Trio, by Jonathan Hughes

Trio

by Jonathan Hughes

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1.	Floating Past Altair 06:49	buy track
2.	Palomar 05:27	buy track
3.	Flora 05:18	buy track
4.	The Seven Sisters 04:26	buy track
5.	Lyra 04:29	buy track
6.	Electra 05:25	buy track
7.	Vela 04:29	buy track
8.	Andromeda 05:13	buy track
9.	The Swan 04:02	buy track
10.	Polaris 04:43	buy track

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As its title suggests, Trio reduces the sonic palette to a group’s smallest unit: bass (Jonathan Hughes), piano (Harry Graser), and drums (Joe Goretti). In the absence of a monophonic solo instrument, Jonathan Hughes delivers compositions driven by curiosity. Statements and declarations, which leave little room for the imagination of the listener, are eschewed for melodies that explore space, ponder questions, and honor the beauty in phrasing, in timing, and in tone — the elements that make music. This reserved approach lends a spirit of generosity to Trio, one that invites the listener to fill in the spaces with their own context, their own course. From our sense of anticipation, we conjure a narrative; we dream of a destination; we invoke our own resourcefulness. Patience is rewarded with carefully curated moments of surprise: a momentary key shift that almost sounds conversational, an unexpected rhythmic development, a glockenspiel, a human voice. That, as a player, the composer Hughes’s instrument of choice is the bass guitar, one whose voice occupies a frequency range generally below the din of everyday life, tells us all we need to know about the careful, almost fragile, conditions necessary to fully appreciate these pieces. There’s a quiet magnitude in the spareness of Trio, the way a macro lens can reveal an unexpected and poetic vastness in the small and the overlooked.

credits

released July 12, 2023

Joe Goretti: Drums
Harry Graser: Piano
Jonathan Hughes: Electric Bass, Acoustic Guitar, Hand Claps
Dee Adams: Vocals on "Polaris"
Laura Wootton: Vocals and Handclaps on "Polaris"

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Jonathan Hughes Buffalo, New York

Jonathan Hughes is a bassist and composer from Buffalo, NY.

jonathanhughes.com

discography

Aqua

Feb 2024
Trio

Jul 2023
Aura

Apr 2022
Lumi

Dec 2021
Current

Jun 2021
Viridescent

Nov 2020
Evenfall

Sep 2019
Apollo Eleven Songs

Jul 2019
Luna

May 2018

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