Pianist/Composer Luke Gillespie’s fourth recording Moving Mists presents the formidable abilities of Gillespie and his world-class colleagues at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music
Gillespie performs in multiple configurations from solo to septet with Jazz Studies faculty co-members vocalist Tierney Sutton, guitarist Dave Stryker, saxophonists Walter Smith III & Tom Walsh, trumpeters John Raymond & Pat Harbison, trombonists Wayne Wallace & Brennan Johns, bassists Jeremy Allen & Todd Coolman, and drummer Steve Houghton, with arrangements by Brent Wallarab
“Luke Gillespie … [is] a superior pianist who [is] adept at reharmonizing and reinventing standards.”
Scott Yanow, LA Jazz Scene
I Hear A Rhapsody
Blues for All
Giant Steps
Moving Mists
This I Dig of Grew
Round Midnight
Third Base Line
Luke Gillespie Trio
Third Base Line gives credence to the adage that good things come in threes. It is pianist Luke Gillespie’s third release as a leader, in which the leader’s talents are ably matched by bassist Jeremy Allen and drummer Jason Tiemann. The sound of the trio is at once luminous and shadowed, suffused with the suggestion of profundities almost imperceptible: you are in the moment, and yet suddenly the moment is so much more than what it was just a moment ago…
The rewards this CD offers are both immediate and subtle, like a brilliantly-colored flower that slowly unfolds to reveal even more organically-constructed layers of wonder. Or, perhaps, it’s like a baseball game that can be enjoyed for both its upfront dramatics and its intricate strategies. It is both thoroughly modern and thoroughly in the tradition. Rounding third base and heading down the line, it awaits for you, the listener, to bring it safely home.
Live at the Station
Luke Gillespie Trio
This recording documents a live performance by Luke Gillespie, Jeremy Allen, and Jason Tiemann at a short-lived club in Bloomington, Indiana called Jazz At The Station. The tune choices and “arrangements” captured here were spontaneous and unpremeditated; after the performance the group agreed that it had been a particularly fruitful evening and decided to release the recording as a document of a night on which many things seemed to come together well and everyone enjoyed themselves. We hope that you have as much fun listening to the album as the Luke Gillespie Trio had in making it.