I don\u2019t know what happened to bassist Geoffrey Sheppard or drummer David Keene, but 50 or so years ago, they were part of the Keith Emerson Trio and cut an acetate of seven songs in the living room of Emerson\u2019s boyhood home. They used one microphone machine and made four copies. Like thousands of teenage groups before and since, the acetates sat in closets and that should have been the end of it.<\/p>\n
We all know what happened to Keith Emerson. He formed the progressive rock band The Nice and then founded Emerson, Lake & Palmer, which continues to the present day. He is now recognized as one of rock music\u2019s iconic keyboardists.<\/p>\n
These early recordings recently resurfaced and now the seven songs have come to CD for the first time. They were never meant for release but serve the purpose of presenting the music and piano skills of Keith Emerson in their formative stages. Their primary value is historic and should please Emerson\u2019s and ELP\u2019s fan base.<\/p>\n
During 1963, Emerson was fronting a basic keyboard, bass, and drum trio. They worked various clubs and affairs to earn a little extra money and basically practiced in Emerson\u2019s living room. Their sound was a cross between light jazz and rock. <\/p>\n
Two Emerson compositions are included. \u201cWinkle Picker Stomp\u201d and \u201c56 Blues,\u201d the street number of Emerson\u2019s home, are early looks into the musical mind of an 18 year old learning his craft. The skills are present, but there is a structure present that he would quickly outgrow.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou Say You Care\u201d was discovered by the trio on a John Coltrane album. Emerson does his best at following the lines of this adopted jazz song. \u201cYou Came A Long Way From St. Louis\u201d finds Emerson channeling country pianist Floyd Cramer.\u00a0 \u201cTeenies Blues\u201d may be the album\u2019s best track as it shows Emerson at the beginning of his creative process. <\/p>\n
The self-titled Keith Emerson Trio <\/i>album is a release aimed at people who have appreciated his music, and the sound is quite good considering the source. It fills in an early gap in the career of a keyboardist who has been part of the musical landscape for half a century. Not great music, but it\u2019s certainly interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":32576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[9753],"rating":[5614],"class_list":["post-44340","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-keith-emerson-trio","rating-rating-c-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=44340"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=44340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}