Pianist and composer Vijay Iyer takes a break from his larger ensemble to strip down to a trip format with drummer Tyshawn Sorey and bassist Linda May Han Oh for a collections of (mostly) originals. The overall ambience is solemn, serious and sepia, with Iyer’s fingers working nimbly around Oh’s bass work on “Children Of Flint” and her solo on the panoramic gallop supplied by Sorey on the nifty read of Cole Porter’s “Night And Day”. The team trudges agonizingly forward on the modal post bopper “Touba” and is somber as they slowly build up the drama on the assertive “Uneasy”. Most clever is “Drummer’s Song” with Iyer and Oh repeating a pattern for Sorey’s majestic and intricate stick work, as well as “Configurations” with some galloping digits on the ivories. Iyer shows his mastery of dynamics as he goes solo on a sonata-like “Augury” while he’s melancholy to Sorey’s mallets on the climactic rubato of “Entrustment”. Pensive passions.