Cedar Walton trio / THE TRIO 3

This album, The Trio 3, comes from the third trio session on March 28. By the time of this recording the group had been playing together since 1983 and were able to bring to the table the kind of learned and intuitive responses to each other’s playing that contributed to the kind of mutual empathy that went a long way in helping produce the superior jazz performances we hear on this recording — the graceful invention of drummer Billy Higgins supporting and framing Walton’s playing and the powerful, swinging pulse of bassist David “Happy” Williams..