The only minus is Gene Lees' typically self-serving liner notes he always seems to love to write about himself. while this was not his favorite instrument, from playing it, he may have learned how to make the piano sing which became a hallmark of his style.8in the liner notes to bill evans: the complete riverside recordings, evans says especially, i want my music to singit must have that wonderful feeling of singing. Numbered Limited Edition Pressed At Quality Record Pressings. Nearly all of the performances on this box (which includes duets with bassist Eddie Gomez and singer Tony Bennett, trio outings with Gomez and either Marty Morell or Eliot Zigmund on drums, and a couple of quintet sets with the likes of tenors Harold Land and Warne Marsh, altoist Lee Konitz, guitarist Kenny Burrell, bassist Ray Brown, and drummer Philly Joe Jones) is available individually on CD but Bill Evans' more passionate collectors will certainly want this definitive box. Bill Evans Riverside Recordings 200g 45rpm 22LP Box Set Bill Evans. In addition, Evans' appearance on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz radio program is tacked on as a bonus and it is actually among McPartland's finest shows, a fascinating hour of discussion and music with Evans. The collection has all of the 98 selections recorded at Evans' 11 Fantasy sessions, including nine numbers from a previously unreleased 1976 concert with his trio. New York, December 28, 1959.Bill Evans' Fantasy recordings of 1973-1979 have often been underrated in favor of his earlier work but, as this remarkable nine-CD set continually shows, the influential pianist continued to grow as a musician through the years while holding on to his original conception and distinctive sound. Six tracks from "Portrait in Jazz" (featuring the same trio) have been added here as a bonus. LaFaro would die in a car accident just ten days later, at the age of 25. The Evans-LaFaro-Motian Trio would reach a climax with their Jclub recordings at the Village Vanguard in New York. Their first recording together had been the studio album Portrait in Jazz, taped on December 28, 1959, which marked Evans’ third album as a leader, following "New Jazz Conceptions" (1956) and Everybody Digs Bill Evans (1958). "Explorations" (Riverside RLP-351), recorded on February 2, 1961, was Bill Evans’ fourth LP as a leader and the second studio album by the pianist’s legendary trio with Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian.
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