Put your records on piano12/20/2023 They released their hit “Back Home Again in Indiana” in September 1945. Garner’s left hand was so distinctively dominating that he didn’t feel the need to have a chording guitarist, so he substituted John Levy on bass to work in tandem with his drummer George De Hart. He landed the ultimate trio internship, subbing for Tatum in his trio at the Three Deuces in 1944. Art Tatum’s guitar trio followed in 1943, and many others came soon afterwards.īut for the piano-bass-drums layout, which dominates the format to the present day, we can thank Erroll Garner. The Nat Cole trio with guitar and drums started in 1940 and achieved instant popularity, helping to establish the trio format as a mainstay of the jazz club circuit (fewer instruments in small clubs meant more tables for paying customers, no doubt). Trios of various combinations, including a horn or guitar, go back to the late 1920s with Bix Beiderbecke, Clarence Profit, and Jelly Roll Morton, before the upright bass became a regular instrument in jazz. It’s impossible to say when piano trios started. If there’s a new movement in jazz, a new rhythm to fuse to swing, or a new approach to form, someone is working on it in a piano trio. Leaving aside, for the moment, the many other combinations of three possible instruments (particularly the perfect jazz combination of Hammond organ, electric guitar, and drums), the piano trio has become part of an enduring tradition charged with raising the bar of jazz creativity. The combination of piano, bass, and drums contains the minimum elements necessary for maximum expression. One way to see the history of modern jazz would be to use the lens of the piano trio. Tales: Live in Copenhagen (1964) – Bill Evans (Elemental) Never a Dull Moment! – Live from Coast to Coast 1966-1967 – Les McCann (Resonance) Two highly recommended sets available on vinyl in limited editions on Record Store Day, November 24.
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