After releasing her first albums in the 90s with Igloo, Nathalie Loriers is continuing a long-standing collaboration. She presents the third album of her trio with the no less renowned Dutch saxophonist Tineke Postma (Terri Lyne Carrington, Greg Osby) and the excellent Nic Thys (Kris Defoort, Ewout Pierreux, Bill Carrothers).
What was originally intended to be a one-shot deal for the 2016 Gaume Jazz Festival has turned into a truly long-term project. It has to be said that Belgian pianist Nathalie Loriers and saxophonist Tineke Postma quickly found they had a lot in common. Their love of melodies with sinuous harmonies on the one hand, and their lyricism and incandescent bop on the other, soon made this trio (not forgetting the discreet, sober but ever-present double bassist Nicolas Thys) indispensable to the Belgian and even European scene.
In this group's carefully written music, there are also all the things that are left unsaid, all the things that can only be experienced in the present moment and which remain suspended in memory for a long time.
That's why, with these three, you'll never be at the end of your surprises or musical pleasures, because they sing, dance and whisper with delicacy, between lyricism and swing, between strength and tenderness. And that's why Loriers, Postma and Thys are a top-class trio not to be missed.