Fly (jazz band)
Fly is an American jazz band consisting of Mark Turner (saxophones), Larry Grenadier (double bass) and Jeff Ballard (drums).
The musicians formed the piano-less trio after having previously worked together in Chick Corea's band project Originations ; Ballard and Grenadier had played together as teenagers in California. In 2003, Savoy Records produced their debut album Fly , which was released the following year. In January 2008, the trio recorded the second album Sky & Country in New York , which was released by ECM . In 2010 the trio, which sees itself as a “democratic collective”, in which each member contributes pieces to the repertoire and no one acts as a band leader, appeared at Jazz Baltica and the Newport Jazz Festival . The album Year of the Snake followed in 2012 . In terms of style, the trio Allmusic is based on recordings by John Coltrane and Wayne Shorter on the Blue Note label.
Discography
- Fly (Savoy, 2003)
- Sky & Country (ECM, 2008)
- Year Of The Snake (ECM, 2011)
Web links
- Web presence
- Fly at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Review of Jonathan Widran's Fly album on Allmusic . Retrieved May 3, 2012.
- ^ Culture Jazz
- ^ NPR Jazz
- ↑ Year of the Snake at ECM ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Review of the album Sky and Country by Michael G. Nastos on Allmusic (English). Retrieved May 3, 2012.
