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Summary: A PLEASANT SUPRISE!!!!
Comment: Sunday at the Village Vanguard is not the first Bill Evans album you should buy because its a bit too expressive or experimental to listen. This is far more easier on the ears and memorable. My drive to work is smooth thanks to this gifted artists' composition. I plan to collect his other albums in the near future.
If your a fan of McCoy Tyner's Night Ballads or Oscar Peterson's Timeless then I guarantee this should be a fine addition.
I would like to thank all working at Amazon for helping us newbies listen to jazz tracks before making a purchase and exploring similar items in your selection menus. Thank You!
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Summary: A higher plane
Comment: This review is a tribute, because sometimes that's necessary, one owes it. Feeling depressed? Lonely? Lost? Play this CD over and over, and it will take you to a place, where I'm not sure, but like a center within, I know this sounds corny, but to feel this is completely different, like some kind of eternal safety, the kind of stuff mystics might speak of, but this music is no mere theorizing, but an actual path you can get on, or enter so to speak, it's the antithesis of the vapidity of so much modern media and TV, he's taking you by the hand to your higher plane, and making sure you get a good seat there, that you can rest there. This is what it feels like to listen to this music, great art as friendship, the untying of knots, so it's best just to say : WOW! and thanks too...
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Summary: The Shape of Things to Come
Comment: Of the early Evans albums (through Waltz for Debbie), this is by far the most quiet and introspective. While the definitive Evans trio was playful and upbeat on Portrait, they went to the other extreme here. Frankly, I love upbeat music, but I find that Evans' subdued works stand up better to repeated listening. It was here that Evans really mastered the power of empty spaces that he used so well at the Village Vanguard. This is the mark of a matured musician, one who is not afraid to leave some notes unplayed. As a happy side effect, this music also sits well in the background when other things are going on, but stopping there would be a real waste. Let it draw you in and you will be rewarded.
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Summary: bill evans and scott lafaro were magic together.
Comment: believe me, if you are a jazz fan, you want all the recordings of bill evans that feature scott lafaro on bass. the chemistry between evans & lafaro was really something special in the world of jazz. they played off each other & complimented one another in an improvisational setting that was their own musical world. and we get to listen in. lucky us. "explorations" is a piano trio jazz classic. nothing less.
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Summary: Three as One- Evans at his very best
Comment: This trio was something special.There modus operandi was to create 'one voice',(all three collaborating as one),and they pulled it off.Lafaro,Motion, and Evans had their own 'sound'.The unit is so tight and the complimenting of ideas back and forth with an uncanny 'sixth sense'throughout this CD that you're scratching your head,and saying to yourself ,you gotta be kiddin' me man.This set is a hallmark in the piano trio music genre,it carries us to the highest level one can possibly reach in the 'trio format'..Evans has all his tools in exquisite order,from the exceptional melodic invention,to his signature harmonic approach, and with the visionary support from Lafaro and Motian,it does'nt get much better than this.And we must realize these guys are bringing a second life to old standards that are presented here.Charlie Parker tradition,give the old standard's some new definition!It's difficult to describe the magnitude of substance and noteworthiness in this set,in words.Just let your ears do the work.This is Evans at the highest level.That's saying quite alot considering were speaking of Bill Evans.
Enjoy.This is a gem,and 'PORTRAITS IN JAZZ',is the sister ship to this album.
brian
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![Explorations. Bill Evans Trio Tracks: Israel, Haunted Heart, Beautiful Love [Take 2], Beautiful Love [Take 1][*], Elsa, Nardis, How Deep Is the Ocean?, I Wish I Knew, Sweet and Lovely, Boy Next Door [*]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41KZ332YZ3L._SL160_.jpg)
