PolyCOM by COM trio
COM trio are excited to present their second album: "PolyCOM".
The trio was born in Seville 2017, the result of the meeting of two of the most active musicians on the jazz scene in Andalusia, Javier Ortí and Nacho Megina, with Trevor Coleman, composer, pianist and trumpetist originally from New Zealand. After two years of intense activity, including numerous performances in Spain and Portugal, they decided to record their first album Comienzo (2019). The trio explores different sound textures in a flexible and experimental way. In this first work they begin to develop some compositions in a particular system of overlapping cycles, which Trevor Coleman calls polycycles. Each instrument plays in a different metric, binary or ternary, and they all coincide at one point so that the theme is constantly being constructed and deconstructed. On their 2nd CD PolyCOM (2023), the trio delves deeper into this concept, inevitably influenced by the work of the celebrated pianist and composer Dave Brubeck (1920-2012), who pioneered the incorporation of irregular metrics in jazz music. Iconic albums such as 'Time Out' (1959) or 'Time Changes' (1963), in addition to enjoying enormous popular success, have become models for the development of complex rhythmic concepts, frequent in contemporary jazz.
COM trio pays homage to Dave Brubeck's famous quartet, extending these rhythmic concepts and contributing the fruit of Trevor Coleman's doctorate research into the polycycle system. New works such as 'PolyBrubeck', 'PolyCOM' or 'PolyMontuno' illustrate this groundbreaking and infectious, popular and evocative, yet sophisticated new music.
Tracklist
| 1. | PolyCOM | 6:25 |
| 2. | Vicisitudes | 5:09 |
| 3. | I'm Here! | 7:17 |
| 4. | PolyBrubeck | 4:32 |
| 5. | Pophorn | 6:50 |
| 6. | PolyMontuno | 3:40 |
| 7. | Pasos | 4:55 |
| 8. | Fibonacci in New Orleans | 4:39 |
| 9. | If you could know it all | 8:04 |
Credits
Trevor Coleman - piano, keybass, trumpet
Javier Ortí - tenor sax
Nacho Megina - drums
Sound Recording, Mixing: Trevor Coleman
Location: Sede de Assejazz, Seville, Spain
Mastering: Roman Beilharz, UVASONAR
Cover painting: Helma van Rijsingen
Photo: Gracia Gata
License
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.
Trevor Coleman, 3 times Emmy Award nominated composer, is now based in Seville, Spain.
As Jazz Keyboardist & Trumpeter he has performed extensively throughout Europe, USA and Australasia.