The 3 Sounds
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The Three Sounds | |
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| Birth name | The Three Sounds |
| Genres | Soul jazz Hard bop Post-bop |
| Members | Gene Harris Andrew Simpkins Bill Dowdy |
The Three Sounds (also known as The 3 Sounds) were an American jazz piano trio that formed in 1956 and disbanded in 1973.
The band formed in Benton Harbor, Michigan, United States, as the Four Sounds. The original line-up consisted of Gene Harris on piano, Andrew Simpkins on double bass and Bill Dowdy on drums, along with saxophonist Lonnie “The Sound” Walker, who dropped out the following year. The group moved to Washington and then New York, where, as the Three Sounds, they cut a record for Riverside Records, before signing an exclusive contract with Blue Note.
Between 1958 and 1962, the group released nine albums for Blue Note. They toured nationally during this period, building a large following in jazz clubs across the country. The trio played and recorded with the likes of saxophonists Lester Young, Lou Donaldson, Stanley Turrentine and Sonny Stitt, cornet player Nat Adderley, singer Anita O'Day, and guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli, among others.
Samples in hip hop
The Three Sounds song "Put On Train", from the 1971 Gene Harris album The 3 Sounds was featured as the prominent background sample in the hip-hop group Beastie Boys song "What Comes Around" on their 1989 album Paul's Boutique.[1] It previously stated here that this sample came from the Three Sounds album Live at the It Club, recorded in 1970, however this was not released (on Live at the It Club Vol. 2) until 2000.
Discography[2]
- 1958: Introducing the 3 Sounds (Blue Note)
- 1958: Introducing the 3 Sounds Vol. 2 (Blue Note)
- 1958: Branching Out (Blue Note) with Nat Adderley
- 1959: Bottoms Up! (Blue Note)
- 1959: LD + 3 (Blue Note) with Lou Donaldson
- 1959: Good Deal (Blue Note)
- 1960: Moods (Blue Note)
- 1960: Feelin' Good (Blue Note)
- 1960: It Just Got to Be (Blue Note)
- 1960: Blue Hour (Blue Note) with Stanley Turrentine
- 1961: Here We Come (Blue Note)
- 1961: Hey There (Blue Note)
- 1961: Babe's Blues (Blue Note)
- 1962: Out of This World (Blue Note)
- 1962: Black Orchid (Blue Note)
- 1959/62: Standards (Blue Note) released 1998
- 1962: Blue Genes (Verve)
- 1963: Anita O'Day & the Three Sounds (Verve) with Anita O'Day
- 1963: The Three Sounds Play Jazz on Broadway (Mercury)
- 1963: Some Like It Modern (Mercury)
- 1964: Live at the Living Room (Mercury)
- 1964: Three Moods (Limelight)
- 1965: Beautiful Friendship (Limelight)
- 1966: Today's Sounds (Limelight)
- 1966: Vibrations (Blue Note)
- 1967: Live at the Lighthouse (Blue Note)
- 1968: Coldwater Flat (Blue Note)
- 1968: Elegant Soul (Blue Note)
- 1969: Soul Symphony (Blue Note)
- 1970: Live at the 'It Club' (Blue Note) - released 1996
- 1970: Live at the 'It Club' Volume 2 (Blue Note) - released 1996
- 1971: The 3 Sounds (Blue Note) - Gene Harris album
References
- ^ Benjamin, Brad. "What Comes Around — Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique Samples and References List". Paulsboutique.info. Retrieved 2 May 2017.
- ^ The Three Sounds Catalog - album index accessed January 25, 2018
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