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Rusty Viliite, bass, Erfcm Eianii, piano, and Albert Ecmeto, drams: Hie Culvert Street Jazz Trio
disproves the old nxiera that those who cant do, teach.
Calvert Street Trio
promotes live music
By Mary C. Reilly
A group that plays the music it wants, the way it
wants, for people that want to listen is unique in
today's age.
However, that is precisely the philosophy of the
Calvert Street Trio, a three-piece jazz ensemble at
UNL. V,
Three professors in the UNL School of Music,
Brian Mann on piano, Albert Rometo on percussion
and Rusty White on bass form the group.
Among other functions, the trio serves as a
recruiting tool for the UNL School of Music, White
said. "We play primarily in a concert situation."
"We perform to keep jazz alive, to make music and
to share it with other people," Mann said.
The group is more an education-institutional
organization than a money-making organization,
Mann said.
"We love playing jazz and we get a kick out of it.
Jazz is rewarding and demanding to play," Mann
said. -
The trio was created to play live music for people,
Rometo said, "to enable us to do things we weren't
able to do enough of under other circumstances."
"We wanted to promote live music as preferable to
listening to the stereo. It's more spontaneous, less
predictable," Mann said.
Basically, the trio plays two categories of jazz
material: popular American standards and jazz
instrumentals, Mann said. They are the "bread and
butter" for jazz musicians, he said. The instrumen
tals are written and perfomred by jazz groups.
Jazz musicians love to turn to popular American
songs of the '40s and '50s and play them in jazz style.
These songs are part of the musical culture of peo
ple over 30, Mann said.
In addition the Calvert Street Trio plays trans
criptions of classical pieces in a jazz style.
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