Luke Stewart Silt Trio

Unknown Rivers is bassist Luke Stewart’s debut for Pi Recordings. An omnipresent and galvanizing force on the music scene, Stewart is a leader or co-leader of such bands as Irreversible  Entanglements along with his Exposure Quintet, Blacks’ Myths, Heart of the Ghost, and Remembrance Quintet.

Stewart’s new release features his long-running Silt Trio, with Brian Settles on tenor sax, and  drummers Warren “Trae” Crudup III on four studio tracks and Chad Taylor on three live ones. It was Stewart’s intention to feature both versions for the trio on the album to highlight the distinct  approaches that the two drummers bring to the music. Stewart is the master of a deep, wide groove that cushions and propels, making every musical situation he finds himself in sound good. Even as a titular leader, his playing is always at service to the group. His is a deeply intuitive sound, hard-earned from playing with the music’s elders and his peers on thousands of live performances – he estimates that he plays over 200 gigs a year – rather than from an academic setting.