The chemistry joining pianist Ivo Neame – with his Django Batesian rhythm-swaps hitched to classic jazz roots in Bill Evans and Chick Corea – to Jasper Hoiby’s double-bass muscle and the maniacally ...

Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through our links on this page. It’s always a relief to catch a piano trio that plays with rock-like aggression, bringing jazz away from ...

Phronesis is a jazz band with a difference. On paper, it appears traditional, but this straight-up jazz trio of piano, bass and drums is cutting a swathe through the British jazz scene. "Mine is a ...

Parallax (noun) "the apparent displacement of an observed object due to a change in the position of the observer." This phenomenon is exactly how the listener new to Phronesis' oeuvre would perceive ...

As the pile of talented and exciting piano trios continues to grow ever higher, it takes a very talented and exciting threesome to rise to the top and stay there. Enter Phronesis. Up on the peak with ...

Popularity is not a condition that afflicts many young jazz musicians. Even for the best, writing, rehearsing and performing challenging creative music – and getting it heard above the din of the ...

We're featuring the new album 'We Are All' from European trio Phronesis this week. It seeks to focus our attention on the importance of harmonious coexistence with each other and our planet through ...

Despite Allen Toussaint’s star billing at Brecon on Saturday, those tuned in to the festival buzz would have heard another name permeating the early evening chatter: Phronesis, the Anglo-Swedish trio ...

James Lachno talks to double-bassist Jasper Høiby about jazz trio Phronesis's 'performance in the dark, which will premiere at the 2011 Brecon Jazz Festival. Phronesis - Jasper Høiby, Ivo Neame and ...

Phronesis, as the Oxford Companion to Philosophy tells us, is a Greek word for “practical wisdom”, with overtones of sound judgment and what Buddhists might call “right livelihood”. It’s also the name ...

PHRONESIS are one of those bands that you think of as young but which, in fact, have been around forever. Well, 10 years, which is a very long time by the standards of most jazz ensembles, which tend ...