The Equal Interest Trio is the collaboration between AACM's Joseph Jarman and Leroy Jenkins, and pianist Myra Melford. Drawing not only on their respective pasts in free and avant-garde jazz, but also somewhat upon world, blues, and classical music, the trio has come together for a few small North American tours and festival appearances beginning in the late '90s. These three musicians are highly respected as innovative jazz musicians and improvisers.
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The Equal Interest Trio is the collaboration between AACM's Joseph Jarman and Leroy Jenkins, and pianist Myra Melford. Drawing not only on their respective pasts in free and avant-garde jazz, but also somewhat upon world, blues, and classical music, the trio has come together for a few small North American tours and festival appearances beginning in the late '90s. These three musicians are highly respected as innovative jazz musicians and improvisers. Joseph Jarman is a multi-instrumentalist, saxophonist, and co-founder of the Art Ensemble of Chicago who has performed on over 50 albums, including his own sessions for Delmark and Music & Arts, among others. Violinist (and sometimes cellist) Leroy Jenkins has been a vibrant player in creative music since the 1960s and has a number of albums on several labels, including Black Saint. Myra Melford (who also plays harmonium) is a Woodstock-based artist, active since the 1980s, who has led albums for the Hat and Arabesque labels, among others, has led a number of ensembles, and first recorded with Jenkins on his 1992 release, Themes & Improvisations on the Blues. Jarman, Jenkins, and Melford are first found recording together on the 1997 date co-led by Jenkins and Jarman, Out of the Mist. The trio's first release as the Equal Interest Trio came out in early 2000, entitled simply Equal Interest. They have performed at Seattle's Earshot Jazz Festival in 1999, on BBC Radio in early 2000, and at Canada's Guelph Jazz Festival later the same year.
