Nehring/Koller & Braid

Nehring/Koller & Braid: Set In Stone

by Jerry D'Souza
January 22, 2006

On Set in Stone, Lorne Nehring, George Koller, and David Braid pay tribute to Fred Stone, a musician and educator who was the first Canadian in Duke Ellington's band. And while that is an achievement in itself, Stone did much more with his calling. He played the piano, the flugelhorn, and the trumpet and experimented with an amplified horn and a synthesiser in the sixties. As a composer, he wrote for small groups and big bands, later giving up formal ...