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Music : The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961

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by: Bill Evans

: The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961

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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0025218444323
Format: Live, Original recording remastered
Label: Riverside
Manufacturer: Riverside
Number Of Discs: 3
Publisher: Riverside
Release Date: September 13, 2005
Sales Rank: 3034
Studio: Riverside

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Amazon.com:
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 Broomer

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- songs performed beautifully
This album comes with 3 CD's but there are at least 2 takes on each song. and at least 10 songs per CD. so i guess that runs down the list of songs it has. you will still enjoy the Evans trio, they don't disappoint. this album has Evans best moments, in my opinion. Evans explores the music so perfectly and to his style. the music they emit is so crisp and clean, i can easily listen to this album and any stress i might have just goes away.
Maybe the 'quality' of the recordings itself.. since ... Read More

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- simply stated, a timeless weekend captured in an intimate setting
First of all, I was blown away by the recording. The ambience of the audience only adds to the feeling that you are right there, front row, listening, watching three guys ripping it. This is truly one of the best live recordings I have heard, jazz or otherwise. The reperoire between the musicians seems almost telepathic, but the audience doesnt really appreciate the specialness of what they are hearing. They had no idea that less than a month later Scott Lefaro would be tragically killed in an auto ... Read More

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- Good but not Great
This is a very good sample of the Bill Evans trio at its best. Its interesting, enjoyable and mellow but it is not innovative. This set will impress fans of Dave Brubeck and mellow jazz but it will disappoint listners expecting "Kind of Blue" and John Coltrane style innovation.
If you like the mellow Bill Evans style I recommend his "Nirvana" set with Herbie Mann. I personally feel "Nirvana" is a more innovative recording of this style.

Rating:

- Don't assume you've heard it until now
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 ... Read More

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- No Bill like this Bill
I can give you a book full of reasons why, if you are into jazz, or into piano, or into music in general, you need to buy this set of recordings. Suffice to say, Bill Evans was the peak, the bee's knees, the top of the pole in his time, and this captures some of his brightest and best moments, all in one collection. Delightful tunes, both standards and not so, and alternate takes that shed light on the music making process and the insight that Bill brought to his music. You will read or hear about other ... Read More

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