Gabriela Friedli Trio - Started (2013)

The CD Started of Gabriela Friedli, Daniel Studer and Dieter Ulrich is a persuasive opening statement regardless of what metric is used to assess the album, be it the album's contribution to Swiss jazz's evolving narrative, its articulation of a wide range of compositional and improvisational strategies that will shape jazz in the immediate future, or its riposte to the increasingly soporific state of the jazz piano trio. The album's more immediate virtue, however, is that it is thoroughly engaging from beginning to end.