Washington based Jazz/RIO act Luke Stewart’s Silt Trio published the official audio for the track “Roots” taken from upcoming album “The Bottom” out on January 22, 2022 via Cuneiform Records. Stream the track through the YouTube player below:
Called “one of the 25 most influential jazz artists of his generation” by DownBeat Magazine and a member of several earth-shaking ensembles, including Irreversible Entanglements and Heroes Are Gang Leaders, polymathic bassist Luke Stewart, a creative catalyst on the Washington D.C. (and beyond) music scene for almost two decades, introduces his protean trio with Chicago drum legend Chad Taylor and powerhouse DC saxophonist Brian Settles.
A casual observer of the Washington D.C. music scene could easily get the mistaken impression that there are four or five guys coincidentally named Luke Stewart playing leading roles in a disparate array of musical communities. In fact, Stewart is a singular, uncontainable artist whose work as a bassist, saxophonist, producer, broadcaster, and all-around mover and shaker has deepened and extended the District’s legacy as a hotbed for creative music.
Given his many pursuits, a single album can only capture a small portion of Stewart’s oceanic sonic continuum, but “The Bottom” offers a deep dive into a particularly inviting pool with his loose and limber trio making their debut here.
A highly cohesive triumvirate in close communion, the band plays with the conversational ease of longtime, comfortable friends. Untethered to any particular stylistic convention, particularly bebop’s head-solo-head format, the music’s ebb and flow feels utterly in the moment.
“I approached the recording session as closely as possible to playing a set, arranging the sequence with that in mind,” says Stewart, who was born and raised in Mississippi. “Like a set compositions are coupled by moments of free improvisation, but that free improv is contextualized by what happened before and after. It’s a journey, and the recording session reflects that.”
Purchase the album on Bandcamp: https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-bottom
Tracklist:
1. Reminiscince 06:10
2. Roots 05:07
3. Angles 11:42
4. The Bottom 05:31
5. Circles 03:07
6. Dream House 08:57
Lineup:
Luke Sewart / Bass
Brian Settles / Tenor Sax
Chad Taylor / Drums, Mbira
