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Jim Witzel Quartet: Very Early (Remembering Bill Evans)

Read "Very Early (Remembering Bill Evans)" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
April 6, 2026

Very Early, a warmhearted tribute to the late great pianist Bill Evans, is led not by a pianist but by a guitarist, San Francisco-based Jim Witzel, an Evans admirer since his introduction to the pianist's singular music on Evans' 1961 album, Live at the Village Vanguard. There is a pianist on this tasteful quartet ...

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Very Early (Remembering Bill Evans)

By Jim Witzel

Label: Joplin & Sweeney
Released: 2025
Track listing: Beautiful Love; How My Heart Sings; Falling Grace; Solar; Very Early; Israel; Some Other Time; Nardis; Peri’s Scope.

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Jim Witzel Quartet: Very Early (Remembering Bill Evans)

Read "Very Early (Remembering Bill Evans)" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
October 13, 2025

Guitarist Jim Witzel's Very Early (Remembering Bill Evans) serves as both a heartfelt homage and a poetic reinterpretation of the pianist's timeless work. Joined by pianist Phil Aaron, bassist Dan Feiszli, and drummer Jason Lewis, Witzel approaches this project with the qualities that define Evans' artistry: lyricism, subtle interplay, and harmonic sophistication, all while maintaining his ...

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Jim Witzel Quartet: Very Early (Remembering Bill Evans)

Read "Very Early (Remembering Bill Evans)" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert
September 6, 2025

While tributes to pianist Bill Evans have certainly not been in short supply over the years, he has unsurprisingly been given far more attention by pianists than from other instrumentalists. Efforts from guitarists have been particularly rare. There are some noteworthy exceptions: John McLaughlin took a stab at it in 1993 with Time Remembered (Verve) alongside ...