Well, it's Tuesday.  We'll call it Thinkers Tuesday.   The thinker (above) wanted me to post his favorite Crimson track, CAT FOOD but I kindly explained this was my blog.   🙂 

STARLESS, originally recorded by King Crimson for their Red album.   This cover by the Crimson Jazz Trio (CJ3) is an amazing jazz cover.    I've always loved the trio format in jazz.  For me the trio highlights the individual talents better and poses a greater challenge to how you fill/don't fill the silent void. 

The trio includes one Ian Wallace, himself a onetime contributor to the rock behemoth, King Crimson in the early 1970's for Islands and Earthbound albums.  King Crimson founder, Robert Fripp, has said about CJ3:  "The CJ3 have respectfully and irreverently taken eight Crimson classics, repositioned them in the musical spectrum, and delivered their first songbook with superb musicianship in service to wit and invention".   That is high praise indeed.

So enjoy this installment of "Under The Covers" and I'll add the original King Crimson version below.