Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio

*2026 stock* The Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio in concert at Montreux, and one of the relatively few records that documents the working group on an international stage. By the time of this recording the trio had already been together for years, and the band's mutual understanding shows in the way pieces unfold: long heads, patient solos, and a rhythm section that responds to the leader's harmonic choices before he has finished making them.

Yamamoto plays with the bluesy, slightly behind-the-beat phrasing that became his signature, and the festival setting gives the trio room to stretch out without losing its characteristic sense of restraint. There's nothing radical here (this is a piano trio working firmly within the post-Oscar Peterson tradition), but the consistency and craft are exactly what Three Blind Mice listeners have always come to the label for. A solid international-stage document of one of the label's flagship groups, and a useful complement to the better-known studio sets. Reissued in the Three Blind Mice Supreme Collection 1500.