BEATrio (2025)

"With original music collaboratively-composed and tested out in the spontaneity of moments during a run at the Blue Note Jazz Club in Greenwich Village, New York City, in September of 2024, Béla Fleck, Edmar Castaneda and Antonio Sanchez then captured their unity in the recording studio. That they succeeded with such panache on cuts like "Archipelago," is a testament not only to their individual technical skills but the combination of humility and daring that inspired them to take chances in the short term and long term. Secure in the close-knit relationship they have formed during the performances, the threesome fine-tuned an uncanny shared method of injecting tunes such as "Hooligan Harbor" with as much rhythm as melody. If not for its fairly conventional structure as a bluegrass reel of sorts, the name of this final track by BEATrio may be somewhat cryptic, but it is nevertheless an accurate summary of all that unfolds during this consummate collective effort." (AllAboutJazz; 4,5 uit 5 sterren)