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Arc Trio is veteran bassist/composer Mario Pavone's first live recording featuring Pavone on bass, pianist Craig Taborn and drummer Gerald Cleaver. Since joining the roster in April 2000, Pavone's recordings on the Playscape label include 11 releases as a leader or co-leader.
Arc Trio includes new compositions along with compositions from Pavone's archives, all recorded live at the historic Cornelia Street Cafe in Greenwich Village. In his liner notes Pavone writes, \"I had considered the drawbacks of live recording... In the end my decision centered on the fact that the live experience is at the heart of improvised music.\"
In Arc Trio, Pavone credits his contribution to the record as \"directly related to my near obsession and deep immersion in a handful of vinyl piano trio recordings\", such as Steve Kuhn's Three Waves with Steve Swallow and the late drummer Pete LaRoca, Paul Bley's 1962 release Floater and Andrew Hill's Smokestack among others.
