Barry Guy has a long experience in piano trios and piano-bass duos: from the Howard Riley Trio in the 1960s to the most recent trio with the phenomenal pianist Izumi Kimura and Gerry Hemingway. Jordina Millà is an important figure in the Catalan scene. Her music is original and distinctive, her way of transforming abstraction into lyrical sounds is absolutely unique and uncompromising. She is an ideal partner for Barry Guy: both can be extremely lyrical, sad and melancholic without losing simplicity or abstract complexity. “String Fables” (Fundacja Sluchaj! FSR, 2022) is their first album together, and in 2024 they released “Live in Munich” by ECM records.

Biographies

Jordina Millà is a pianist and improviser based in Austria. Nowadays free improvised music, contemporary language and multidisciplinar scenarios are her main interest. In spring 2018 she debuted with her Solo album “Males herbes”. “When forests dream” a two pianos album with Agustí Fernández,  has been awarded by Enderrock de les Illes Balears, for the best Jazz album 2020. 

Barry Guy is an innovative bass player and composer. He is founder and Artistic Director of the London Jazz Composers Orchestra and the BGNO (Barry Guy New Orchestra) for which he has written several extended works. In 2014 he founded the “Blue Shroud Band” to perform his composition “The Blue Shroud” based on Picasso’s painting “Guernica” with texts by the Irish poet Kerry Hardie.