Drop Trio at SugarHill

(HOUSTON, TEXAS) --October 15, 2004--Houston's favorite instrumental jazz funk group Drop Trio will release their second album entitled Leap this month.   The band decided to take this project in a different direction by recording an album that was entirely improvised.

Ian Varley , the band's piano and Rhodes extraordinaire and two time Houston Press Music Awards winner (2003 and 2004) said, "We didn't write any songs or rehearse any parts.   We just came into the studio with a totally blank slate and recorded on the spur of the moment."

The album was tracked in two hours on February 29, 2004 at SugarHill Recording Studios with Staff Engineer John Griffin.   The band then took the material to their home studio for editing.   They then returned to SugarHill to mix with Griffin and master the project at SugarHill's sister company Essential Sound.   Ian Varley , Nuje Blattel and Patrick Flanagan shared production credits on the album.

"What we ended up with was about 14 distinct sections.   The music rarely stops between tracks, but still the different sections ended up sounding like different 'songs,'" Varley commented.

The band plans to have a release party for the album on Saturday, October 23 at Last Concert Café in addition to an in-store performance at Cactus Music & Video at noon that same day.