SCOTT SAWYER has been making music for years, playing venues of every description: music clubs, beer-soaked dives and prestigious venues around the world. Though Sawyer can swing cerebrally, solving prickly harmonic riddles like a mathematician, he's at his best as a bluecollar improviser combining funk, earthy jazz and accessible blues that make the listener wanna holler.

He envisioned an electric power trio with a respect for space (the silence between the notes) to interpret his music & ...