Jazz Articles about Bill Evans

Coleman Hawkins, Bill Evans Trio and Gene Ammons: JVC Audiophile Reissues

by AAJ Staff
January 1, 1998

COLEMAN HAWKINS Good Old Broadway (JVC)BILL EVANS TRIO At Shelly's Manne-Hole (JVC)GENE AMMONS Boss Tenor (JVC)

Fantasy has been pretty good about licensing titles it owns to labels that put out audiophile CDs, including DCC and JVC. The sound quality is superb on these three audiophile versions of titles that originally came out on Riverside and Prestige catalogues and are presently owned by Fantasy.

Toward the end of his life, Coleman Hawkins sunk into an emotional abyss and drank himself ...

Bill Evans: Conversations With Myself

by AAJ Staff
October 1, 1997

Technology and art have always had a tumultuous relationship at best. Advancements in technology have often been greeted by the artistic community by a split response: Some embrace the new technology and experiment with it, reaching out for new forms of expression that were impossible before; others shun the advances, dismissing them and those that use them as poor synthetic substitutions for “real" artistic struggle and creativity.

Today, a great deal of this controversy centers around the use of computers ...

Bill Evans & Jim Hall: Undercurrent

by David Cohen
June 1, 1997

If Undercurrent, the first and superior of two piano / guitar collaborations by Bill Evans and Jim Hall, (the other being Intermodulation produced four years later), were a book and not a record, then the blurbs on the back of the dust jacket might read: “Lush...beautiful...touching" “Filled with almost fugitive nuance and effortless interaction" “Perfection in spiritual and technical communication" Together, throughout the album, Evans and Hall sound like so much more ...