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Release Date: 24th Feb 2023
Catalogue No: TCB37102
Label: TCB The Montreux Jazz Label
Length: 57 minutes

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Kern: All the things you are (from Very Warm for May)

Work length7:09

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Marton Juhasz, Yves Theiler, Marc Mezgolits

Schwartz, Arthur: You and the Night and the Music

Work length4:54

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Marton Juhasz, Yves Theiler, Marc Mezgolits

Kern: The way you look tonight (from Swing Time)

Work length9:10

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Marton Juhasz, Yves Theiler, Marc Mezgolits

Shearing: Conception

Work length5:32

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Marton Juhasz, Yves Theiler, Marc Mezgolits

Rodgers, R: The Boys from Syracuse: Falling in love with love

Work length6:32

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Marton Juhasz, Yves Theiler, Marc Mezgolits

Steve Kuhn: The Saga of Harrison Crabfeathers

Work length10:21

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Marton Juhasz, Yves Theiler, Marc Mezgolits

Nelson, O: Stolen Moments

Work length6:17

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Marton Juhasz, Yves Theiler, Marc Mezgolits

Heusen: I Thought about You

Work length7:47

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Marton Juhasz, Yves Theiler, Marc Mezgolits

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Reinvention of jazz standards is certainly what the Theiler - Mezgolits - Juhasz Standards Trio is about here. Each member, having mastered their craft, eschews the possibility of "treading water*, with the command to make it new. Indeed, they do.

Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein, Jimmy Van Heusen and Richard Rogers' music from the 1930s sounds as contemporary as any modern jazz composed and performed today. Check out "All the Things You Are" or "You and the Night and the Music," both are presented in the same fashion as the classic Bill Evans trios. Their delivery comes to our ears balanced like an equilateral triangle.

This approach of balance/counterbalance is heard throughout to recording and is proof the trio has absorbed these traditional songs completely and are at liberty to reinvent them. "Stolen Moments" has a hip and halting swing where time signatures are constantly changing. This has the effect of keeping listeners, and I suspect, the trio on the qui vive. Elsewhere, the stripped-down version of "Falling in Love With Love" comes across with a childlike naivety where the trio extracts the essence of the composition. There is a joy captured in these reinvigorated standards that propels them into the next century.

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