Richard Brody writes about the pianist Charles Bell, who became a pioneer of modern jazz despite recording only three complete albums.
There’s not much information out there about Bell. He was born in Pittsburgh in 1933 and died in 2012. Classically trained , he started playing jazz at the age of twenty, fusing his interest in composition with his interest in improvisation. In May, 1960, he led a quartet at Georgetown University’s Intercollegiate Jazz Festival; along with Blairman on drums , Bell was joined by the guitarist Bill Smith and the bassist Frank Traficante.
Of the album’s eight tracks, Bell composed only one of them, alongside one by the trio’s bassist, Thomas Sewell; a pair of standards ; and four modern-jazz classics: Miles Davis’s “Prancing,” Nat Adderley’s “Work Song,” Paul Desmond’s “Take Five,” and “Whisper Not,” by Benny Golson . Bell has the frontline solo time to himself. His transformations of familiar tunes spotlight the singularity of his ideas, and the concert setting adds energy.
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