Lynne Arriale

Piano trio

by Piotr Michalowski

posted 5/1/2004

The piano trio — with bass and drums — is one of the classic jazz combos that developed during the bebop period. Earlier pianists often played alone or with a drummer. Later, Nat King Cole popularized the piano-bass-guitar combination; among his followers we find Ray Charles and Oscar Peterson. But from the 1950s on, pianists have gravitated toward

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