400 – Life’s A Movie

Life`s a Movie is the third project by versatile veteran pianist Bill Mays` highly imaginative Inventions Trio, and his first recording for Chiaroscuro. Featuring the versatile and impeccable Marvin Stamm on trumpet, and the excellent young classically-trained and vividly swinging cellist, Alisa Horn, the Inventions Trio embodies the essence of synergy and masterful interplay that is so important to successful `chamber` jazz. The album is centered around an imaginary soundtrack – the title suite – that beautifully displays Mays` compositional and conceptual skills. There is also a heartfelt tribute to the immortal Bill Evans with a medley of four Evans` originals; a tour of Spain with the trio`s version of Joaquin Rodrigo`s `Concierto de Aranjuez` (which earned a permanent place in jazz history through Miles`~Sketches of Spain) and Chick Corea`s own classic `Spain,` inspired by the same piece; and a three-piece medley from the utterly unique Thelonious Monk.