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Pram Trio

Pram Trio began with the discovery of an abandoned vintage perambulator on the streets of Toronto. Shortly after, these three musicians played their first show together and the rest is history. The group combines elements of the traditional jazz piano trio with contemporary styles of music both within and beyond the jazz genre. With a strong focus on collective improvisation, the trio shares the goal of creating the best music possible in the present moment. Pram Trio has enjoyed two Canadian tours, and will be releasing their debut album September 3rd, 2013.

Jack Bodkin - Piano
Mark Godfrey - Bass
Richard Piasetski - Drums

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Pram Trio: Saga Thirteen

Read "Saga Thirteen" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


To the casual observer, a perambulator--pram, for short--is simply what it appears to be: a baby carriage. But to the pram's inhabitant(s), it's something else entirely. To those wee babies, the carriage is, in fact, a world in motion and a home away from home that serves as a vehicle for travel to new realms. They see prams through a different set of eyes, and that's how the three gentleman in this band must also see them. This music bears ...

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Pram Trio: Visitor Parking

Read "Visitor Parking" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


An abandoned vintage perambulator--a pram--discovered on the streets of Toronto inspired the Canadian threesome to take as a name for their group the Pram Trio. Pictured on the cover of their debut album, Visitor Parking, the pram seems to have seen better days. It suffers rust and corrosion. If it ever possessed a sun shade, it is long gone. But the group that took its name from the antiquated pram is anything but old fashioned. There sound, on the opener, ...

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"Songs often develop into territories unlike from whence they began, eliciting a sense of drama from the relative peacefulness of the piano trio environment."

- Dave Sumner, eMusic

"[The trio] has clearly put in a lot of time getting inside its compositions, which tend to be very contemporary, composed and multi-sectional."

- Peter Hum, Ottawa Jazz Blog

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