Cold Fusion

Trio AAB is the name for the trio featuring twin brothers Tom (drums) and Phil (sax) Bancroft with guitarist Kevin MacKenzie. This CD brings together a set of diverse influences from ECM style jazz, Celtic folk music, drum 'n bass, house music, Ornette Coleman, and hip hop yet remains resolutely itself. COLD FUSION features all three musicians as composers as well as performers and uses state of the art recording and production techniques rarely used in the jazz field. It is a vision of the future of jazz in the next century. 'Two brothers called Bancroft...they are good' Sun Ra 'Languidly beautiful' The Herald 'the most complete mix of invention and originality' The Times 'beguiling, itchy, industrial creativity' The Herald 'very sharp, very intelligent ..excellent and audacious' John Fordham, The Guardian ' a startling pointer to a new club-friendly jazz sound' The Guardian Trio AAB's CD 'Cold Fusion' was chosen as one of the Worldwide Albums of the Year 1999 by Radio 3's top Jazz programme 'Jazz on 3'