Trio Hurricane

Suite Of Winds is the only studio album by Trio Hurricane, the trio of tenor saxophonist Glenn Spearman, bassist William Parker and drummer Paul Murphy. It was recorded in California on August 25, 1986, and the insert of this Black Saint CD dedicates the suite to Jimmy Lyons, Frank Wright and Jay Oliver. Reviewing the trio's reunion in The Worcester Phoenix in 1998, Ed Hazell called them "the fire-breathing Trio Hurricane" and wrote that their one previous album was a tribute to Jimmy Lyons, after which they had not played together.

The session took place at Xandor Recording Studios in Orinda, with Jim Weyeneth engineering. Murphy produced the date, Giovanni Bonandrini was executive producer and Jere Carroll wrote the liner notes. The suite is laid out as four compass points. North runs over fifteen minutes and East close to nineteen, the two long movements of the record, with South at eleven. West, barely two minutes, closes the album. The trio met again at the Fire in the Valley festival in Amherst, Massachusetts, a set released by Eremite as Live At Fire In The Valley. Hazell heard a band that "picked up where they left off in a set played with life-or-death intensity".

This is the Black Saint CD 120102-2, with a 1994 copyright. Discogs marks it as a reissue but lists no earlier edition.