It was first up but not too early. I got in some writing and a family emergency (nothing too serious) and a meetup with some performers and got to the Con early enough to avoid a queue for Torrio! That's the name of the trio of Paul Grabowski, Mirko Guerrino and Niko Schauble. Serious stuff. The most complex piano I've heard with similar free flowing drums. The first tune was soft, introduced with gloriously dissonant, rich, complex chords and indefinite, colour cymbals. Paul's solo was similar, rich and complex, rolling piano lines with sudden truncations, left hand bass of long intervals. Then into a more tonal sax solo, ecstatic runs and emotive tonguing, and chromatic chordal improvisations. The next tune was by Niko, a drummer's tune of odd timing (3-3-3-4-3-3-3-5?) then into Taxi in Rome. I could understand as a Roman visitor for several years yonks back. Latinish starting with unison post-bop styled head. Then a descant recorder and a more laid back tune. Thus it went. Hugely complex and substitutional, coloured, sophisticated piano and expressive, more tonal wind and subtle, response, relatively soft drums. Quite a stunner, really.
Torrio! performed at the Orange Conservatorium. Torrio! comprises Paul Grabowski (piano), Mirko Guerrino (tenor, winds) and Niko Schauble (drums).
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