Affinity Trio - Hindsight

... Jacobson's buttery tone speaks and haunts... Like Roy Hargrove and Tom Harrell, Jacobson is a toucher" and not "pusher" of unnecessary technique or pre-planned patterns." - All About Jazz. Individually leading busy and varied artistic lives in Chicago and throughout the Midwest, trumpeter Eric Jacobson, pianist Pamela York and bassist Clay Schaub have gathered weekly for their Monday night residency at Milwaukee's Mason Street Grill since 2021.

There they allow the ideas and inspirations gleaned through the week to take musical form in an intimate and collegial setting, unfurling arrangements on standards from the American Songbook, Latin jazz, bebop, or through their own original music. Their debut recording captures their comfortable simpatico on the jaunty Tin Tin Deo, the luxuriously slow Theme for Ernie, their up-tempo take on The End of a Love Affair, or on the originals, which seamlessly interweave with the classics. "... like Lester Young and Bill Evans