Trio West

Trio West is a New York City based piano trio.

Producer-composer-arranger-drummer and leader, Tobias Gebb, was born and raised on the west side of Manhattan, thus giving rise to the name Trio West. The band plays regularly at venues around New York City. As accomplished degree-holding musicians, the members of Trio West have performed with a wide variety of internationally known artists both within the jazz genre and beyond.

Tobias Gebb - Drummer

With a bachelors degree in composition from Berklee College of Music and a masters degree from Manhattan School of Music, Tobias can attest to the fact that 7 years of college is enough to send anyone over a cliff. As a teenager growing up on the Westside of Manhattan, his love of jazz was solidified by frequenting the infamous jazz club Augie's (now Smoke), where he had the opportunity to listen and sit in with many great jazz musicians. While completing his masters degree at Manhattan School of Music, he played many "woodshedding" sessions with other students, many of whom have gone on to garner critical acclaim such as Eric Lewis, Stefan Harris, Ryan Kisor, Hans Glawischnig, and Joel Frahm. For the last 12 years Tobias has been freelancing as a drummer here in NYC and has been fortunate enough to work with a wide range of musicians both within the jazz genre and beyond such as Cab Calloway, Buster Williams, Curtis Lundy, Joel Frahm, Duane Burno, Micheal Leonhart, Peter Yellin and many more. In addition, he has appeared on records with pop icons such as Lenny Kravits and Donald Fegan. He won a 1996 Grammy competition with the collaborative group Skizm (with musicians Micheal Leonhart of Steely Dan and Mauro Refosco of David Byrne's group). He learned valuable lessons in production by working with legendary producers such as Phil Ramone and Terry Manning. He has performed on numerous television and radio broadcasts such as ABC, NBC, Much Music, Univision, and The World Cafe with David Dye. Currently, his days are spent teaching drums, bass, piano, guitar, and music theory to private students around New York City, while on any given evening playing freelance gigs and/or subing for veteran drummers around town such as Elliot Zigman (Bill Evans), Rudy Petschauer (Diana Krall, Fathead Newman) and Andy Watson (Jon Hendricks).

Neal Miner - Bassist

Also a fellow Manhattanite, Neal started playing regularly at the formerly mentioned upper west side jazz bar Augie’s at the age of 19. It was there that he was initiated into the New York City jazz scene, backing many young jazz stars such as Larry Goldings, Peter Bernstein, Brad Mehldau, Eric Alexander, Chris Potter, and Roy Hargrove, all of whom have gone on to garner critical acclaim. Over the years Neal has accompanied other jazz legends such as Annie Ross, James Moody, Bob Dorough, Bill Henderson, Frank Wess; new jazz stars like Jane Monheit, Stacey Kent, Ann Hampton Callaway, Dena DeRose, Loston Harris; and fashion celebrity and T.V. personality Isaac Mizrahi. Neal has also held the bass chair in large groups such as the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra, Carnegie Hall Big Band, and the Village Vanguard Jazz Band. He currently works with top jazz vocalists Jane Monheit and Jon Hendricks. [www.nealminer.com]

Tobias Gebb & Trio West: An Upper West Side Story

Read "An Upper West Side Story" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone

by Michael P. Gladstone
June 28, 2008

Showing that its debut album Trio West Plays Holiday Songs (Yummy House, 2007) was no fluke, leader Tobias Gebb begins this album with a direct homage to Ahmad Jamal on his medley of “Poinciana/What Time Is It?" Not only does pianist Eldad Zvulun employ Jamal's idiosyncratic use of spacing but drummer Gebb is all a-chatter with Vernell Fournier-like flourishes, notably at the start and finish of this tune but also throughout the presentation. Zvulun is given another chance to shine ...

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Tobias Gebb & Trio West: An Upper West Side Story

Read "An Upper West Side Story" reviewed by Woodrow Wilkins

by Woodrow Wilkins
June 13, 2008

After a 1997 Christmas recording debut, Trio West is back. This time, An Upper West Side Story features the threesome of Tobias Gebb on drums, Neal Miner on bass and Eldad Zvulun on piano, with a little help from their friends, saxophonist Joel Frahm and vocalist Champian Fulton. Trio West plays extensively on the New York jazz scene. Its members have shared the stage or studio with a wide range of artists, including Cab Calloway, Steely Dan's Donald ...

