Jazz Articles about Trio 65 1/2

Trio 65 1/2: 66 67

by Chris Mosey
November 9, 2017

The somber shade of Bill Evans hovers over this album, recorded 1966-67, by three of his fans, Danish musicians, Kenneth Knudsen (keyboards), Ib Lund Nielsen (bass) and Ole Streenberg (drums), who went under the collective moniker Trio 65 ½. This title, coined by drummer Streenberg, is a play on the title of Evans' 1964 Verve album, Trio 64. So did these young, inexperienced Danes really think they were 1½ times better than the peerless Bill? Probably not. ...