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The Hold Up

QOW Trio

The Hold Up
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These are musicians working together with the kind of intuition that only comes from an intensive focus on the material and a profound collective self-awareness, allowing each track to come...

The Hold Up

QOW Trio

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These are musicians working together with the kind of intuition that only comes from an intensive focus on the material and a profound collective self-awareness, allowing each track to come...

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QOW TRIO is a unique multi-generational jazz band featuring award-winning young firebrand saxophonist Riley Stone-Lonergan, storied British Jazz legend Spike Wells on drums, and multi-genre bassist and bandleader Eddie Myer. The band arose out of a chance meeting at the Verdict Jazz Club in Brighton and, despite the three musicians' differences in age, it soon became clear that they had much in common - a love of the lineage of big-toned tenor players matched with an appreciation for the wide-open possibilities of the chordless trio, a deep appreciation of the tradition alongside a fearless appetite for exploration, a commitment to the timeless values of melody and swing mixed with a willingness to take risks - all underpinned with a mission to make the music communicate directly to the listener.

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  • Jazzwise
    Editor's Choice
    March 2024
  • BBC Music Magazine
    March 2024
    Jazz Choice

March 2024

These are musicians working together with the kind of intuition that only comes from an intensive focus on the material and a profound collective self-awareness, allowing each track to come alive on its own terms via a superbly detailed recorded sound that leaves an aching sense of an imagined live audience.

March 2024

[The trio] find generation-spanning common cause in straightahead hard bop, their model of Sonny Rollins' chordless trios made current by fluent conviction in jazz's lingua franca…
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