On the first night of a one month stay at "Al Bustan Hotel" the musicians of "Three Wheel Drive" gave themselves a Challenge: to play the first 6 nights, 18 sets without once repeating a song. That they succeeded indicates the degree of their professionalism and depth.
Three expatriates (US and Armenia) who choose to live in Lebanon they now have 5 years of playing together and many songs behind them. Add another 18 years in Paris for Steve and Jack. The trio first came together in December, 1996 to re-open the "Casino Du Liban" and play every night for three month.
      Since, they have made a unique place for themselves in the Beirut Music World by being unclassifiable and incorruptible. You can hire them but you can not buy them. Visiting Jazz Greats like Larry Coryell, Charles Davis, Melissa Walker, Joe Lee Wilson and Tex Allen play with "Three Wheel Drive" and go back to New York to spread the word among musicians that there is a World Class rhythm section waiting and ready in Lebanon.
       By now the chemistry between them has evolved to a point where it is no longer necessary to say, "Let's do this. Let's do that". There is a musical dialogue going on and the conversation is beyond language.

Arthur Satyan-piano, Jack Gregg-bass, Steve Phillips-drums

comes from Memphis, Tenessee, "The Home of the Blues",USA. His earliest musical influences were the blues, rhythm'n blues, gospel and "country and western" music. In all that he playd from classic be-bop to free jazz he is never far from the blues.
      From 1964 to 1976 he lived in New York City where he studied bass with Frederick Zimmermann. Equally important to his education was the two years on the bandstand of Roy Eldridge. He traveled with Marian and Jimmy McPartland and the trio of Jaki Byard. With Gil Evans, it was monday nights at the Village Vanguard and the historic double orchestra concert at Carnegie Hall. He played with a bass ensemble with Steve Swallow, Eddie Gomez and percussionist Jumma Santos, and twice received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts to compose for his group.
     He formed in 1971 with Jack DeJohnette, Harold Vick, Bob Moses and Santos "COMPOST", one of the first jazz rock groups, which in two intense years discovered and developed an original music, performed in U.K., Canada and USA, and produced two albums. He was active in the free jazz and "loft" movements playing also with Horace Silver, Sam Rivers, Marion Brown, Gabor Szabo and the others. In 1976 he moved to Europe touring Hungary, Austria and West Germany with Imre Kosegi. Living in Paris he played with Memphis Slim, Joe Lee Wilson, Joe Henderson, Abbey Lincoln, LaVelle, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Mike Zwerin, Kirk Lightsey, Jacky Terrasson, and he others...
     He came to Lebanon for the first time in May 1995 and returned in November to take up residence in Beirut where he is a member of the "Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music" and the "Lebanese National Symthony Orchestra".