Music CD - Bill Evans Trio: Portrait in Jazz

	Music CD: Portrait in Jazz Artist: Bill Evans Trio List Price: $11.98 Our Price: $7.58 Your Save: $ 4.40 ( 37% ) Availability: Usually ships in 6 to 10 days Manufacturer: Ojc
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Tracks: 1. Come Rain Or Come Shine 2. Autumn Leaves 3. Autumn Leaves (Mono) 4. Witchcraft 5. When I Fall In Love 6. Peri's Scope 7. What Is This Thing Called Love 8. Spring Is Here 9. Someday My Prince Will Come 10. Blue In Green (take 3) 11. Blue In Green (take 2)
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0025218608824 Label: Ojc Manufacturer: Ojc Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Ojc Release Date: 1991-07-01 Studio: Ojc
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Beyond category Comment: Most of Bill Evans' work is great and timeless. Much of it, like this record, transcends jazz or any other stylistic category. It is simply gorgeous, intelligent music. As some writers have said, he seemed to distill beauty and nostalgia out of thin air. Customer Rating: Summary: Desert island, here we come Comment: This is, for me, the quintessential Bill Evans album. Bill's trio finally had settled into their groove, and man, could they swing! This has lots of classic jazz standards and despite being recorded in the early days of stereo, the sound is terrific. If you need to delve deeper into what Bill was doing at the time, The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961 is a must buy companion, but this album a cornerstone of any serious jazz collection. Customer Rating: Summary: Wow! Comment: This is my seventh Evans recording and it is like I am getting to know him all over again. This album has energy, freshness and joy that just isn't there on later recordings. The recording quality is more than satisfactory. The group's playing is smart and engaging with a skillful balance between technical skill and understated musicality. The playfulness brought to standards like Witchcraft is a welcome contrast to many of his later more brooding works. LaFaro and Motian provide their legendary support and interplay with their typcial flair. This was definitely a high point for Evans, before drugs, bad health and personal problems got in the way. No Evans collection would be complete without this recording. Customer Rating: Summary: Expressive playing! Comment: The artistic greatness of Bill Evans resides in his spelling treatment of the piano. He not only plays the keyboard; he plays with the instrument and certainly he would seem to establish with it a sort of spiritual connection making of it an extension this inner thoughts and moods. That's why there have been so many versions about his compositions and however, just a few have been able to perform and express with such kind of feeling and inspiration the core of his compositions. This is at least to my view, the main reason I recognize in him the essence of the genius. As Midas King all what he played it was pure gold. Customer Rating: Summary: another evans album you should have. Comment: bill evans is perhaps the most satisfying piano player to get into my ears. the lyrical beauty of his playing is magical for late nights spent reading and listening to music. "the village vanguard recordings" are my favorite bill evans, but this comes up a close second. buy with confidence if you love music steeped in beauty. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: Lyric and thoughtful, pianist Bill Evans proved an urbane bridge between the early bop style of Bud Powell and playful funk of Horace Silver, and the later, modern approach of pianists like Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, and Keith Jarrett (indeed, Jarrett went as far as to record with Evans's backup band of drummer Paul Motian and bassist Gary Peacock). Evans's second album as a leader, Portrait in Jazz combines a pair of originals--"Blue in Green" and "Peri's Scope"--with a handful of show tunes and standards, including a version of "Someday My Prince Will Come" that pre-dates Miles Davis's adaptation. With a preference for irregular phrasing and a taste for unusual chord spellings, Evans was frequently able to recast old chestnuts and tired warhorses into new gems and spirited charges, as he does here with "Witchcraft," "Spring Is Here," and "When I Fall in Love." And although he recorded in many different formats throughout his career, including duets with himself, the power and beauty of Evans's trios helped him lay a special claim to that grouping. --Fred Goodman