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Article: Extended Analysis

Paul Motian: Jack of Clubs

by Dan McClenaghan
December 31, 2013

As a drummer, Paul Motian (1931-2011) came to an early fame from his association with Bill Evans. It was the pianist's 1961 Riverside Records trio albums Waltz for Debby and Sunday at the Village Vanguard that did the trick, shifting the way of the piano trio into the direction of democracy and intricate interplay, also launching ...

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Blue in Green, The Best of the Early Years 1955 - 1960

By Bill Evans

Label: The Intense Media
Released: 2013
Track listing: Disc 1: Bill Evans - New Jazz Conceptions -1956; I Love You ; Five (Theme); I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) ; Conception; Easy Living; Displacement Speak Low; Waltz for Debby; Our Delight ; My Romance; Disc 2: Bill Evans - Everybody Digs Bill Evans - 1958; Minority; Young and Foolish; Lucky to Be Me; Night and Day; Tenderly; Peace Piece; What Is There to Say; Oleo; Epilogue; Disc 3: Bill Evans - Portrait in Jazz; Come Rain Or Come Shine; Autumn Leaves; Witchcraft When I Fall In Love; Peri's Scope; What Is This Thing Called Love; Spring Is Here; Someday My Prince Will Come; Blue In Green; Disc 4: Bob Brookmeyer & Bill Evans - The Ivory Hunters - 1959; Honeysuckle Rose; As Time Goes By; The Way You Look Tonight; It Could Happen To You; The Man I Love; I Got Rhythm; Disc 5: Charlie Mingus - East Coasting - 1957; Memories Of You; East Coasting; West Coast Ghos; Celia; Conversation; Fifty-First Street Blues; Disc 6: George Russell and his Orchestra - Jazz in the Space Age - 1960; Chromatic Universe, Pt. 1; Dimensions ; Chromatic Universe, Pt. 2; The Lydiot; Waltz From The Outer Space; Chromatic Universe, Pt. 3; Disc 7: Miles Davis - Kind of Blue - 1959; So What; Freddie Freeloader; Blue In Green; All Blues; Flamenco Sketches ; Disc 8: Art Farmer - Modern Art - 1958; Mox Nix; Fair Weather; Darn That Dream; The Touch Of Your Lips; Jubilation ; Like Someone In Love; I Love You; Cold Breeze; Disc 9: The Eddie Costa Quartet - 1958; Guys And Dolls; Adelaide ; If I Were A Bell; Luck Be A Lady; I've Never Been In Love Before; I'll Know; Disc 10: Lucy Reed - The Singing Reed - 1955; Inchworm ; My Love Is A Wanderer; Because We're Kids; It's All Right With Me; There's A Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon For New York; Lazy Afternoon; Flying Down To Rio; Little Girl Blue; Fools Fall In Love; Out Of This World; You May Not Love Me; My Time Of Day; Frank Minion - The Soft Land Of Make Believe - 1960; All Blues; Round Midnight; So What;

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Empathy + Pike's Peak

By Bill Evans

Label: Essential Jazz Classics
Released: 2013
Track listing: The Washington Twist; Danny Boy; Let's Go Back to the Waltz; With a Song in My Heart; Goodbye; I Believe in You; Why Not; In A Sentimental Mood; Vierd Blues; Besame Mucho; Wild Is The Wind; Goodbye[Quartet Version];

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Solo Piano At Carnegie Hall 1973-78

By Bill Evans

Label: Valmont Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Introduction By Billy Taylor; I Loves You Porgy; Hullo Bolinas; But Beautiful; You Must Believe In Spring; You Don't Know What Love Is; B Minor Waltz; All Of You; Reflections In D; Very Early; So What; Waltz For Debby; Like Someone In Love; Someday My Prince Will Come; Five (Theme);

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Bill Evans Best

By Bill Evans

Label: Universal Music
Released: 2013
Track listing: Autumn Leaves; Waltz For Debby; My Funny Valentine ; When You Wish Upon A Star; Alice In Wonderland ; You And The Night And The Music; Spartacus Love Theme; My Foolish Heart; Peace Piece; Little Lulu; ‘Round Midnight;

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Bill Evans Vol. 2 - Seven Classic Albums

By Bill Evans

Label: Reel To Reel Music Company
Released: 2013
Track listing: Disc 1 Tracks 1-6 Originally 'Sunday At The Village Vanguard' Riverside 1961 RLP-376; Gloria's Step; My Man's Gone Now; Solar; Alice In Wonderland; All Of You; Jade Visions; Disc 1 Tracks 7-12 Originally 'Undercurrent' United Artists 1962 UAJS 15003; My Funny Valentine; I Hear A Rhapsody; Dream Gypsy; Romain; Skating In Central Park; Darn That Dream; Disc 2 Tracks 1-8 Originally 'Moon Beams' Riverside 1962 RLP-428; Re: Person I Knew; Polka Dots And Moonbeams; I Fall In Love Too Easily; Stairway To The Stars; If You Could See Me Now; It Might As Well Be Spring; In Love In Vain; Very Early; Disc 2 Tracks 9-14 Originally 'Interplay' Riverside 1962 RLP-445; You And The Night And The Music; When You Wish Upon A Star; I'll Never Smile Again; Interplay; You Go To My Head; Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away); Disc 3 Tracks 1-6 Originally 'Empathy' Verve 1962 V6-8497; The Washington Twist; Danny Boy; Let's Go Back To The Waltz; With A Song In My Heart; Goodbye; I Believe In You; Disc 3 Tracks 7-11 Originally 'The Blues And The And Abstract Truth' (with Oliver Nelson) 1961; Stolen Moments; Hoe-Down; Cascades; Yearnin'; Butch And Butch; Teenie's Blues; Disc 4 Tracks 1-8 Originally 'Modern Art' (with Art Farmer) 1958; Mox Nix; Fair Weather; Darn That Dream; The Touch Of Your Lips; Jubilation; Like Someone In Love; I Love You; Cold Breeze;

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Undercurrent

By Bill Evans

Label: Not Now Music
Released: 2013
Track listing: My Funny Valentine; I Hear A Rhapsody; Dream Gypsy; Romain; Skating In Central Park; Darn That Dream; The Washington Twist; Danny Boy; Let's Go Back To The Waltz ; With A Song In My Heart; Goodbye; I Believe In You ;

News: Video / DVD

A Bill Evans Rehearsal

December 27, 2013

Rifftides reader Mike Harris (more about him later) alerts us to a little-known piece of video catching Bill Evans in rehearsal for a 1966 Danish television broadcast. The 21-minute sequence lets us see and hear Evans and his trio preparing pieces he frequently included in his playlists: “Very Early,” “Who Can I Turn To,” “If You ...

Article: Profile

Howard Riley: Live with Repertoire

by Duncan Heining
December 24, 2013

Pianist Howard Riley turned 70 in February and belatedly celebrates the event with the release of a new CD, Live with Repertoire (NoBusiness Records). It's a really strong live, solo set of standards and a few original tunes recorded last year in Leicester and one that emphasises one particular aspect of his playing. Riley remains one ...

News: Education

The Toughest High School Jazz Competition Goes National

December 16, 2013

Orlando, FL - “It’s the only talent competition of its kind in North America,” Jeff Rupert, Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Central Florida (UCF) said Monday. Five* of the nation’s best high school age Jazz musicians will come to Orlando in March, 2014, to perform with the UCF All-Star High School Jazztet, that ...