“riveting set... complex, twisting, percussion-powered episodes are played like a rougher, brawling Brad Mehldau band. Cawley is inspired.... Zanussi's majestic..It's a shot-in-the-dark venture that turned into a world-class trio in a week.”

CD Review in The Guardian ****

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Tom Bancroft (Scotland - drums) (Trio AAB, Dave Milligan Trio, Orchestro Interrupto)

Tom Cawley (London - piano) (Curios, Acoustic Ladyland)

Per Zanussi (Norway - bass) (Zanussi 13,  Arve Henriksen, Paal Nilssen-Love)

Tom Bancroft: Trio Red features 3 innovators from 3 of the most vital jazz scenes in Europe. Between them they have played a key role in some of the most groundbreaking signature groupings in their home scenes over the last 15 years, as well as playing with a wide range of global music greats including Sun Ra, Peter Gabriel, Bugge Wesseltoft, Hamid Drake, Martyn Bennett, Geri Allen, Satoko Fuji.........

Live performances will feature the musical approach presented on the new CD, material like a mash up of Joan Armatrading and Ornette Coleman, a Jeff Buckley cover and some of Tom Bancroft’s original compositions mixed up with very accessible melodic and rhythmic improvised pieces where the focus is on interaction, empathy and compelling collective musical storytelling.

For more information contact Tom Bancroft on tom@interrupto.com or on +44 7974 983701.

“a group that further expands the seemingly endlessly elastic piano trio format in jazz and one that promises to do so with considerable style.......All three players have the ability to switch from the subtlest of touches to rhythmically forceful attack and to change roles from melodic leader to accompanist within a repertoire comprising both thoughtfully composed and spontaneously improvised pieces. It’s a conversation, in essence, and one that very much includes the audience, nowhere more so than in their tantalising take on Jeff Buckley’s Last Goodbye.”

                                                                                                                                            The Herald Live Review

"Simply stunning….in turns challenging and accessible…master musicians…Astounding!" Shetland News  16/2/13