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Wynton Kelly Trio | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 5, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Ojc
• ASIN: B000000Z2X
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #144,498 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The "Full View" of Wynton Kelly, December 14, 2006

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Charles Andrew Whitehead (Fort Worth, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Full View (Audio CD)

The music on this CD makes you feel like life is worth the living. Beautifully recorded, the recording puts the bass very forward in one channel so that you almost feel Ron McClure may actually be in your living room. Jimmy Cobb is also enormously empathetic towards Wynton in a musical sense.
Wynton Kelly was Dinah Washington's accompanist early in his career and this is to be heard to great effect in "Backwater Blues", a Bessie Smith tune heard in Dinah Washington Complete Mercury Vol.5 in a vintage 50s Newport Jazz Festival recording, featuring other great musicians such as Frank Rosolino on trombone. "What A Difference" was a hit for Dinah and Wynton's playing of it on "Full View" reflects that wonderful blues-tinged vocabulary that never strains for effect in its melodic twists and turns.
From ballads such as "I Want A Little Girl", uptempo 3/4 "I Thought", the modal "Doncha Hear Me" (similar to Miles' "Milestones"), "Autumn Leaves" (a Wynton Kelly specialty!), to various pop and Broadway Hits, Wynton Kelly's lines really SING. In this respect his playing has a horn-like intensity not unlike a Bird or Dexter or Wes. Beyond that he, like Ahmad Jamal or a Monty Alexander, knows how to effectively "orchestrate" his piano improvisations so that tremolos, double-time passages, triplets, block-chording are all used to enhance the structure of a solo. The miracle is the spontaneity of it all- he makes it sound so easy that we tend to underappreciate the musical completeness and discipline he applied on a consistent level.
One may question his choice of repertoire but remember that the way jazz musicians develop their material becomes at least as important as the material itself. Coltrane and Keith Jarrett for example can be heard playing long stretches on one chord which will be called a "composition". Wynton Kelly's artistry can be appreciated on multiple levels- it communicates an authentic and positive jazz vibe that a non-musician will dig as well as fulfilling the desire of a musician wanting to broadenen his iii-vi-ii-v vocabulary.
This CD is great- check it out and enjoy part of the rich legacy left by the extremely influential and accessible Wynton Kelly.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Lyrical Wynton Kelly, April 24, 2008

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Brian D. Fitzpatrick (Medford, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Full View (Audio CD)

Wynton Kelly-piano
Ron McClure-bass
Jimmy Cobb-drums

This is vintage material.Wynton Kelly,the leader of this session, really gets a chance to pour out his vast array of melodic and harmonic ideas on all the tunes.He has a very personal voice,one of a kind.The trio is crisp,resulting from top-shelf support from Ron McClure(bass) and Jimmy Cobb(drums). "What A Difference A Day Makes"(Stanley Adams-Maria Grever),and "Autumn Leaves"(Kosma-Mercer-Prevert) swing like hell."Born to Be Blue"(Mel Torme-Bob Wells) renders a great interpretation from Kelly on this age-old ballad,and during this whole session Wynton is provided ample space for some amazing solos.One of best trio recording,in my opinion,he ever made.Enjoy.
Health and Happiness.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Fantastic Wynton Kelly !, January 16, 2006

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Hugh D. Williams "Hugh" (Cornwall. G.B.) - See all my reviews
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I Heard a track of Wynton Kelly playing on Radio here in the U.K. and instantly fell in love with his playing. As one who loves jazz , especially piano jazz , he is a great new find for me . As For the review by "douglasnegley".. I am astounded that he can find any track Terrible . Clearly he has different taste to me ! I find them all so inventive and Wonderful . Cheers , Hugh