{"id":10946,"date":"2019-02-28T17:15:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T01:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=10946"},"modified":"2019-02-28T20:39:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T04:39:46","slug":"recent-listening-the-bill-mays-trio-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2019\/02\/recent-listening-the-bill-mays-trio-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Listening: The Bill Mays Trio Is Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billmays.net\/brand-new-trio-cd\">Bill Mays Trio Live At COTA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Unknown-2-e1551402578139.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10947\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Unknown-2-e1551402578139.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"424\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a>Pianist Mays recently reassembled his trio for a concert and their first CD release in more than ten years. Mays, bassist Martin Wind and drummer Matt Wilson came together in a live performance at last Fall\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s COTA (Celebration Of The Arts) festival. The audience at the Deer Head Inn in Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania, was enthusiastic in welcoming Mays and the trio back to what was his main stomping ground before he began splitting his year between the Pennsylvania mountains and Southern Florida. The listeners were treated to a hand-in-glove relationship among the three that was as strong as ever. Their program began with the Van Heusen\/Mercer standard \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Darn That Dream\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in a medley with Johnny Mercer&#8217;s &#8220;Dream,&#8221; &#8221;\u00a0and went through a repertoire that encompassed pieces by Mays and Bill Evans, and a tribute to Lennie Tristano.&#8221;\u00a0&#8221;\u00a0Deer Head Inn favorite Bob Dorough\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nothing Like You\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is a highlight. Others are an extended, magnetic, version of Jay Livingston\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Never Let Me Go\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and Wind\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s firm, poignant solo on Wayne Shorter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Infant Eyes.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d It is good to hear this finely attuned trio together again.<\/p>\n<p>From their previous incarnation, here are the Mays Trio in his composition with a title that is appropriate at the moment to vast swaths of the United States and many other parts of the world: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Snow Job.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<div align=\"&quot;center\">\n<p>&#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EBsqY5_oKTc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Mays, Wind and Wilson, reunited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Mays Trio Live At COTA Pianist Mays recently reassembled his trio for a concert and their first CD release in more than ten years. Mays, bassist Martin Wind and drummer Matt Wilson came together in a live performance at last Fall\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s COTA (Celebration Of The Arts) festival. The audience at the Deer Head Inn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}