Wynton Kelly - drumless trio with Kenny Burrell and Paul Chambers

Strong Man 0:00 Ill Wind 5:16 Don’t Explain 9:39 You Can’t Get Away 15:14 Wynton Kelly (Riverside RLP 12-254) (1958) Recorded in NYC, Jan. 31, 1958 Wynton Kelly (p), Kenny Burrell (g), Paul Chambers (b) Two of the trio tunes were brought to Wynton’s attention when he and Paul Chambers worked with an all-star quintet backing Abbey Lincoln (RLP 12-251): Strong Man, a moody new tune that sounds as if it ought to become a jazz standard; and Billie Holiday’s Don’t Explain (which, incidentally, Wynton has not recorded on piano before: he played bass on a pianoless version in Abbey’s album). Ill Wind is a plaintive, relatively neglected Harold Arlen strain. The fourth item is named in honor of the assumption that somehow You Can’t Get Away from playing a blues on just about every LP.