With tracks that are sentimental, exuberant, and consoling, The Jeff Hamilton Trio’s latest release Symbiosis from Capri Records exude a number of characteristics that touch human emotions. Produced by Hamilton, Symbiosis has an overall upbeat feel jeweled in Hamilton’s drums, Tamir Hendelman’s piano keys, and Christopher Luty’s bass. It is an album for all seasons and all types of folks. Eschewing the specifications that jazz trios adhere to, Hamilton’s trio can pass themselves off as a complete orchestra if they chose to with compositions that are full bodied and hark of swing-jazz hops and lavish ballroom décor.

The delightful frills of the piano keys along “You Make Me Feel So Young” are nestled in lounging bass arcos and drumbeats which lay down the groundwork for the cozy feel of the balladry ruffles lining Lionel Hampton’s tune “Midnight Sun.” The sentimental mood of the trio’s rendition of Claus Ogerman’s melody “Symbiosis” covers the listener in soft, eloquently phrased swells and beckons a springy, swing-jazz propulsion in George Gershwin’s classic romp “Fascinating Rhythm.” The sexy curves which the trio puts on Ray Brown’s number “Blues For Junior” have a catchy rhythmic peddling, which strolls into elegantly feathered ringlets garnishing Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen’s minstrel “Polka Dots And Moonbeams.”

The energetic, Latin-draped quakes of “Samba de Martello” written by Hamilton, are freckled in bold piano sprigs and flashing surges in the drum strikes. The bluesy lulling in the trio’s interpretation of Harold Arien’s sonnet “Blues In The Night” has a sensual stroking which heats up in their delivery of Miles Davis’ tune “The Serpent’s Tooth” mounted in fiery drum trembles that chase after the soaring keys of the piano vamps. The number has a dancehall style girdled in sophisticated quivers which initiate a playfulness in the melodic phrases and stacks of rattling improvisations.

The Jeff Hamilton Trio puts in dashes of harmonious tugging and coasting in their tracks keeping the songs active and malleable in their hands. The trio integrates their parts like a master chef integrates simple components to make a mouth-watering dish. Individually each instrument has a neutral glow, but when the parts are bridged together, the result metamorphosing into a grand montage with big band muscle. The trio’s rapport is inspiring and their dialogue is aurally melodic producing music with dancehall style and swing-jazz sophistication.