Tom Rainey Trio

An inventive and highly respected drummer active in N.Y.C. avant jazz and creative improvised music for three decades, Tom Rainey was content to remain a participant in collaborative sessions or a player on dates led by others -- Kenny Werner, Fred Hersch, Tim Berne, Mark Helias, and many more -- until the time and chemistry seemed right to assume the leadership role in this drums/guitar/saxophone trio. An important catalyst for the Tom Rainey Trio's formation was the arrival in Brooklyn of Germany-born tenor and soprano saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, a key contributor to the Lo...