Refraction – Breakin' Glass is an album by Trio 3, a jazz group consisting of saxophonist Oliver Lake, bassist Reggie Workman and drummer Andrew Cyrille, with guest pianist Jason Moran.
[2] The Down Beat review by Alain Drouot states "At this stage of their collaboration, Lake, Workman and Cyrille can operate in telepathic ways, and Moran does a fine job at finding his place, without being a distraction.
"[3] The All About Jazz review John Sharpe notes "Part of the joy of Trio 3 lies in the way even the relatively straightforward numbers feel on the edge of falling apart in a welter of delicious dissonance and arhythmic clatter, but never quite do.
"[6] Writing for The Guardian, John Fordham commented: "Long passages on this set still involve the uninhibited Lake unleashing wild, multiphonic sounds and high-end inquisitions, or Workman scurrying through tumbling group-improv episodes with dark bowed-bass slurs.
"[5] In a review for The Santa Fe New Mexican, Bill Kohlhaase wrote: "This gathering of three septuagenarians and a 30-something pianist is a measure of where free jazz has landed some 50 years after its inception... Their work here with pianist Jason Moran is the classic free-jazz blend of form and formlessness, the sound defined by strange themes, the styles of the individual musicians, and the interplay between them... For all its improvisational anarchy, this music brings shape and substance to a form of jazz that’s often thought to contain neither.