TRIO FLUX

Trio Flux and friends at the Blue Monk: Oliver, Gregg, Hutchinson adding to excellence

by Tom D’Antoni on November 7, 2011.

There is something totally seductive about the sound coming out of Neil Mattson’s guitar on a wet Sunday night in early November at the Blue Monk when he, acoustic bassist Julio Appling and drummer Adam Ochshorn, performing as Trio Flux take to the bandstand.

Part Frisell, part Metheny, some Chris Mosley even…but something else. As his hands seemed to hover over the strings, it was obvious why I was not the only one who was drawn into the sound, even though the audience at the Monk was unusually loud. The band grew organically from a long series of weekly jams at Proper Eats. Those jams are over, but the band remains. Read more…

Interview with Noah Peterson on KPSU

by Noah Peterson on January 31, 2011.

Listen to Trio Flux interviewed on KPSU‘s NW Jazz and More!

Interview

Trio Flux – their first, and self-titled album

There’s something you ought to know about Jazz jams. If you’re not a musician, and just attending casually, you are probably not aware of the undercurrent and secondary purpose behind the evening sessions. If you’re a musician, you know they are more than just playing music. They are a chance to meet other jazz artists, both person-to-person, and instrument-to-instrument. Composers can bring new charts, vocalists can display their chops, bands can form. Granted, the music is rough and unpracticed – but you can find the essence of the jazz scene, and a preview of what is to come over the next year.

2010 saw the demise of the Proper Eats Jazz Jam, but in the form of Trio Flux, at least the house band lives on. Trio Flux, brainchild of Neil Mattson along with Julio Appling on bass and Adam Ochshorn on drums continue the original music that was first aired at Proper Eats. Unlike playing music in a jam session, Trio Flux took the opportunity to understand each other, and the music they created. Their self-titled album is the first fruit of those labors. Read more…

Trio Flux – hidden, but worth hearing