Longtime LPA Board Member, LJC faculty member and Festival favorite, bassist Mario Pavone was recently featured in Downbeat Magazine in an article headlined “Mario Pavone’s Dialect Trio Captivating at Firehouse 12 Show”.

Featured in the magazine, was the Friday May 18 performance which included trio members pianist Matt Mitchell and prodigious drummer Tyshawn Sorey alongside Pavone.

(From DownBeat) “Bassist-composer and Connecticut’s favorite son Mario Pavone brought his dynamic Dialect Trio—featuring outstanding pianist Matt Mitchell and prodigious drummer Tyshawn Sorey—to the intimate and acoustically brilliant Firehouse 12 performance space in New Haven for two compelling sets on Friday, May 18.

The 75-seat venue was packed with longtime Pavone fans, many of whom remembered the bandleader from his longstanding collaboration during the ’80s and ’90s with the late Thomas Chapin, a few even able to recall as far back as his work with Paul Bley in the early ’70s. A stalwart bassist, who is approaching his 78th birthday this November, Pavone anchored this gestalt trio with a big, woody tone and resolute demeanor. His lines were succinct and clear, and his chording behind Mitchell’s piano solos forceful and unshakable, providing an anchor for this uncannily interactive trio, as they performed material from their 2017 Playscape album, Chrome, along with other Pavone originals.”

Read the full article HERE