The Trio: Billy Bean · Hal Gaylor · Walter Norris (includes Bonus Tracks)

Description: The Trio: Billy Bean · Hal Gaylor · Walter Norris (includes Bonus Tracks) Walter Norris Featuring: Billy Bean (g), Hal Gaylor (b), Walter Norris (p) REFERENCE: FSRCD 779 The Trio is one of those comparatively little-known albums still revered by aficionados as a gem of its kind. Originally conceived by Hal Gaylor (born 1929), it combined his considerable powers as a bassist with the remarkable talents of guitarist Billy Bean (1933-2012) and pianist Walter Norris (1931-2011) in a trio that was musical democracy at its most fluent and creative. United by this interactive credo, they released only one album – the eponymous The Trio – in the group’s sadly brief life, although the bonus tracks here (9-14) appeared later. Bean, with his inventiveness, lyricism, his harp-like tone, accuracy and speed, was in magisterial form, aided and abetted by Norris, a truly gifted improviser and accompanist who spent most of his subsequent career in Germany, and Gaylor, the fulcrum round which the group’s engaging interplay swirled and developed. The guitar-piano-bass setting has a long and honoured jazz lineage, beginning with the Nat Cole Trio and continuing with Art Tatum’s, the Oscar Peterson-Barney Kessel/Herb Ellis-Ray Brown lineups and the memorable Jim Hall-Carl Perkins-Red Mitchell and Hall-Mitchell-Red Kelly groups. This one is right up there with the best of them. Tracklisting: 01. Groove Yard (Perkins) 5:19 02. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (Harbach-Kern) 4:57 03. The End of a Love Affair (Redding) 5:09 04. Scramble (Norris) 3:21 05. Out Front (Bean) 4:09 06. Che-Low (Gaylor) 4:08 07. For Heaven’s Sake (Meyer-Bretton) 5:28 08. D. & D. (Norris) 5:03 Bonus tracks: 09. Have You Met Miss Jones (Rodgers-Hart) 4:14 10. Safari (Silver) 4:21 11. All of You (Porter) 3:57 12. Motivation (Bean) 2:42 13. Land’s End (Land) 7:32 14. Lush Life (Strayhorn) 3:47 Sources: Tracks #1-8, from the 12-inch LP “The Trio” (Riverside RLP 380) Tracks #9-14, promotional recordings also issued on the CD “The Trio - Rediscovered” (String Jazz SJRCD1007) which contains three more tracks. Personnel in all tracks: Walter Norris, piano; Billy Bean, guitar; Hal Gaylor, bass. Recorded in New York City, June 6 & 30, 1961 (#1-8), and 1962 (#9, 11, 14) and Greenwood Lake, 1961 (#10, 12, 13) Original Riverside recordings (#1-8) produced by Orrin Keepnews and bonus tracks (#9-14) by The Trio (Gaylor-Norris-Bean) Recording Engineer: Ray Fowler at Plaza Sound Studios, NYC. (#1-8) Cover photo by Steve Shapiro This CD release produced by Jordi Pujol Stereo · 24-Bit Digitally Remastered

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