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STLJN Audio Archive: Quartette Tres Bien - Stepping Out
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
For this week's Audio Archive post, we revisit Stepping Out!, a 1966 release by the popular St. Louis group Quartette Trés Bien. A groove-oriented piano-trio-plus-percussionist, the QTB rose to fame during the Gaslight Square era, right around the same time that Ramsey Lewis and Young-Holt Unlimited were successfully purveying similar sounds up in Chicago. The band's fifth album to get national distribution as part of their deal with Decca Records, Stepping Out! has been out of print for decades and ...
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STLJN Audio Archive: Quartette Tres Bien - Boss Tres Bien
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Today's Audio Archive post features the Quartette Tres Bien's debut recording for a national label, and comes to us via the blog Soundological Investimigations. QTB were one of the better known groups of St. Louis' Gaslight Square era, and were sometimes compared with Ramsey Lewis, the Three Sounds, and other piano-based groups playing groove-oriented music. The members of the group as heard on Boss Tres Bien were Jeter Thompson (piano), Richard Simmons (bass), Albert St. James (drums) and Percy James ...
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