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A Trio Remembered

In September, the jazz community was rocked by the near-simultaneous passings of pianists Harold Mabern, Larry Willis, and Richard Wyands. Each night during his week at the Village Vanguard that month, Barry Harris sang the original farewell ballad he has sung at the funerals of pianists since the death of Al Haig in 1982, this time dedicated to the late “trio.”

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