The Life of a Trio: Saturday is an album reuniting the Jimmy Giuffre 3—pianist Paul Bley, saxophonist Jimmy Giuffre and bassist Steve Swallow—released on the French Owl label in 1990.Jimmy Giuffre catalog, accessed March 22, 2017 The album was released in the US on Sunnyside Records in 2003.Sunnyside Records: album details, accessed December 18, 2019
Reception
AllMusic stated that "time seems to be stripped away, and the microtonal and pointillistic investigations in collective improvisation embarked upon nearly three decades previously are as current as the next breath ... And indeed they are, as there were no rehearsals, no extra or alternate takes, nothing but the music as it happened ... What comes out is an investigation of sound from the inside out, textually, tonally, spatially. Extraordinary". Matthew Miller on All About Jazz stated: "Older, wiser and still stunningly in tune with each other, the threesome take up where they left off and the resulting double-disc of music is every bit as riveting as the original".Miller, M. All About Jazz Review, accessed March 22, 2017
Track listing "Clarinet Zone" (Jimmy Giuffre) – 1:24 "Black Ivory" (Paul Bley, Giuffre) – 4:29 "Owl Eyes" (Bley) – 5:31 "Endless Melody" (Bley, Steve Swallow) – 3:08 "Turns" (Giuffre) – 5:27 "Foreplay" (Bley) – 3:06 "We Agree" (Giuffre, Swallow) – 2:06 "Clusters" (Giuffre) – 7:03 "December" (Swallow) – 1:27 "Someone" (Giuffre) – 2:13 "Even Steven" (Bley) – 3:52 "By the Way:" (Swallow) – 6:14 "Part 1" – 1:19 "Part 2" – 4:50
Personnel Jimmy Giuffre – soprano saxophone, clarinet (tracks 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 10 & 12) Paul Bley – piano (tracks 2–6, 8, 11 & 12) Steve Swallow – electric bass (tracks 4, 5, 7–9, & 12)
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