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Biography
Infobox musical artist|name = Garage A Trois|image = GAT Tipitinas 2004.jpg|caption = Garage A Trois at Tipitina's with Mean Willie Green sitting in on drums. April 28, 2004|background = group_or_band|origin = New Orleans , Louisiana |birth_name =|alias =|years_active = 1998& ndash;present|current_members = Stanton Moore Skerik Mike Dillon (musician)|Mike Dillon Marco Benevento |label = Fog City Records Tone-Cool Telarc |associated_acts = Galactic |website = http://www.garageatrois.com/ garageatrois.com|past_members = Charlie Hunter Garage A Trois (aka GAT ) is a quartet including drummer Stanton Moore , saxophonist Skerik , vibraphone and percussionist Mike Dillon (musician)|Mike Dillon and keyboardist Marco Benevento . They play a variety of music including Rock music|rock , Funk music|funk and jazz . 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
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& #33; (Stanton Moore album)|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".liner notes 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."Interview WWOZ, All Kooked Out enhanced-CD, 1998, Fog City
After success as a live act they took on vibraphone|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. Also as a quartet they released two composed studio albums in 2003 and 2005 abandoning the "live with no overdubs" recording ethos.
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. http://www.stateofmindmusic.com/articles_print.php? articleId=180 Conversation with Stanton Moore Doug Collette, www.stateofmindmusic.com , April 2007 Retrieved June 21, 2007 The current quartet as of December 2007 including Moore, Skerik, Dillon and Benevento have been billed also as "Garage A Benevento", "Garaj A Benevento" and most recently as simply "Garage A Trois".
October 2009 Garage A Trois released their first studio CD with the Benevento line-up, Power Patriot .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
Discography
1999 Mysteryfunk (Fog City)
2003 Emphasizer (Tone-Cool)
2005 Outre Mer (Telarc)
2009 Power Patriot (Royal Potato Family)
2011 Always Be Happy, But Stay Evil (Royal Potato Family)
External links
http://www.garageatrois.com/ Official site
http://www.myspace.com/garageatrois Garage A Trois at MySpace
http://www.fogworld.com/gat Fog City Records presents: Garage A Trois
http://www.archive.org/details/GarageATrois Garage A Trois collection at the Internet Archive 's live music archive
References
Category:American rock music groups Category:American jazz ensembles Category:American funk musical groups
