Garage A Trois

Garage A Trois (aka GAT) is a quartet including drum- 2 Discography

mer Stanton Moore, saxophonist Skerik, vibraphone and
percussionist Mike Dillon and keyboardist Marco Ben- • 1999 Mysteryfunk (Fog City)
evento. They play a variety of music including rock, funk
and jazz.[1] • 2003 Emphasizer (Tone-Cool)

• 2005 Outre Mer (Telarc)

1 History • 2009 Power Patriot (Royal Potato Family)

• 2011 Always Be Happy, But Stay Evil (Royal Potato

Garage A Trois was originally a trio founded by Moore, Family)
eight-string guitarist Charlie Hunter, and Skerik. It
formed during the 1998 recording of Stanton Moore's de-
but All Kooked Out!, a session that also yielded Garage A
Trois’ debut recording Mysteryfunk. Both albums were 3 External links
produced by Dan Prothero on his independent Fog City
Records label. They were also both recorded “live with no • Official site
over dubs”.[2] Whereas All Kooked Out! was rehearsed,
• Garage A Trois at MySpace
“straight-toned” and promoted as the initial release, Mys-
teryfunk was mostly improvised with electronically ef- • Fog City Records presents: Garage A Trois
fected instruments and as Moore has stated had “all the
freaky stuff.”[3] • Garage A Trois collection at the Internet Archive's
live music archive
After success as a live act they took on vibraphonist and
percussionist Mike Dillon. The quartet performed mul-
tiple tours on the national nightclub circuit and played at
several festivals. They were known to perform a wide va- 4 References
riety of music in any given show including funk, punk-
rock with electronic effects, or straightforward jazz.[1] [1] Gambit cover story, Garage a Trois’ Four-play Cristina Di-
Also as a quartet they released two composed studio al- ettinger, Gambit, April 22, 2003 (the week leading to Jazz
Fest) Retrieved March 13, 2008
bums in 2003 and 2005 abandoning the “live with no
overdubs” recording ethos. [2] liner notes
In 2007 Moore, Skerik and Dillon continued to perform [3] Interview WWOZ, All Kooked Out enhanced-CD, 1998,
by the Garage A Trois moniker featuring other musi- Fog City
cians such as John Medeski and Marco Benevento.[4] The
current quartet as of December 2007 including Moore, [4] Conversation with Stanton Moore Doug Collette, www.
Skerik, Dillon and Benevento have been billed also as stateofmindmusic.com, April 2007 Retrieved June 21,
“Garage A Benevento”, “Garaj A Benevento” and most 2007
recently as simply “Garage A Trois”. [5] Keith Spera Garage A Trois ranges from lounge jazz to
October 2009 Garage A Trois released their first studio prog-rock on a new CD nola.com, November 13, 2009
CD with the Benevento line-up, Power Patriot.[5] [6] https://archive.org/details/gat2012-08-20.mk21.flac16
In 2011 the same lineup released another full-length disc,
“Always Be Happy, But Stay Evil” on the Royal Potato
Family label, and subsequently toured to promote it.
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 Ben-
evento or Moore, and Dillon playing a traditional drum
kit for most of the show.[6]

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