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Trio West: Trio West Plays Holiday Songs

Read "Trio West Plays Holiday Songs" reviewed by Woodrow Wilkins

by Woodrow Wilkins
December 3, 2007

Every year, music listeners are inundated with “new releases of Christmas music. Invariably, these celebrations include a collection of songs everyone has heard scores of times. So what sets one version of “Silent Night apart from another? The arrangement. Enter Tobias Gebb, drummer, arranger, producer and composer. Gebb, a native of the west side of Manhattan, is the leader of Trio West. His companions are Eldad Zvulun on piano and Neal Miner on bass. Trio West plays ...

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Trio West: Trio West Plays Holiday Songs

Read "Trio West Plays Holiday Songs" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza
November 24, 2007

Christmas is not only a time for goodwill, it is also the time for a slew of recordings that rework the music of the season. The music has been recorded in every conceivable genre and the beat still goes on. And now, Trio West offers their version of eleven tunes.

Eldad Zvulun (piano), Tobias T. Gebb (drums) and Neal Miner (bass) are based in New York. Gebb, their leader, was born in the west side of Manhattan and, ...

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Trio West: Trio West Plays Holiday Songs

Read "Trio West Plays Holiday Songs" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone

by Michael P. Gladstone
November 19, 2007

It isn't every new release that provides nostalgia without even playing it. Trio West's record label, Yummy House, is an exact look-alike of Columbia vinyl releases circa 1960. Without having the actual Columbia logo, this album has the same distinctive red, white and black label with the Columbia “stereo arrow" displayed. I felt like I was back in 1960 watching the platters spin and listening to The Kirby Stone Four or Dave Brubeck Quartet.

Although the group has ...

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Trio West: Trio West Plays Holiday Songs

Read "Trio West Plays Holiday Songs" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
October 27, 2007

Leader Tobias Gebb, born and raised on the west side of Manhattan, pays homage, with his trio, to home and family on this traditional holiday album. Since 1995, Trio West has found reason to carry a straight-ahead jazz message to its New York audience year-round, with a mix of the new and of the old. Recalling the heartfelt and easy-on-the-ears musical good fortune of The Modern Jazz Quartet's John Lewis, Ahmad Jamal and Vince Guaraldi, pianist Eldad Zvulun interprets a ...

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Performance / Tour

Denny Zeitlin Trio West Coast Tour celebrating New MAXJAZZ CD

Source: All About Jazz
December 11, 2004

THE DENNY ZEITLIN TRIO Featuring Buster Williams, bass & Matt Wilson, drums West Coast Tour celebrating their critically acclaimed MAXJAZZ CD “Slickrock" MONDAY, Dec. 13: YOSHI'S JAZZ CLUB & RESTAURANT 510 Embarcadero West Oakland, CA Shows: 8 PM ($14) & 10 PM ($10) Tickets: door or reserve: 510-238-9200 www.yoshis.com TUESDAY thru SUNDAY, Dec. 14-19: JAZZ BAKERY 3233 Helms Boulevard (off Venice) Culver City, CA Shows: 8 and 9:30 ($25 except $30 Fri and Sat.) 1/2 price for students 21 and ...
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Update for The Denny Zeitlin Trio West Coast Tour celebrating New MAXJAZZ CD

Source: All About Jazz
November 24, 2004

THE DENNY ZEITLIN TRIO Featuring Buster Williams, bass & Matt Wilson, drums

West Coast Tour celebrating their critically acclaimed MAXJAZZ CD “Slickrock"

MONDAY, Dec. 13: YOSHI'S JAZZ CLUB & RESTAURANT 510 Embarcadero West Oakland, CA Shows: 8 PM ($14) & 10 PM ($10) Tickets: door or reserve: 510-238-9200 www.yoshis.com

TUESDAY thru SUNDAY, Dec. 14-19: JAZZ BAKERY 3233 Helms Boulevard (off Venice) Culver City, CA ...
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"The trio interprets "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" with a lovely Latin jazz feeling that reaches deep inside like a tango and drives passionately. Its Beautiful". --Jim Santella, All That Jazz

"The music is quite tender, sweet and inspiring enough to make one wish the holiday season never ended. Add this one to the list of holiday albums you plan to play from now on because you will enjoy it!"

"...drummer Tobias Gebb is a man afire, and keeps everything afloat". --Micheal Gladstone, All About Jazz

"...the playing is a treat... make the effort to seek this Trio out if you plan on jazzing up your holidays." --Chris Specter, Midwest Record