PERSPECTIVES 40 (2019)
Two piano trios, forty years apart. From 1978, a never before released live CBC radio session of originals, with Charlie on piano and suitcase Fender Rhodes, Tom Doran on drums, and John Sereda on bass. A lifetime later, from 2018, a new perspective, with both originals and standards, with Mike Lent on bass, and Jamie Cooper on drums.
PERSPECTIVES 40 is available at CDBaby in both digital download and CD form, and also on iTunes. |
IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU (2016)
Beloved standards from the North American Songbook receive masterful and creative expression in this new solo piano collection. Enjoy Charlie's interpretations of the music of Rodgers & Hart, Cole Porter, Gershwin, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, and others in this swingin' tribute to the classics.
IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU is available for download at CDBaby and iTunes. Physical CDs are available at CDBaby. Enjoy! |
HOMAGE (2014)
HOMAGE is an energetic, creative, lyrical interplay of piano, bass and drums, featuring jazz classics and Charlie Austin's originals. HOMAGE features the Charlie Austin Trio with Vancouver's Rene Worst on bass, and Mike Gillespie on drums.
HOMAGE is now available for download at CDBaby and iTunes. Physical CDs are available at CDBaby. Enjoy! |
"Top Notch Jazz Piano Trio. Suited both for the concert hall as well as the smoky downtown jazz club, Mr Austin and his trio display the interconnected sensibilities of seasoned veterans so familiar with this art form that they achieve virtual musical telepathy with one another. Charlie Austin is seemingly possessed of an inexhaustible artistic imagination and limitless chops. His forays into the outer limits of jazz piano are still always rooted in solid tradition, with eminently satisfying results. This piano, bass & drums trio grooves like mad. Check 'em out!"
About Rene Worst and Mike Gillespie:
Rene has been a major presence on the Vancouver jazz scene since 1971. His virtuosic abilities and supportive presence have established him as an internationally known bassist, producer and teacher, performing with the likes of Alice Stuart, Chet Baker, Freddie Hubbard, Jennifer Love-Hewitt, and many more over his long career. He is one of the founding members of noted fusion band “Skywalk” with whom he has produced six recordings, as well as performing and producing albums with his wife, vocalist Jennifer Scott, and he has appeared on innumerable recordings as a sideman.
A veteran of the Edmonton jazz scene, Mike Gillespie has worked with such Edmonton notables as Judi Singh, Bryan Sim, Andrew Glover and Mark Andrews, and as a sideman with many other local and international musicians. His trio with Stuart Crosley and John Taylor released a CD “NuSteps” in 2005. Mike is member of the "Jazz Passages" trio with Bryan Sim and Farley Scott. He first played with Charlie in 1982, and has been a key member of the Charlie Austin Trio in recent years.
- Jeff Brent — jazz pianist, performer and educator
About Rene Worst and Mike Gillespie:
Rene has been a major presence on the Vancouver jazz scene since 1971. His virtuosic abilities and supportive presence have established him as an internationally known bassist, producer and teacher, performing with the likes of Alice Stuart, Chet Baker, Freddie Hubbard, Jennifer Love-Hewitt, and many more over his long career. He is one of the founding members of noted fusion band “Skywalk” with whom he has produced six recordings, as well as performing and producing albums with his wife, vocalist Jennifer Scott, and he has appeared on innumerable recordings as a sideman.
A veteran of the Edmonton jazz scene, Mike Gillespie has worked with such Edmonton notables as Judi Singh, Bryan Sim, Andrew Glover and Mark Andrews, and as a sideman with many other local and international musicians. His trio with Stuart Crosley and John Taylor released a CD “NuSteps” in 2005. Mike is member of the "Jazz Passages" trio with Bryan Sim and Farley Scott. He first played with Charlie in 1982, and has been a key member of the Charlie Austin Trio in recent years.
IF I SHOULD LOSE YOU (2012)
Released in 2012, this album emerges from a serendipitous live recording session. Beautifully mastered, these exquisite and spontaneous interpretations of jazz standards feature tunes by by Henry Mancini, Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Antonio Carlos Jobim and more, as well as Charlie’s own “Song for Bill Evans.”
IF I SHOULD LOSE YOU is available for download at CDBaby and iTunes. |
"an absolute pleasure to hear masterful Charlie Austin... this superb sounding CD shows him at his best...freely exploring the full range of a life of music and energy and joy... for those of us that know him or have performed with him or have studied music with him, this is the CD to play on constant repeat and know that every moment will sound vital and fresh as if it was heard for the first time....bravo!"
George Koller — Shuffle Demons
George Koller — Shuffle Demons