Paul Mitchell Trio

The Trio formed in 1960 and were the house band at Paschal's La Carrousel, Atlanta's first modern jazz club. The trio played there four years, opening for some of the biggest names in music including Ramsey Lewis, Aretha Franklin and Julian "Cannonball" Adderley In March, 1964 the Atlanta Playboy Club opened with the Paul Mitchell Trio in the Living Room. The trio played there for three years. It was at the Playboy club that Dante Stephensen saw the Paul Mitchell Trio and invited Mitchell to move to Dante's Down the Hatch before the restaurant/club before it opened, Dante's went on to become an institution in Atlanta and unique in the nation. The Trio is discussed and featured in the documentary made at the closing of Dante's and the retirement of it's owner Dante Stephenson.