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Bill Evans: Consecration: The Final Recordings Part 2 [Box Set]
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by Samuel Chell
I had assumed that these recordings fit into the category of “he plays well under the circumstances." Forget the qualifiers. Listening to this set and the previously released The Last Waltz is a bit like sharing the experience of the wild-eyed poet who has returned from feasting on the milk of paradise in Coleridge's “Kubla Khan." ...
Three Classic Riverside Reissues
by Charlie B. Dahan
Three classic Riverside recordings have been recently reissued: Bill Evans' solo debut New Jazz Conceptions , Cannonball Adderley and Milt Jackson's Things Are Getting Better and Chet Baker's Chet Baker Plays The Best of Lerner and Loewe. While only the Adderley/Jackson and Evans' reissues contain bonus tracks, all three have been remastered using 20-bit K2 super ...
Tim Green: Catching Yourself Gracefully
by C. Michael Bailey
Pianist Tim Green new recording, Jeannie's Song, was recently featured in my Nights at the Turntable article, Origin Arts: The Tsunami from Seattle . Mr. Green is one of a growing number of young jazz musicians who are shaping jazz for the 21st century. His approach to jazz is through his bright and intelligent compositions, as ...
Bill Evans: You Must Believe In Spring
by Mark Corroto
Somewhere between the huge box sets of Bill Evans’ work on Verve, Riverside, Fantasy and his final works (and almost final live dates) lie some true gems. Romantics fall easily for the gritty sounds of Evans accompanying singer Tony Bennett from 1975 and his two Paris concerts from 1979, both released on Blue Note, which are ...
Bill Evans: Everything Happens To Me - A Musical Biography
by C. Michael Bailey
Everything Happens To Me Keith Shadwick Backbeat Books2002 ISBN 0-87930-708-0 Years before Brad Meldau thought to redefine the jazz piano trio, Bill Evans defined it in the first place. In piano jazz history, Bill Evans influenced every major pianist to come after him. Before Evans, influentially, only ...
Bill Evans, The Pianist as an Artist
by Kyle Simpler
The Pianist as an Artist Enrico Pieranunzi Continuum Books ISBN: 08264579672004Many professional musicians possess a great talent, but only a few achieve a level of true greatness. The legendary pianist, Bill Evans definitely fits into this second category. Evans left an indelible mark on the history of ...
Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings
by Larry Koenigsberg
Peter Pettinger Yale University Press New Haven 1998This is an exhaustive trawl through the work of Bill Evans, with characterizations of virtually every recorded track, whether created for posterity or bootlegged from a concert or broadcast. Evans’ work schedule gets a similar treatment, although the author implies that there are ...
Bill Evans: Getting Sentimental: Live at the Village Vanguard
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
Devotees of the immortal Bill Evans will jump at this bouquet of previously unreleased cuts, taped by fan Mike Harris at the Village Vanguard on January 15, 1978. During that week, Evans was trying out a different replacement for bassist Eddie Gomez each night, among them Rufus Reid and George Mraz. This recording was Michael Moore's ...
Bill Evans: Getting Sentimental
by Russell Moon
Getting Sentimental is a bootleg tape released with the permission of the Evans estate. Like the recordings of The Secret Sessions box, it was recorded without Evans' knowledge by a fan who was a regular customer of the Village Vanguard, in this particular case on January 15, 1978. Bassist Eddie Gomez had recently left Evans after ...
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