Pianist joins with esteemed players bassist and drummer for their artful 2022 trio album . An exceedingly adept improviser at home with jazz standards as well as his own inventive originals, is best known as a founding member of the boundary-pushing trio , which he left in 2017. Where that group garnered acclaim for their adventurous jazz reworkings of modern rock and pop tunes, 's solo work has been somewhat more nuanced. He has regularly moved between his love of atmospheric, classical-influenced avant-garde jazz (as he did on 2018's with ) and straight-ahead acoustic post-bop (as with 2021's ). With , he explores both with original compositions that also evoke the broad-stroke style of his time with . There's a surprising wryness to the album, best expressed by the opening "The More It Changes." A warm group vocal ballad led by with lyrics by his wife, writer , it has the poignant warmth of friends at a party all gathered around a piano to commune over a beloved song. Other equally intimate instrumental moments follow, including a sparkling rendition of 's "Blue" and 's slow-churning hymn "The Eternal Verities," both of which evoke 's own work for in the '70s and early '80s. More exuberant tracks follow, including two bluesy, hard-swinging -esque numbers in "Merely Improbable" and "At the Bells and Motley." Primarily, is a showcase for 's warm camaraderie with his veteran collaborators. ~ Matt Collar