Word: trios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BILL EVANS, who usually stresses simplicity, has surrounded himself with strings for some improvisations on Bach, Chopin, Scriabin and Granados (Bill Evans Trio with Symphony Orchestra; Verve). It is best, and easy, to forget that Bach had anything to do with the gentle, romantic schmalz called Valse, but this and the other adaptations are pleasant displays of Evans' skilled, introspective and sometimes sentimental piano playing...
...studio technique of goosing one non-existent voice and twelve non-existent melody lines into a passable record. The resulting styles skip from Chinese to Calypso, by way of a plethora of hoked-up Folk Rock, and the one catchy tune, Bamiba, turns out to be an old Kingston Trio favorite, complete with only slightly altered lyrics. This theft, I must add, is in the best tradition of militant songsters the world over, and it is only to be regretted that Sadler and Bass confined their chicanery to the musical dregs of the last ten years...
Best jazz performance-For a small group, the Ramsey Lewis Trio's The 'In' Crowd (Cadet); and for a large group, the Duke Ellington Orchestra on Ellington '66 (Reprise...
...nonplused at the omission of Duquesne University's Bernard Goldberg, flutist of the Pittsburgh Symphony and the Musica Viva Trio, soloist with the Casals and Marlboro festivals...
...Miss Boyer was obviously frightened by the smallest prop manipulations. The general staging was no help. The two principals played against fuzzy, torn transparencies in a ramshackle slatboard set that was simply disgraceful, and moved underneath two ugly purple-specked quadrangles that had absolutely no function. An engaging jazz trio that sang mocking platitudes with Gleem-bright smiles was a lonely ray of grace amid the general desolation...