Acoustic Triangle - Grand Designs
Thursday, May 29, 2008
A rave in the nave could hardly be further from the idea behind Acoustic Triangle, that most cerebral of chamber jazz trios comprised of bassist Malcolm Creese, pianist Gwilym Simcock and saxophonist Tim Garland. Touring in sacred spaces, often the largest cathedrals and churches in the land, surprising audiences with sound coming from different angles around the historic spaces, has introduced an element often taken for granted in jazz performance: the nature and impact of space and environment. Acoustic Triangle talks to Stuart Nicholson about the sacred and the secular, working with a string quartet, the evolution of the group and how, above all, size matters, as the trio sets off for another extensive tour.
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