
Kenny Drew Trio (Mono 2025 Remaster) Kenny Drew with Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones
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Album-Release:
1956
HRA-Release:
26.09.2025
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- 1 Caravan (Mono 2025 Remaster) 04:49
- 2 Come Rain Or Come Shine (Mono 2025 Remaster) 06:01
- 3 Ruby, My Dear (Mono 2025 Remaster) 05:38
- 4 Weird-O (Mono 2025 Remaster) 03:58
- 5 Taking A Chance On Love (Mono 2025 Remaster) 04:35
- 6 When You Wish Upon A Star (Mono 2025 Remaster) 05:11
- 7 Blues For Nica (Mono 2025 Remaster) 05:23
- 8 It's Only A Paper Moon (Mono 2025 Remaster) 06:21
Info for Kenny Drew Trio (Mono 2025 Remaster)
Der amerikanisch-dänische Pianist galt lange als unterschätzt, wie dieses Album von 1956 beweist. Das Album ist auch wegen der beneidenswerten Rhythmusgruppe um den Bassisten Paul Chambers und den Schlagzeuger Philly Joe Jones bemerkenswert, der, wie Drew, später mit Coltrane spielen sollte.
Das Trio kommt in Titeln wie dem atemlosen Bop von »Caravan« (einem Duke Ellington-Juwel) und dem coolen, swingenden »Blues for Nica«, einer Hommage an Baronin Pannonica de Koenigswarter, der berühmten Jazz-Mäzenin aus der Rothschild-Familie, auf so wohltuende Weise zusammen. Wenn Sie in weniger als einer Stunde auf Touren kommen und wieder abschalten wollen, ist dies das richtige Album für Sie.
„Drews zweites Original, „Blues For Nica“, ist funky und stimmungsvoll. Drews gefühlvolle Aussprache und Notation sind kraftvoll, und das Trio wechselt erneut geschmeidig in sanften Swing. Chambers glänzt in einem eher traditionellen Solo. Das Finale („It’s Only A Paper Moon“) interpretiert einen klassischen Pop-Klassiker als Jazz-Statement neu. Ein furioses Arrangement zeigt Drews technische Meisterschaft und stimmungsvolle Resonanz. Seine Intensität und Präzision (mit vielen gefühlvollen Akzenten) sind beeindruckend. Er und Jones wechseln sich mit Leichtigkeit ab. Das Werk ist komplex und zugänglich. Das Kenny Drew Trio ist eine hervorragende Ergänzung zu den Original Jazz Classics. Es ist ein hochkarätiges Klaviertrio, das den künstlerischen Stempel des Jazz der 50er Jahre prägt. Absolute Empfehlung!“ (Robbie Gerson, audaud.com)
Kenny Drew, Klavier
Paul Chambers, Kontrabass
Philly Joe Jones, Schlagzeug
Digital remastered
Kenny Drew (1928-1993)
was a top-notch bebop pianist influenced by Bud Powell who developed his own approach, fitting easily into hard-bop settings.
Drew began playing piano when he was five and within three years had given a recital. He made his recording debut with trumpeter Howard McGhee in 1950 and was in great demand during the decade. Drew had the opportunities to work with Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Buddy DeFranco, Dinah Washington, Art Blakey, Buddy Rich, and his own trios.
During 1956-1957, Drew recorded several worthy sets for the Riverside and Judson labels, music that has been reissued in the Original Jazz Classics series. Kenny Drew Trio teams him with bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Philly Joe Jones for six standards (including an early version of Thelonious Monk’s “Ruby, My Dear”) and his two originals “Weird-O” and “Blues for Nica.” Plays the Music of Harry Warren and Harold Arlen, duet dates with bassist Wilbur Ware, feature Drew’s interpretations of a dozen songs apiece by Warren and Arlen, the complete contents of two former LPs. This Is New teams Drew in a quintet with such up-and-coming hard-boppers as trumpeter Donald Byrd and tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley. Drew’s final Riverside date as a leader, Pal Joey, has the pianist, Wilbur Ware, and Philly Joe Jones performing five songs written by Rodgers and Hart for the play Pal Joey plus three earlier numbers that were included in the film including “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered” and “I Could Write a Book.”
In 1961, Drew moved to Paris, relocating permanently to Copenhagen three years later. He was well documented by the SteepleChase label in the 1970s and stayed very active up until the time of his death in 1993. His son, Kenny Drew, Jr, emerged in the 1990s as one of jazz’s top pianists.
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