.... bring energy, joy and fire to their playing in a style that mixes the best of 60s free jazz combined with an eclectic and unpredictable compositional approach. The group plays with a terrific intensity. O’Dwyer’s ripe alto sound drives the music forward combining organically and spontaneously with the forceful and dynamic rhythm section of Darren Moore drums and Clayton Thomas bass. The trio’s sound could perhaps be described as a meeting point between the energy music of The Schlippenbach Trio and the stringent lyricism found in Webern. The jazz tradition is certainly there in all their playing but it is how they have reworked all these influences that make the approach fresh and original. Like free jazz meets melodic serialism with the blues injected every now and then.
The TOD3 have played together since 2005 and released their debut CD “Broken River” in April 2006 and followed this with several tours of the east coast of Australia performing at the 2006 JAZZ:NOW Festival (Sydney Opera House) and Wangaratta Jazz Festivals. During the latter festival in Wangaratta the trio performed and developed an ongoing creative partnership with the Eric Boeren/ Michael Vatcher/ Wilbert DeJoode Trio from Holland, a collaboration that continues into 07 with more shows planned in Europe. The trio will be performing at MOSAIC Festival in Singapore in March 07, Singapore’s premier music event.
 
“The three jammed the power on with such severity that I wondered how the broad audience would take it straight out of the gate. You know the feeling: phwoof! This is great; I wonder if everyone else can feel it. The response showed that they surely could”- John Clare www.jazz.org.au

"O'Dwyer seems to cast off all sense of time, place, and indeed self...his visceral, driven performance made you feel like he was exposing everything the human body has to show."-- Sydney Morning Herald.