For those unaware, the third album from Joe Lovano’s Trio Tapestry finds the group continuing to extend its spacious and lyrical approach, with deep listening and intense focus. “Our Daily Bread is fueled by the rhythm spirit of expression that projects the mysterious world of music that lies ahead,” says master saxophonist Lovano in his liner note and these elegantly fluid pieces and free-floating ballads indeed feel like songs of the soul.

“The intensity comes not from ferocity but from depth of feeling,” wrote the BBC Music Magazine of the group’s debut. “Lovano’s themes and harmonies provide rich potential which the trio realises beautifully, exploring texture and mood as fruitfully as it develops melody and harmony.”

Marilyn Crispell is the optimal pianist for this music, orchestrating it as it unfolds with a sensibility attuned to both contemporary chamber music and post-Coltrane improvising. Drummer Carmen Castaldi, a Lovano associate since teenage years, embellishes the music with his own poetic touch on cymbals and, like Joe himself, draws blossoming resonances from gongs.

Midway through the programme, Lovano delivers the bluesy “One for Charlie” as a solo tenor tribute to Charlie Haden, investing every note with meaning, as the tune’s dedicatee once did.

1. All Twelve
2. Grace Notes
3. Le Petit Opportun
4. Our Daily Bread
5. One for Charlie
6. The Power of Three
7. Rhythm Spirit
8. Crystal Ball

Our Daily Bread, which was recorded at Lugano’s Auditorio Stelio Molo in May 2022 and produced by Manfred Eicher, opens on the quietly impassioned All Twelve and the veritably glistening Grace Notes, the slightly stern fare of Le Petit Opportun is next, and then comes the sweeping affair within the titular Our Daily Bread.

Next up is the lead tenor saxophone-veined One for Charlie and the late night, smoky jazz bar-imbued The Power of Three, the recording rounding out on the wistful Rhythm Spirit, closing on the hopeful, expectant, and ultimately flourishing Crystal Ball.

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