Moving swiftly on in my education - Bill Evans?

The complete village vanguard box which cover the Sunday at the vv and waltz for debby

ordered

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# Audio CD (late 2009)
# Number of Discs: 1
# Format: Live
# Label: Gambit

Utterly peerless imho

PS-Check out carefully because there were / are a couple of wannabe 1974 live Paris releases which are not as good.

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1. Up With The Lark
2. Skidoo
3. Quiet Now
4. Twelve Toned Tune
5. Midnight Mood
6. Sugar Plum
7. If You Could See Me Now
8. Two Lonely People, The
9. Waltz For Debby
10. Goodbye

Gordon may be referring to these (as the other Paris show) and, although I enjoy them, be aware they were made from a French radio broadcast of this 1979 concert. (Note - I have not heard a recording of Bill Evans I did not like. An amazing artist.) The one Gordon posted is new to me, I shall be exploring further as well.

Jeff has hit the nail on the head!

I am recommending this

"Undercurrent", duets with Bill Evans and guitarist Jim Hall, remastered and reissued, I believe, by EMI (Blue Note) is a unique, unforgetable experience. An other unique and fascinating Bill Evans disc is "Conversations with Myself", Verve remastered edition, where Evans overdubs himself with 3 layers of piano. In addition to the Village Vanguard sessions, his other two releases with Scott LaFaro on bass, "Portrait in Jazz" and "Explorations", both remastered, are classics.

Almost anything is a safe bet - Trios, On Green Dolphin Street, Everybody Digs Bill Evans plus all the above mentioned are excellent and usually wonderful recordings too.

Don't see why everyone gets so excited about Jarret with such a wonderful back catalogue as Evans' to explore.......Just MHO of course.

Graeme

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Don't see why everyone gets so excited about Jarret with such a wonderful back catalogue as Evans' to explore.......Just MHO of course.

And Bill Evans doesn't grunt!

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Originally posted by Graeme Hutton:
Almost anything is a safe bet - Trios, On Green Dolphin Street, Everybody Digs Bill Evans plus all the above mentioned are excellent and usually wonderful recordings too.

Don't see why everyone gets so excited about Jarret with such a wonderful back catalogue as Evans' to explore.......Just MHO of course.

Graeme

I agree with you Graeme

Another fantastic Bill Evans Record

I have a couple of Bill Evans, but one or two is enough. I never tire of Miles, Monk, Mingus, Horace Silver, Lenny Tristano, and others from this classic era. But Bill Evans wears me out before long.

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Originally posted by Skip:
I have a couple of Bill Evans, but one or two is enough.

Which two Skip?

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Originally posted by Graeme Hutton:

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Originally posted by Skip:
I have a couple of Bill Evans, but one or two is enough.

Which two Skip?

Skip I can understand what you mean. I can understand why people like Bill but he does not float my jazz boat. I find his recordings somewhat old fashioned now and although he was pioneering at the time it all sounds to my taste rather stale now. However his work with Miles is superb.

Cheers folks

"Waltz for Debby" Early classic. Really good.



"Quintessence" Somebody's Stereophile R2D4. Late and ok.



"Tony Bennett and Bill Evans" My favorite.

I just have to reinforce that Sunday at the Village Vangard is an awesome session and recording. It really draws you in, like I wish more recording did. I have it on vinyl. The sad thing is that the bassist died shortly after it was made.

You must believe in spring...my record for the "island"
ralf

Evans' influence on jazz piano is hard to overestimate. Mingus once said that if Charlie Parker were a gunsligher, there would be a lot of dead copycats. Same thing applies to Evans. He and Bud Powell virtually defined modern jazz piano in my opinion. I suppose McCoy Tyner did too in his way, at least for a period of time, with unfortunate results.....

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Originally posted by alainbil:

Another fantastic Bill Evans Record

I also like this one:



You could also check Bill Evans out on one of the all time jazz classic discs, "Kind of Blue" as well as some of Miles Davis' earlier recordings.

Max

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Originally posted by Voltaire:

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# Audio CD (late 2009)
# Number of Discs: 1
# Format: Live
# Label: Gambit

Utterly peerless imho

PS-Check out carefully because there were / are a couple of wannabe 1974 live Paris releases which are not as good.

quote:

1. Up With The Lark
2. Skidoo
3. Quiet Now
4. Twelve Toned Tune
5. Midnight Mood
6. Sugar Plum
7. If You Could See Me Now
8. Two Lonely People, The
9. Waltz For Debby
10. Goodbye

Poor sound quality though....I'll try the Trio with Getz now, recorded in the Netherlands around the same dates.

(exits to put on Trio with Getz 'But Beautiful')........Much better!