Heart Trio

Heart Trio brings together three long-standing figures of improvised music. William Parker is a New York bassist rooted in the Lower East Side free jazz scene who spent years in Cecil Taylor's groups. Cooper-Moore is a pianist who builds his own instruments, including the diddley-bow and the ashimba. Hamid Drake is a Chicago drummer whose playing draws on frame drums and rhythms from outside the jazz tradition.

In this group the three pass instruments around freely, with Parker on double reeds and stringed instruments from West Africa as well as bass. The music moves between grooves built on repeated figures and open, chant-like passages.