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Can't Get Started

by Meg Morley Trio

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D.C.M. 05:13
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Caged 04:53
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Meandering 05:12
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Rush Hour 06:23
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Folk Hymn 05:46
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Meg Morley - piano
Richard Sadler - double bass
Emiliano Caroselli - drums

Recorded: Smokehouse Studios
Mixed: Richard Sadler
Mastered: Denis Blackham
Photo: Monika Jakubowska

A few weeks after Meg Morley's well-received debut solo piano release in March 2017, she formed a trio with British bass player Richard Sadler and Italian drummer Emiliano Caroselli to record an album of her original music in London. A sense of fun, interplay and quirkiness, shared between the three, is apparent throughout this debut album which originates from their individual backgrounds: Morley is a classically-trained pianist/composer, primarily improvising for dance and silent film; the prodigiously self-taught Sadler is proficient in various musical styles, and performs with an impressive range of musicians (Sam Kelly - Cymande; Ray Davies - the Kinks; Neil Cowley Trio; ISQ); and the virtuosic yet sensitive Caroselli is strongly immersed in the 'jazz' tradition also with influences from pop, rock and Cuba (after living and studying in Havana for three years).

Can't Get Started opens with the rhythmically intriguing title track (no connection to the jazz standard) then moves to the reflective DCM. It changes tack again with the almost 'cinematic' Rush Hour (originally written for Morley's solo piano EP but transformed here in the trio setting) then onto the somewhat farcical Polly (Part 1). Morley's classical background clearly reveals itself in the tune Caged, resulting in a contemplative yet dynamic study. Overall the album displays a rich variety of tunes (all composed by Morley) which, combined with the players' exceptional musicianship and sense of interplay, make for an extremely engaging listen.

Aside from Rush Hour, the tunes were intensively written and rehearsed over a period of three months, and recorded over two separate days at Smokehouse Studios in East London. The album was launched at The Vortex Jazz Club on 23 February 2018.

"Sadler and Caroselli give her music an added depth, making this group one of the most exciting on the current UK scene" (Bruce Lindsay, All About Jazz, 24/08/17)

"Can't Get Started represents an impressive debut from the Meg Morley Trio. The musicians are well served by the intelligence, quality and variety of Morley's writing which incorporates a broad variety of jazz styles ranging from simple to the complex"
(Ian Mann, The Jazz Mann, 09/08/17)

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released July 31, 2017

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Australian-born London-based pianist/composer/improviser.

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