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probably my favorite piano trio record is "thelonius monk plays duke ellington".
if you like monk--some think he is dissonant--i can see it, but i dont hear him that way exactly--he is kinda beyond the tonal/dissonant divide--then i would search libraries around whre you are to see if you can find the monk on riverside collection--a huge reservoir of excellent music---the smaller monk on prestige set is great too, especially the sides with sonny rollins in high groovemeister mode.
check out herbie nichols too, if you can locate anything of his--kinda in the same space as monk but more spare and a bit more stride-like.
if you like the oscar peterson space, then i would remind you of art tatu who was just a monster. bud powell. tristano.
there is an early ran blake album, with jeanne lee, that you might like too. cant remember the title--i had it for a while, and quite liked it. early paul bley too. for both ran blake and paul bley, their development took them more out--whence the stipulation.
o yes--money jungle: duke ellington, charles mingus and max roach....a real gem of a record--you rarely get to hear what a great pianist duke was. and the "rhythm section" is, in the parlance of our times, the shit.....
who else....there are lots of straight pianists out there--i am not a fan of that myself--you can check pablo or concord record catalogues for them for example.
sometime if you want to nudge toward the "dissonant" stuff a bit, i would suggest you find some of the records by air--henry threadgill's trio.
good luck...
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