Gerry Hemingway

Circles is the second album pianist Marilyn Crispell recorded for the label Disques Victo.

"Less is More" brings this decade lengthed collective trio into its finest document to date shining with its uncanny ability to interact with extraordinary subtlety and delicacy yet scrupulously controlled power. As the trio has developed it's sound and conception, a compelling evolution has developed from the diverse compositional sensibilities of all three members.

What a super team. A bassist associated with the best New York improvisers - Mark Helias; a drummer who has continued his meteoric rise since his stint as a member of Braxton's well-known Nineties quartet - Gerry Hemingway; and a trombonist known for his intensity and his motto, which says it all: “if I ever had a home, it was the slide trombone”- Ray Anderson.

After thirty-four years, a good idea – another reconvening of three of the most intriguing and inspiring musicians of the creative jazz scene, namely Mark Helias, Gerry Hemingway and Ray Anderson – who have continuously developed into one of the best units in the planet devoted to imaginative combinations between the composed and the improvised.

The duo Telectu, formed in 1981 by Jorge Lima Barreto and Vítor Rua, committed to improvisation, to polynstrumentism and to electroacustic, has approached several tendencies of post-modern music and has acted in diversified contexts – concerts, studio recordings and multimedia performances, inter-art collaborations for theatre, performance and video -, performing with some of the most important co