"OWL Trio is ear candy with depth and substance.These guys are creative restless explorers" Full Review - STEREOPHILE MAGAZINE
"Everything about this album,which should contend for debut of the year honors,is a resounding success.The music swings effortlessly,every utterence is gorgeous and the recording is intimate and beautiful" Full Review - DOWNBEAT
"these guys rarely need more than one or two shots to make something magical happen.The chemistry, sensitivity and simpatico sensibilities exhibited by these three young men are evident at every turn....OWL Trio is one of those records that finds power in quiet expression, not raised volume or aggression. Lund, Vinson and le Fleming make for an absorbing combination" Full Review - ALL ABOUT JAZZ
" There’s a natural synergy, a comfortable ease, that guides them....Vinson’s delicate, sinuous alto runs and Lage’s twinkling chords sync and separate, all tranquil and cozy; le Fleming’s bass unassumingly moors them together" Full Review JAZZTIMES
"Coltrane's Dear Lord drives Vinson's Lee Konitz-like sax subtlety toward an assertive edge, and a gorgeous From This Moment On shifts almost indolently between tempos" Full Review - GUARDIAN
"The OWL Trio plays with an easy grace.... letting notes hang like whispers as they stroll through this tasty 11-song set.The camaraderie shines through as they take an eclectic set and make it beautifully cohesive" Full Review - DOWNBEAT (Editors Picks)
Owl trio
The OWL Trio is a chamber jazz ensemble, borne of the 20 - year musical relationship between bassist Orlando le Fleming, saxophonist Will Vinson and guitarist Lage Lund. The intimate nature of the lineup, combined with the years of prolific collaborative music‐making in a wide variety of contexts, results in highly sensitive and near‐telepathic renderings of standards and free improvisations.
Each of the musicians is highly accomplished and recognized in his own right. Jazz Times calls le Fleming “a deep‐toned walker with an impeccable sense of time”, and the New York Times describes him as a “grounding force”. Vinson is “marvelous” and “drills a hole through the music, boxing like a sprightly Olympic welterweight” according to Jazz Times, and the Guardian describes him as “spectacular, adroit and sophisticated”. The New York Times lauds Lund’s “casual magnetism”, and the critic David Adler describes him as “burning down the house with one impossibly deft solo after another.
The group’s first performance at the Rochester Jazz Festival was a hit according to the Rochester City Newspaper: “Lund’s gorgeous playing, Vinson’s sinuous sound, and le Fleming’s sturdy anchoring made for a dream‐like sound in a perfect setting.”
OWL Trio recorded its first, eponymous, CD in an abandoned church in Brooklyn. The recording is characterized by its seamless juxtaposition of haunting beauty, space and freedom, with the overt celebration of the jazz tradition and that of the American songbook.