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Veteran jazz pianist Hal Galper is back. With fellow band mates Billy Mintz on drums and Tony Marino on bass, his latest trio recording, "Agents Of Change," is a startling departure from his previous recordings. Disbanding his trio in 2000after ten years of touring internationally, Hal spent the following six years "in the shed" studying, practicing and developing his uniquely original style of playing. He and his trio have fashioned and ultra-modern musical approach combines the qualities of surprise, unpredictably, shifting textures, group improvisation and freedom, all within the context of a deeply swinging groove. Often episodic, the trio?s "off the top of your head" spontaneity and intuitive interaction spans the lexicon of jazz history. "Agents Of Change" includes three Galper originals: "Waiting For Chet," "Sonar," and "Liquid Audio," as well as startling and unexpected interpretations of the Tin Pan Alley evergreens "How Deep Is The Ocean," and "On Green Dolphin Street. A super-melodic version Wayne Shorter?s classic "E.S.P." opens the album and tucked away in the middle of it all is their radical rendering of the old Swedish folk tune "Dear Old Stockholm.