, Dinah, Alfie) are stripped down further still, to duets between rotating pairs. Recorded live in one room at Banana Bread Studios with no technical artifice, the album leans fully into what's defined the trio from the start: three instruments, no drums, and the open space that absence creates. Verploegen plays a Hub van Laar Flugelhorn.

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Angelo Verploegen, Flugelhorn Ed Verhoeff, Electric Guitar & Acoustic Guitar Eric van der Westen, Double Bass