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Hal Gaylor/Walter Norris/Billy Bean: The Trio
by Derek Taylor
This disc presents the all-too-common story of a jazz group that should have recorded far more often than it did, but fell apart just as things were getting really interesting. It’s no mere afterthought that the three musicians documented here took the epithet “The Trio” to describe their collective vision. As the eight tracks on this disc illustrate each man is an integral component in the group’s palpably inventive Gestalt.
Jim Hall’s liners offer an illuminating description of how the ...
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
The history of modern jazz is stocked with sensational trios. These include the Nat King Cole Trio, the Red Norvo Trio, the Oscar Peterson Trio, the Thelonious Monk Trio, the Jimmy Giuffre 3, the Horace Silver Trio, the Ahmad Jamal Trio, the Wes Montgomery Trio and the Bill Evans Trio among many others. Now add one more: a group known briefly simply as The Trio. Formed by bassist Hal Gaylor, the group featured Gaylor, Walter Norris on piano and Billy ...
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