Bert Seager Trio at Lilypad

It will be a deep joy to play a set of trio music with my dear friends Richie Barshay and Max Ridley. Richie and Max are two of the most playful and musical people I know. They are curious and creative about all aspects of life and have gone deep into the music with the same open hearted orientation that they bring to all of their lives.

They are phenomenal musicians. I just need to say that. And they listen with a relaxed, affectionate awareness that allows them to respond to my playing with what seems like supernatural powers. I have made a couple recordings with them both. They are not on the same discs - here is the thing - they have never met. ...

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It will be a deep joy to play a set of trio music with my dear friends Richie Barshay and Max Ridley. Richie and Max are two of the most playful and musical people I know. They are curious and creative about all aspects of life and have gone deep into the music with the same open hearted orientation that they bring to all of their lives.

They are phenomenal musicians. I just need to say that. And they listen with a relaxed, affectionate awareness that allows them to respond to my playing with what seems like supernatural powers. I have made a couple recordings with them both. They are not on the same discs - here is the thing - they have never met.

And so I want you to be there to witness how jazz musicians like them can discover each other with ease and warmth and energy, and daring. Bass and drums and piano. No horn this night. I will have the unobstructed territory to set up, paint and build the structures we play together.

And I think it is worth mentioning that we will play unrehearsed, only meeting in the space of the new sounds we are creating together. We will use as our forms tunes we know, even without naming them, so there is no holding back.

Hope to see you at the Lilypad.

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