{{Short description|American jazz quartet}} {{More citations needed|date=May 2021}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians --> | name = Garage A Trois | image = GAT Tipitinas 2004.jpg | landscape =yes | caption = Garage A Trois at Tipitina's with Mean Willie Green sitting in on drums on April 28, 2004 | origin = New Orleans, Louisiana | genre = Jazz | years_active =1998–present | label = Fog City, Telarc | associated_acts = Galactic | website = {{URL|garageatrois.com}} | current_members = * Skerik * Stanton Moore * Charlie Hunter | past_members = * Marco Benevento * Mike Dillon }}
'''Garage A Trois''' is an American jazz quartet including drummer Stanton Moore, saxophonist Skerik, vibraphone and percussionist Mike Dillon and keyboardist Marco Benevento. They play a variety of music including rock, funk and jazz.<ref name="gambit">[https://web.archive.org/web/20030826224240/http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/2003-04-22/feat2.html Gambit cover story, Garage a Trois' Four-play] Cristina Diettinger, ''Gambit'', April 22, 2003 (the week leading to Jazz Fest) Retrieved March 13, 2008 Archived from [http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/2003-04-22/feat2.html the original]</ref>
== History == Garage A Trois was originally a trio founded by Moore, eight-string guitarist Charlie Hunter, and Skerik. It formed during the 1998 recording of Stanton Moore's debut ''All Kooked Out!'', a session that also yielded Garage A Trois' debut recording ''Mysteryfunk''. Both albums were produced by Dan Prothero on his independent Fog City Records label. They were also both recorded "live with no over dubs".<ref>liner notes</ref> Whereas ''All Kooked Out!'' was rehearsed, "straight-toned" and promoted as the initial release, ''Mysteryfunk'' was mostly improvised with electronically effected instruments and as Moore has stated had "all the freaky stuff."<ref>Interview WWOZ, All Kooked Out enhanced-CD, 1998, Fog City</ref>
After success as a live act they took on vibraphonist and percussionist Mike Dillon. The quartet performed multiple tours on the national nightclub circuit and played at several festivals. They were known to perform a wide variety of music in any given show including funk, punk-rock with electronic effects, or straightforward jazz.<ref name="gambit" />
In 2007, Moore, Skerik and Dillon continued to perform by the Garage A Trois moniker featuring other musicians such as John Medeski and Marco Benevento.<ref>[http://www.stateofmindmusic.com/articles_print.php?articleId=180 Conversation with Stanton Moore] Doug Collette, ''Stateofmindmusic.com'', April 2007 Retrieved June 21, 2007</ref>
In October 2009, Garage A Trois released their first studio CD with the Benevento line-up, ''Power Patriot''.<ref>Keith Spera [http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2009/11/garage_a_trois_ranges_from_lou.html Garage A Trois ranges from lounge jazz to prog-rock on a new CD] ''Nola.com'', November 13, 2009</ref>
On August 20, 2012, Garage A Trois played a show at the Brooklyn Bowl in New York, with a lineup consisting of just Charlie Hunter, Skerik and Mike Dillon. The show is notable for the return of Charlie Hunter, the lack of Benevento or Moore, and Dillon playing a traditional drum kit for most of the show.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/gat2012-08-20.mk21.flac16|title=Garage A Trois Live at Brooklyn Bowl on 2012-08-20|date=20 August 2012|access-date=5 May 2021|via=Internet Archive}}</ref>
==Discography== * ''Mysteryfunk'' (Fog City, 1999) * ''Emphasizer'' (Tone-Cool, 2003) * ''Outre Mer'' (Telarc, 2005) * ''Power Patriot'' (Royal Potato Family, 2009) * ''Always Be Happy, But Stay Evil'' (Royal Potato Family, 2011) * ''Calm Down Cologne'' (Royal Potato Family, 2021)<ref>{{Cite news |date=March 31, 2021 |title=Listen: Garage A Trois Share "The Epic" Off New LP ''Calm Down Cologne'' |work=Glide Magazine |url=https://glidemagazine.com/255439/listen-garage-a-trois-share-the-epic-off-new-lp-calm-down-cologne/ |access-date=April 2, 2021}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.garageatrois.com/ Official site] * [https://www.myspace.com/garageatrois Garage A Trois] at MySpace * [http://www.fogworld.com/gat Fog City Records presents: Garage A Trois] * [https://archive.org/details/GarageATrois Garage A Trois collection] at the Internet Archive's live music archive
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