{"id":421,"date":"2016-10-07T20:17:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T20:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jameswestfall.com\/?p=421"},"modified":"2025-06-16T19:40:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T19:40:23","slug":"wwoz-new-music-spotlight-the-wee-trio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jameswestfall.com\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":"WWOZ &#8211; New Music Spotlight: The Wee Trio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New music spotlight: The Wee Trio<br \/>\nAuthored by: Carrie Booher<br \/>\nPublished on: October 4th, 2016<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-423 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/jameswestfall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/vibes.jpg\" alt=\"vibes\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>The Wee Trio formed in Brooklyn in 2008 but sounds of New Orleans are sprinkled throughout their latest, Wee + 3. The Trio tells stories of impressive depth through jazz; it is the most narrative an album could get without having words. New Orleanian James Westfall&#8217;s vibraphone jumps out on many songs, particularly &#8216;Titan Up,&#8217; a tribute to his new Nashville home and their football team.<\/p>\n<p>Local trumpeter Nicholas Payton joins the trio on &#8216;Sabotage&#8217; and the seemingly Mardi Gras inspired &#8216;Belle Femme De Voodoo,&#8217; as well as &#8216;No Justice,&#8217; a song that runs the gamut from beautiful to downtrodden to hopeful. Other guest appearances on Wee + 3 include Fabian Almazan and Nir Felder. The final track, &#8216;Apparition,&#8217; is a hauntingly beautiful song; immediately bringing to mind some kind of &#8220;other&#8221; world. Check out &#8216;Climb&#8217; from the album below.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As The Wee Trio, we challenge ourselves to never play a song the same way twice,&#8221; the group says. &#8220;In every live performance we stretch to find something new in that moment, and this act of reaching is a riveting experience for us as well as our listeners.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Wee Trio have been met with critical acclaim in recent years. Downbeat stated &#8220;The Wee Trio often veers from the expected\u2026questioning the rules of jazz orthodoxy. They keep the music substantive and riddled with direction surprises. Definitely a group to watch.&#8221;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-425 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/jameswestfall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/wee3.png\" alt=\"wee3\" width=\"200\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The San Francisco Chronicle said &#8220;With James Westfall\u2019s vibes in the forefront, the group has a fresh sound, and bassist Dan Loomis and drummer<br \/>\nJared Schonig flow like the tides. Wee\u2019s sound is not wee, it\u2019s huge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wee + 3 is available now on mp3 from <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/wee-+-3\/id1153124846\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/Wee-3-Trio\/dp\/B01LX7XTC9\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1475587163&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=wee+%2B+3\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can catch them live in New Orleans at Snug Harbor on November 19.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Wee Trio w\/ Fabian Almaz\u00e1n - &#039;Climb&#039;\" width=\"559\" height=\"314\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BLD3zHvroFc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New music spotlight: The Wee Trio Authored by: Carrie Booher Published on: October 4th, 2016 The Wee Trio formed in Brooklyn in 2008 but sounds of New Orleans are sprinkled throughout their latest, Wee + 3. The Trio tells stories of impressive depth through jazz; it is the most narrative an album could get without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[55,22,41,30,54,31,56,17,53],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press","tag-bam","tag-james-westfall","tag-jazz","tag-new-orleans","tag-nicholas-payton","tag-vibraphone","tag-wee-3","tag-wee-trio","tag-wwoz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jameswestfall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jameswestfall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jameswestfall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jameswestfall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jameswestfall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jameswestfall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"http:\/\/jameswestfall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jameswestfall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jameswestfall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jameswestfall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}