Gordon Beeferman Organ Trio - Second Being (2023)

Gordon Beeferman’s ORGAN TRIO, with guitarist Anders Nilsson and drummer/percussionist Kate Gentile, riffs on the classic jazz organ trio through a 21st-century lens. Weaving strands from avant-garde jazz and concert music, blues, rock, and more, the result is an eclectic and breathless ride, by turns dramatic, elegiac, groovy, and wry, through unusual forms, moods, and sound-worlds. Each piece is an intricately structured mix of written and free-improvised aesthetics, turning on a dime between precise ensemble passages and freewheeling solos that highlight each musician's unique and virtuosic voice. SECOND BEING, the band’s follow-up album, goes deep into the rabbit hole, with five strikingly different pieces that take ballad, blues, big band, minimalism, and modernism to subversive and entirely unexpected ends.