Word: trios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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James McKeon, the police sergeant who arrested the three freshmen, was at the cemetery on another assignment when he claims to have found the students drinking beer around their parked car. En route to the Wakefield police headquarters, the trio, which was following McKeon in their car, reportedly tried to throw two typewriters from the auto...
...trio sings broadly swinging, word-for-note versions of arrangements by such famed big bands as Count Basic, Jimmy Lunceford, Duke Ellington. Jon Hendricks himself composes most of the lyrics, which are supposed to approximate-in sound and sense-the instrumental feel of the original band arrangement. Example: last week Singer Annie Ross, cast in the role of "brass," opened with the line "Dig Count Basie blow Joe's blues away," was seconded by the "reeds" (Hendricks, Arranger Dave Lambert) with the line "Blow Joe's blues away." After that the two sections sang together in a bouncing...
...times the lyrics tumbled out like rolling dice; at times they floated with a coolly languid back beat. Sometimes the trio sang three different lyric lines simultaneously...
...inspiration for the trio's verbal jazz comes from Lyricist Hendricks, who nearly ten years ago heard a version of Moody's Mood for Love in which lyrics had been dubbed in for a saxophone solo. Hendricks (now 37) and Boston Jazz Veteran (41) Dave Lambert experimented with instrumental-styled vocal writing for several years, eventually teamed up with London-born Annie Ross. The three of them now sing 30 songs, many of them Basie classics, e.g., Avenue C, It's Sand, Man-heavily flavored with jazz argot...
...trio now has two briskly selling albums, plus as many nightclub engagements as it can handle (including a Las Vegas offer that may go to $3,000 a week). A columnist suffering from typewriter fatigue recently, tagged the trio the Gilbert & Sullivans of Jazz. A more apt title might be the James Joyces of Jive...