Robert Kennedy Trio - Big Shoes (2015)

Tracklist

01. Long Strides
02. Pleasant Company Expected
03. Root Bound
04. Radio Blues
05. Upper Market
06. Big Shoes
07. Never Speak Your Name
08. Love and Youth and Spring
09. Lambadame

Big Shoes is Robert Kennedy’s first release as the leader of a jazz trio in the classic organ / guitar / drums format. With Robert's original compositions as vehicles for improvisation and trio interplay, the album features Mason Razavi on guitar and Cody Rhodes on drums as well as Robert on Hammond B-3 organ. The music here is centered in straight-ahead jazz, and ranges from the bossa nova of the opening track “Long Strides” and the ballad / samba of “Never Speak Your Name” to the modern-jazz duo number between Robert and Cody “Lambadame.” Along the way the trio visits bebop numbers “Upper Market” and “Love and Youth and Spring,” slow and soulful “Radio Blues,” the jazz waltz “Pleasant Company Expected,” the New-Orleans flavored title track “Big Shoes,” and the funky “Root Bound.” In the driver's seat at the Hammond organ, Robert is inspired by a deep feeling of musical freedom and responsibility, and the album’s title Big Shoes is his celebration of that feeling.

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