Sometimes it's the little things—the small changes to routine that free you up
to feel or do something fresh. In the case of Chad Taylor's trio on The Daily
Biological, there is no bass player. It's just the leader's drums, along with
driving piano from Neil Podgurski and expressive saxophone from Brian
Settles. Does the absence of a bass player—typically a staple of a jazz group
like this—make the band sound so fresh? Is this hole in the sound of the band
what gives them such flexibility and the ability to move in any direction? Is
less, well, you know, more? [...]