Stephane Furic Leibovici

Music For 3 (Vol. 1) is a trio session led by bassist and composer Stéphane Furic Leibovici with saxophonist Chris Cheek and drummer Patrick Goraguer, recorded in New York on December 5, 1997 and released by Soul Note more than five years later, in 2003. The same three players are the core of Furic Leibovici's albums The Twitter-Machine and Kishinev, where drummer Jim Black joins them. In his own biography the bassist describes his work of those years as a bridge between late twentieth-century through-composed music and writing for virtuoso improvisers.

Cheek plays tenor and soprano, Furic Leibovici double bass, Goraguer drums, with no piano or guitar in the band. Four of the seven pieces are by the leader, among them In The Embrasure and Her At Sunset, which closes the disc at seven minutes. Cheek wrote the opener, After All These Years, the three players share credit for And The Light Dances On, and the one standard is Harold Arlen's My Shining Hour. Furic Leibovici produced the record himself, Flavio Bonandrini was executive producer, Aldo Borrelli mastered it and John Corbett wrote the liner notes. The whole programme lasts about 43 minutes. The partnership with Cheek went on after this record, in Jugendstil, a trio with clarinettist Chris Speed, and in Jugendstil II, with Lee Konitz.

Soul Note CD 121415-2, first released in 2003.