Tryptique is a collaboration that goes way beyond prerequisites or rules. Composed of three close friends, they describe their music-making as being more like a conversation than a recording process with expectations. They stand for exploration, taking chances, and following musical intuition. And it shows, with compositions that aren’t confined to any particular classification. Tryptique describes their sound as chamber music with a jazz soul. Their sound ranges from Baroque to jazz, to classical, and beyond. They take their name from the word triptych which is a work of art divided into three sections hinged together. The word really gets at the heart of the type of collaboration they are seeking. Pianist Fern Lindzon, flutist and saxophonist Colleen Allen, and bassist George Koller have...