Bill Evans - The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961
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Artist: Bill EvansEdition: Music CD
Format: Live, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2005-09-13
Music Label: Riverside
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Spoken Introduction
- Gloria's Step (Take 1, Interupted)(First U.S. Release)
- Alice In Wonderland
- My Foolish Heart
- All Of You (Take 1)
- Announcement And Intermission
- My Romance (Take 1)
- Some Other Time
- Solar
- Gloria's Step (Take 2)
- My Man's Gone Now
- All Of You (Take 2)
- Detour Ahead (Take 1)
- Discussion Repertoire
- Waltz For Debby (Take 1)
- Alice In Wonderland (Take 2)
- Porgy (I Loves You, Porgy)
- My Romance (Take 2)
- Milestones
- Detour Ahead (Take 2)
- Gloria's Step (Take3)
- Waltz For Debby (Take 2)
- All Of You (Take 3)
- Jade Visions (Take 1)
- Jade Visions (Take 2)
- ...A Few Final Bars
Free Music Notes for The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961
Free Music Review: Don't assume you've heard it until now
Hit: 5 Stars
Even though I had the two original Riverside LP's and two later CD's purporting to contain remastered essentials from the session, Amazon's price for the latest three-disc collection was too attractive to pass up. After listening to the three discs in sequence, I now question if I even heard what was on the previous recordings. This is at once stunning and immeasurably satisfying music, LaFaro and Evans "in the moment" as never before, their empathy, individual genius, and shared quest of discovery brought to vivid realization for the listener. Not until his final trio with bassist Marc Johnson would the pianist again approach such a level of artistry, but there would be no possibility of a return to the moment of incipient splendor. This may be the greatest value on Amazon, but there's no way to put a price on the music herein. Even if you've limited or stopped purchasing the endangered CD (now apparently going the way of the LP), this one had better be the exception. Forget the download. Both you and Bill deserve better.
WARNING (read the directions): Shortly into the first track, "Gloria's Step," there's an audio drop-out that sounds like some flawed CDs that I've purchased. I requested a replacement from Amazon before reading the enclosed booklet. The one-second gap of silence is a technical glitch or power failure with the Ampex tape recorder, captured just as it transpired (or momentarily expired) on that Sunday afternoon, June 25, 1961.
Warning #2: Listen to "All of You," Take 1 (which moreover was rejected!). Comparing it to Jarrett's version will only convince you that jazz piano has regressed over the past 30 years. Same with Mehldau, or just about any new pianist, however "original." Bill was sui generis. He can become old, at times stale, during the vast "middle period." But on these sets (and anything pre-1961) as well as his last 18 months (1979-80), his music can be more inexhaustibly satisfying than 2000 of my best CDs. In fact, no other artist's music is required (though I guess I would miss Diz, Stitt, and Hank Mobley).
The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961 Poster
Bill Evans, with virtuoso bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian, reinvented the jazz piano trio, creating stunning contrapuntal dialogues that merged luminous lyricism with layers of complex, elusive harmonies, its moments of limpid beauty suddenly giving way to surging rhythms. The trio's finest recorded moments, these performances were captured just 10 days before LaFaro's death in a car accident. The original releases--Sunday at the Village Vanguard and Waltz for Debby--are celebrated masterpieces. This three-CD set is a brilliant reissue--almost a revision--of that material, with superb sound from the newly remastered original tapes and all of the music presented in the sequence of the original five sets, adding a previously unissued take of "Gloria's Step," spoken introductions, and the band's incidental conversation. For those who know this music, it's a chance to hear it in a fresh way; for new listeners, it will come as a revelation at a bargain price. --Stuart BroomerJazz Music CDs
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