Tom Rainey

On this second CD with his band Obbligato Tom Rainey surprises with standards and beautiful love songs like «Stella by Starlight», «What Is This Thing Called Love» or «I Fall in Love too Easily». Tom Rainey has played in bands with Tim Berne, Fred Hirsch and Craig Taborn, and his own trio with Ingrid Laubrock and Mary Halvorson. For this ensemble he chose some of the finest players New York has to offer: Ingrid Laubrock, Ralph Alessi, Kris Davis and Drew Gress.

PERSONNEL:

RALPH ALESSI, trumpet
INGRID LAUBROCK, saxes
KRIS DAVIS, piano
DREW GRESS, bass
TOM RAINEY, drums

Recorded at Brooklyn Recording in New York on January 19th, 2017.

TRACKS:

01. Stella by Starlight
02. Beatrice
03. What Is This Thing Called Love
04. What's New
05. There is no Greater Love
06. Float Upstream
07. I Fall in Love too Easily