Bygone Shows

The fantastic, Boston-based jazz trio MI3 comes to Burl!

The members of mi3 are veterans of the Boston free jazz scene who have
worked together for years, but this band's genesis took place in 2002
under special circumstances when Nate McBride was hosting a series
called “mim” (modern improvised music) at Boston's Abbey Lounge, a
tavern without a piano that was usually home to rock bands. Mi3
became the house trio with Pandelis Karayorgis playing electric piano. The
results of the experience (both in situ and in the studio) were collected on
We Will Make a Home for You (on Clean Feed), a notable release from
2005. The electric incarnation of mi3 might suggest what certain very high
profile piano trios should sound like, combining some of the drive and
riff-driven energy of electrified music with the fluid, complex creativity of
jazz.

"If you asked me to make a long enough wish-list for musical projects, I'm sure I'd wind up asking for a trio with an elite post-jazz keyboardist smearing a Fender Rhodes electric piano over a snap-crackle-pop free jazz rhythm section. You can imagine how great it felt to have any such wish pre-empted by a disc that jumps right into the stratosphere with a leadoff take on Dolphy's "Gazzelloni" that fits the proposable scheme as tight as I could hope for. This disc just destroys me... "
Michael Anton Parker, Downtown Music Gallery (NYC)