Word: trios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Abandoning the quintet medium bristly, three of the musicians performed Walter Piston's Trio for flute, clarinet, and has soon. This is an excellent work and shows that a composer who understands woodwinds as well as Professor Piston can attain a greater subtlety and variety of effects from three instruments than, for example, Persichetti could from five in the Pastoral which was performed immediately before the Piston work. One of the most interesting features of the Trio is its experimentation with the colors which can be attained by fast and soft figurations in the flute and clarinet with the bassoon...
...Love, My Life, My Happiness (Ames Brothers; Victor). A till-death-do-us-part ditty in a barbershop treatment by the popular Ames trio...
There is a plenty of appreciative laughter this week at Manhattan's Hickory House, where Pianist Marian McPartland and her trio toss their sizzling ideas back & forth on a raised platform in the center of a big oval bar. Thirty-five-year-old Marian, long, lean and suntanned, sits at the baby grand with an inward look in her eyes as her fingers ripple easily over the keyboard. Behind her are her solid sidemen, Bass Fiddler Bob Carter and Drummer Joe Morello, flicking out accompaniments. The result is some of the cleanest, most inventive "progressive" jazz to be heard...
...same style as Jimmy's. Although she can sock out a solid Southern jump when she wants to, she prefers the subtler, post-Dixieland style which aims to "feel" the beat instead of landing on it with both feet. Two years ago she formed her own trio, has been touring and .recording (for Savoy) ever since. Pianist McPartland loves it as much as her doting sidewalk superintendents. Her contented sum-up: "It's just not work...
Villa-Lobos: Trio for Violin, Viola & Cello (Members of the New York Quartet; Columbia). Whether he uses a full orchestra or limits himself to a mere three instruments, Villa-Lobos pours out ideas and melody as lavishly as rain in the jungles of his native Brazil. The trio teems with strong rhythm and ear-twisting changes; the three strings sometimes sound as rich as an orchestra...