The Top Hat Trio

[wdave]

The other day I was downloading some Fred Astaire albums (off SpiralFrog) and inadvertently got "A Jazz Tribute to Fred Astaire" by The Top Hat Trio. I started to delete but decided to give it a listen first. Man, I'm glad I didn't delete - What a pleasant surprise. Very nice classical jazz. (Is that a genre?) Anyway, I googled them and only got 1 hit (to Amazon). The only other album they played on (that I found) was with Rose Lemmers. According to the write-up at Amazon, "Top Hat Trio is comprised of L.R. Smith, George Lee and Richard Mocny, well-known professional musicians in the Cleveland area, playing good classical jazz".
Does anybody know anything about these guys? Are they still together - any other recordings, etc.?
Dave

[Ed Fuqua]

That's not the line up you get when you google that record.

CD

Stephane Allard, violin, baritone violin
Marc Villemure, guitars
Daniel Lessard, bass

[wdave]

Thanks Ed. I googled "Top Hat Trio" and got http://www.amazon.com/Bloom-View-Ros...6958585&sr=1-1
Apparently, that's a different outfit. Yours is the correct info I believe.

[Ed Fuqua]

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