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The Great Jazz Trio: 'S Wonderful
by John Kelman
It's hard to believe that when he inaugurated the Great Jazz Trio in the mid-1970s, pianist Hank Jones was approaching sixty. At that point he'd already built a long, prestigious career working with virtually every significant mainstream jazz artist to emerge since the late 1930s. It's even more remarkable that, thirty years later, not only is Jones still going strong--with a recording and touring schedule that would wither those a quarter his age--but he manages to retain a certain identity ...
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