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Berlin Jazz Piano Workshop 1965

Label: Impro-Jazz
Released: 2007
Track listing: Intro ; Memories Of You ; I've Got The World On A String ; Love; All Of Me; Django ; Cool Boogie; Beautifull Love; Free Improvisation ; Rosetta;

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Article: Profile

Orrin Keepnews' Collection

Read "Orrin Keepnews' Collection" reviewed by Marc Medwin


"Listen," Orrin Keepnews' no-nonsense delivery tempered by a smile. “I'm 84 years old. I'll take my legacies where I can get them," referring to the Keepnews Collection, a series launched this year by Concord Records. An astonishing study in longevity and ingenuity, the multiple facets and accomplishments of Keepnews' career as label maverick, writer ...

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Article: Album Review

Bill Evans Trio: Everybody Digs Bill Evans

Read "Everybody Digs Bill Evans" reviewed by Samuel Chell


This Keepnews Collection remaster/reissue of a 1958 recording is welcome if only as a reminder of Bill Evans' trio playing before the period of the celebrated Village Vanguard Sessions (Riverside, 1961). Instead of near-equal interaction by all three trio members, a supportive team of drummer Philly Joe Jones and bassist Sam Jones provides a non-intrusive backdrop ...

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Article: Film Review

Bill Evans: The Oslo Concerts

Read "Bill Evans: The Oslo Concerts" reviewed by Ernest Barteldes


Bill Evans The Oslo Concerts Shanachie 2007 On this DVD, we see two distinctive phases of pianist Bill Evans' career - the first a 1966 concert played at the Oslo Munch Museum in 1966 with bassist Eddie Gomez and drummer Alex Riel, filmed in black and white, followed ...

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Bill Evans: Emergence

Read "Emergence" reviewed by Nic Jones


Pianist Bill Evans has become one of the three pervasive influences on that instrument in these early years of the twenty-first century, along with Herbie Hancock and McCoy Tyner. This set gathers together some of his earliest records both as a sideman and a leader and, as such, plots the beginnings of a phenomenon. One of ...

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Article: Film Review

Bill Evans: The Oslo Concerts

Read "Bill Evans: The Oslo Concerts" reviewed by Samuel Chell


Bill Evans Trio The Oslo Concerts Shanachie Entertainment Corp. 2007 Arguably sharing with John Coltrane the distinction of being the primary shaper of the language of jazz over the past fifty years, Bill Evans was also a remarkably focused and consistent artist who paradoxically manifested different musical personae, ...

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Article: Album Review

Bill Evans and Bob Brookmeyer: The Ivory Hunters

Read "The Ivory Hunters" reviewed by Samuel Chell


Yes, that's Bob Brookmeyer the valve trombonist, and it's Bill Evans the pianist who, during the same year as this recording, would appear with Miles Davis on the fabled Kind of Blue session (Columbia, 1959). Some listeners will no doubt be familiar with the session, originally issued by United Artists under Brookmeyer's name and with the ...

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Conversations With Myself

Label: Birdology
Released: 2006

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The Last European Concert

Label: Birdology
Released: 2006


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