ACA Digital Archive

Verismo Trio, “Cloud Server” = Trio works by DEASON, KNABLE, SHRUDE, BOZICEVIC, BARABBA, PETERSON & EMERSON – ACA Digital

by Audiophile Audition | Feb 11, 2016 | Classical CD Reviews

Verismo Trio, “Cloud Server” = DAVE DEASON: Trio; SUNNY KNABLE: Glassworks; MARILYN SHRUDE: Notturno: In Memoriam Toru Takemitsu; IVAN BOZICEVIC: Spiritual Mountain; JASON V. BARABBA: Torschlußpanik; RUSSELL PETERSON: Trio No. 1; JASON EMERSON: cloudServer – Verismo Trio (Nicole Riner, flute/Scott Turpen, sax/Theresa Bogard, p.) – ACA Digital CM20113 [Distr. by Albany], 68:41, (12/08/15) ****: 
Very refreshing collection of new trio works and an interesting combination! The appreciable value in this disc is as much in getting to know the talented Verismo Trio as it is in their program of all new and really interesting program choices. I am not aware of another flute, saxophone and piano trio and I certainly did not know there were so many nice pieces out there written for this unusual but beautiful combination. This collection begins in an attention getting way with the very light, breezy and entertaining Trio by Dave Deason. There is a very nice jazzy vibe throughout the three movements that I quite enjoyed. This tone continues with Glassworks by pianist/composer Sunny Knable. The exact title reference to Philip Glass is very intentional; this work having been written for a different trio in Glass’s seventy-fifth birthday year. Each of the five one-minute […]