Favorite jazz trio albums

[AtlantaDrumGuy]

Looking for some good trio stuff. Any suggestions? I’m big on Bill Evans already, but would like hear some other good ones.

 

[Drumprof]

Oscar Peterson Trio
Ray Brown Trio
And while we’re in that bag, Jeff Hamilton Trio

Ahmad Jamal Trio
Keith Jarrett Trio
Monty Alexander Trio
Brad Mehldau Trio

Just for starters

 

[Esotericdrums]

I’ve been listening to a lot of Pat Metheny trio lately

 

[Esotericdrums]

Trio Grande- Will Vinson, Gilad Hekselman, Antonio Sanchez. I dig it a lot

Dave Holland- Another Land

Jeff Sipe trio

 

[Drumprof]

Sorry just immediately went to pianist, maybe it was your Bill Evans reference.
Jim Hall
Bill Frisell
Pat Metheny
Sonny Rollins Sax trio Way Out West
Kenny Garrett Triology-fantastic Brian Blade

 

[BlackPearl]

This fairly recent album from Kenny Barron/Dave Holland/Johnathan Blake is spectacular IMHO...

 

[bigbonzo]

New Jazz Trio

New Jazz Trio Discography at Discogs

www.discogs.com

 

[pgm554]

McCoy Tyner Super Trios

 

[What It Is]

Bill Frisell Trio with Tommy Morgan and Rudy Royston. Stellar interplay

 

[audiochurch]

 

[rwm5]

Bill Charlap Trio

 

[pwc1141]

I second anything by Oscar Peterson trios and add Jacques Lousier trio for something very different .... I grew up with Benny Goodman Trio records and those are great too

 

[vintagedrummersweden]

Jan Johansson (Sweden) - "Innertrio" and "8 bitar Johansson".
E.S.T (Seden) - All albums.
Rymden (Sweden, Norway) - "Reflections and Odysseys" and "Space Sailors".
Jan Lundgren (Sweden) - "European Standards", "Swedish Standards" and "Flowers of Sendai".
Lars Jansson (Sweden) - "More Human" and "Green Moss Black Sand" featuring Sigurdur Flosason on sax.

 

[Soulfinger]

Anything by Marcin Wasilewski.
Jakob Bro with Thomas Morgan and Joey Baron.
John Scofield with Steve Swallow and Bill Stewart.
Antonio Sanchez`s album Three Times Three.

GoGo Penguin and Phronesis are fun, too. Craig Taborn, Colin Vallon... too many to mention.

 

[NedPotterDrums]

Brad Mehldau trio as already mentioned by @Drumprof above - especially 2012's Where Do You Start?

Also Elastic by Joshua Redman is sax, organ, drums - has jazz crimes on, bit of a classic. I love love love Brian Blade's playing on that album so much. It's at the funkier end of the jazz spectrum.

For something more meditative I'd recommend As It Is by the Peter Erskine Trio in ECM.

 

[jakeo]

Cedar Walton Trio - Billy Higgins on a lot of them.

 

[JohnnyVibesAZ]

I love everything George Shearing recorded.

 

[SwivoNut]

Oscar Peterson Trio - West Side Story

 

[kdgrissom]

I would add the Vince Guaraldi Trio. Probably one of the first jazz trios I never knew I heard as a kid.
His stuff with Bolo Sete (guitar) is very good.

 

[JohnnyVibesAZ]

Here's another one of my favorites.