For those unaware, fresh off their summer tour opening for Steely Dan, Dave Stryker releases the brand new album, Prime - the first recording featuring his working trio.

Along with Jared Gold on organ and McClenty Hunter on drums, Stryker offers eight new compositions and the beautiful standard �I Should Care.� From the burning title track �Prime� to songs penned for his first boss Jack McDuff (�Captain Jack� and �Dude�s Lounge�) as well as �Mac� for his drummer and the original trio versions of �Hope� and �As We Were� from Stryker�s last album As We Are, Prime grooves from start to finish with the precision of a trio that has been road-tested for the last 12 years.

1. Prime
2. Lockdown
3. Captain Jack
4. Hope
5. As We Were
6. Mac
7. I Should Care
8. Deep
9. Dude�s Lounge

This groove-laden, upbeat and vibrant new album opens on the low slung, finger-snapping rhythms within the titular Prime and the alley cat-esque saunter of Lockdown, and then brings us the groove-laden Captain Jack, before the tempo is brought down for the shimmering balladry within Hope.

Up next is another laid back, melodically-hued ballad, the almost reticent As We Were, which is itself backed by the upbeat and vibrant Mac, the album rounding out on the languishing beauty found within I Should Care, some de facto rhythms of Latin hipsway thread their way loving through Deep, closing on the funky grooves explored within the near nine minute, Dude�s Lounge.

Dave Stryker: �In October of 2020 my long-standing trio of organist Jared Gold and drummer McClenty Hunter was booked to play a concert out of town. Due to the pandemic, in lieu of traveling, we were given the opportunity to tape a show that could be streamed by the venue.�

�Inspired by getting the chance to play together again after eight months in lockdown and knowing we would be in the studio, I was motivated to write an album of new music�my first featuring this trio exclusively.� �I decided we would record live in the studio with just one take per song and no overdubbing. The connection, interplay, and fire of the group was captured on that day and we�re happy to now share with you the music of our trio in its Prime.�

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