The Train and the River
Context
Composition by Giuffre played as a trio without drums, with Jim Hall and Ralph Peña, on the first album by the Jimmy Giuffre 3 (Atlantic). The trio reprised it on the show The Sound of Jazz in 1957 and in the film Jazz on a Summer's Day, shot at Newport in 1958.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to West Coast, Cool (Birth of the Cool). Among the origins and influences of West Coast: Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's), Cool (Birth of the Cool), Bossa nova, jazz samba.