Jazz trio
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A jazz trio is a group of three jazz musicians, often a piano trio comprising a pianist, a double bass player and a drummer. Jazz trios are commonly named after their leader, such as the Bill Evans Tr
A jazz trio playing in a community garden.
Organ trio
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An organ trio is a form of jazz ensemble consisting of three musicians: a Hammond organ player, a drummer, and either a jazz guitarist or a saxophonist. In some cases the saxophonist will join a trio
Jazz trio
…Peterson. Tristano, Jamal, Guaraldi, and Peterson all later led trios with the traditional format of piano, bass, and drums. Another variant is the organ trio, comprising electric organ (typically a Hammond B-3), drums, and usually electric guitar. The bassist is excluded, and the organist instead plays the…
Jazz organist Jimmy Smith at a show in Italy in 1994; the sax and drumkit of the other trio members can be seen in this picture.
Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto 1978
Jazz organist Joey Defrancesco, pictured here in 2002, has recorded albums that recapture the "old school" organ trio sound of the 1960s.
The Medeski, Martin and Wood organ trio demonstrates that an organ trio can come in different varieties; in place of a sax or electric guitarist, this band has an upright bass player as the third member.