Artist: Hyperbole Trio
Title: Hyperbole Trio
Cat Number: SLAMCD226
Year released: 1997
Format: CD & all digital platforms
Barcode: 5028386022626
Freewheeling jazz trio of saxophone, bass and drums, recorded at The Premises, London, 17-18th February 1997.
Clive York: soprano and tenor saxophones
Julia Doyle: double bass
Dave Fowler: drums
“York, Doyle and Fowler are hardly household names but this album should win them plenty of fans. Improvisation is an open-ended piece that lives up to its name. The remainder are compositions by the three band members and they take the form of thematic inspiration for the solo excursions that follow. Some are built around pleasant riffs, Nutshell is especially jaunty, Yehoudi Gnu and Gentle Slopes are full of inviting charm and Morning Lover has its own particular strength. All elicit free solo development and, in York, the group has a lyrical horn to shoulder much of the responsibility. His quizzical tenor on Dark Blues is matched by his logical development of Five Six Seven, Nutshell, Three form and Morning Lover show that he is equally at home on soprano and that he knows how to ‘move out’ in all of his solo realisations. Doyle has a fine attacking solo on Gentle Slopes and has a good tone in her arco reading of Morning Lover. Fowler is subtle in support but his musical drum interludes on Three Form show him as very much a soloist in his own right. With the exaggeration implicit in a name like the Hyperbole Trio, one might have expected a ‘one man band’. Happily, all three musicians are equally involved and, after all, they do play as one.” – Barry McRae, Jazz Journal