Product Description The CD features musicians that Seager been playing with regularly for the past two years, Jorge Roeder on bass and Richie Barshay on drums. Impelled by the rhythmic imagination of these two players, who are half his age, the trio music has a new sense of drama, color possibilities and power Review Bert Seager leads a seasoned trio through a collection of highly personalized standards and finely etched originals. Although rhythm-mates Messrs. Barshay and Roeder are short on years they are long on talent and they have had the good fortune to have played with Seager for an extended period. The ensemble spirit that has evolved from that experience shows up well in this recording. Bert s playing, while generally eschewing technical fireworks, is striking in its thoughtfulness and logic and the organic lines seem to naturally grow from the trio s interactive frisson. Unafraid to use space, he achieves tension and interest through sophisticated melodic design and piquant harmonic thinking. For the originals, on the witty Bach s Lunch , as the title suggests, Seager explores various harmonic patterns as used by Bach and other Baroque Masters and although he sticks close to the changes his lines are infused with enough invention as to be a constant delight. Open Book is a pretty Jazz waltz performed here in an empathic duo setting with Roeder. Bleeding Heart is another fine original and notable for the intro that manages to obscure the underlying meter so that when it does become clear to the listener it is a happy surprise. And indeed, the phrase happy surprise is an excellent way to describe my reaction to Beat Greens. Highly recommended. --David Kane Cadence Magazine
