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Bill Evans / Chet Baker / Sonny Stitt: Cold Case Investigations Strike Gold
by Chris May
Jazz detective Zev Feldman and Elemental Records have notched up more cold-case discoveries with albums by Bill Evans, Chet Baker and Sonny Stitt. The discs are scheduled for release in late April 2023, round about Record Store Day. None of the material has previously been available. All three albums are more than good and the Evans and the Baker are blinders. Evans' Treasures: Solo, Trio & Orchestra Recordings From Denmark 1965-1969 is being released on 2-CD and ...
Continue ReadingBill Evans: You Must Believe In Spring (Hybrid SACD)
by Doug Collette
The quietude with which “B Minor Waltz (For Ellaine)" opens You Must Believe In Spring belies the hearty homage this release constitutes in recognition of the title's forty-fifth anniversary. As a means of righteous and deserving tribute to his seventieth studio album, the late Bill Evans' debut for the Warner Bros. label is enhanced in a number of ways. First and foremost is the sonic upgrade for hybrid-SACD (as well as the vinyl LP configuration). Using the Plangent ...
Continue ReadingMiles And Bill And Some New Releases
by Bob Osborne
On this show all new releases from Evan Drybread, John Zorn with Bill Laswell, Stefan Orins Trio, Toni Mora Quartet, Tony Malaby with Angelica Sanchez & Tom Rainey, Brandee Younger, High Pulp, Oded Tzur, Florian Hoefner Trio, and Mary Halvorson. There is also look back at the work of the Bill Evans Trio and Miles Davis' Bags Groove recordings.Playlist Show Intro 00:00 Evan Drybread “Blackball" from Tiger Tail (Self Released) 00:50 John Zorn, Bill Laswell “Brion Gysin" from ...
Continue ReadingBill Evans: Behind The Dikes – The 1969 Netherlands Recordings
by Stefano Merighi
Gli inediti di Bill Evans cominciano a tracimare in questi anni. E se qualcuno si chiedesse se valga la pena ascoltare anche questo recente Behind the Dikes (doppio CD che documenta concerti in studio in Olanda nel 1969), risponderei di andare subito alla versione di “'Round Midnight" per dissipare ogni dubbio. Evans trasfigura il classico monkiano, modificandone il carattere delle singole sezioni, e lo fa proprio in una inedita fluidità di esecuzione, offrendo una straordinaria vetrina al basso di Eddie ...
Continue ReadingTwo Bill Evans Record Store Day Releases
by Mark Corroto
Morning Glory: The 1973 Concert At The Teatro Gran Rex, Buenos Aires and Inner Spirit: The 1979 Concert at the Teatro General San Martín, Buenos Aires (Resonance Records), never officially released before, were both recorded in Buenos Aires, six years apart. Bill Evans, who many a critic would claim to be the most significant pianist of the 20th century, would be dead within a year of the second of the two concerts heard here. We certainly must recognize the detective ...
Continue ReadingBill Evans in Buenos Aires: Two From Resonance
by Troy Dostert
Few pianists in jazz have been recorded as copiously as Bill Evans, with a discography that grows seemingly by the year, and with no signs of stopping. At least that's the impression one gets thanks in large part to Resonance Records, which has now released seven Evans albums since 2012's Live at Art D'Lugoff's Top of the Gate. The most recent are this pair recorded six years apart in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with two of Evans' iconic trios. With Resonance's ...
Continue ReadingBill Evans: Inner Spirit
by Jim Worsley
Tension-filled Buenos Aires seemed to bring the best out of Bill Evans. This 1979 live performance at the Teatro General San Martin is as energized as the Argentinian city was polarized. Six years earlier, Evans had played the city in trio with bassist Eddie Gomez and drummer Marty Morell, amidst dangerous political terror. The trio was immune to the chaos and was treated with respect, if not jubilation, at the prospect of hearing them perform. That performance, captured on Morning ...
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