Word: trios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ramsey Lewis Trio, a Chicago group fashioned after the Ahmad Jamal Trio (which got top festival billing, but favored too many innovations at the expense of recognizable jazz). The trio played its progressive music with such style that it was the second night's biggest...
...Fair Lady, with Edwardian delight, The Music Man, with mid-America homeyness, and Flower Drum Song, with Oriental charm, make a trio of memorable musicals. Redhead cuts a pretty figure-and the best of it is Gwen Verdon...
...love to have a little boy," says Trumpeter Miles Davis, "with red hair, green eyes and a black face-who plays piano like Ahmad Jamal." Trumpeter Davis is one of the more fervent admirers of the pianist whose group is currently the hottest trio in jazz. Its leader is neither red-haired nor green-eyed-but the spell he casts on his faithful followers, including many a fellow jazzman, sometimes suggests the arrival of the first Martian from outer space...
Jamal studied piano privately, was sitting in with touring jazz groups as a sideman by the time he was eleven, had his own trio when he was 21. He has since composed (Seleritus, Ahmad's Blues) as well as performed. He did not develop his distinctively understated style until after his conversion, which, he feels, gave him the necessary "inner peace of mind" to play as he does...
...Reiss Merin, Mary Perrine, and Patricia O'Grady make a really spine-chilling trio of Weird Sisters, though someone slipped up in failing to provide them with the beards that Banquo calls attention to. All three of their scenes are most ingeniously and effectively staged...