Billy Hart, Joris Teepe, Marko Churnchetz - The Brooklyn Sessions (2019)

Brooklyn was gentrifying but still affordable during the ’90s, when another wave of Boomers and post-Boomers — Kurt Rosenwinkel, Mark Turner, Tim Berne, Craig Taborn, Robert Glasper, and Arturo O’Farrill among them — entered the mix. That wave also included bassist Joris Teepe, born in the Netherlands, now 56, who is the fulcrum of this kinetic, sophisticated, endlessly creative trio recital. During those years, Teepe lived in the Windsor Terrace neighborhood, around the corner from Prospect Park, not far from the residence of drummer Billy Hart, 78, originally from Washington, D.C., who both propels and unifies the proceedings from the first note to the last with fresh, shamanistically intuitive ideas.

Some 15 years later, Teepe met the brilliant Slovenian pianist Marko Churnchetz, now 32, who would move to Brooklyn — Bushwick — in 2015 after several lengthy visits. They stayed in touch, and last year, when JazzTribes founder John Weijers asked Teepe to recommend candidates for a follow-up to the ambitious 2018 release ‘In The Spirit of Rashied Ali’, he suggested this multi-generational encounter, which transpired after a rehearsal and a single gig.