Gratitude: Stagedoor Live At The Z (Live) Abate, Tim Ray Trio

On his fourth recording with the Tim Ray Trio, Greg Abate and friends search for and find the true essence of jazz. With no formal rehearsals, and subsequently, no overdubs, mulligans, and redos, the band captures its performance in truth, in full, and in the moment. Abate and his cohorts cruise through a slate of mainly originals, along with Joe Henderson's "Inner Urge" and Roland Kirk's "Serenade to a Cuckoo."