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Music : The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961
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The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961 by: Bill Evans List Price: $29.98 CD-Charts Price: $18.97 You Save: $11.01 (37%)Prices subject to change. |
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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 Studio: Riverside Sales Rank: 1470 MPN: 4443 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: 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
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 Rating: - Don't assume you've heard it until nowEven 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 ... Read More: Rating: - No Bill like this BillI 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 jazz pianists who are billed as "the next Bill Evans", or who are "as good as Bill Evans", but whatever, number one: don't believe it, and number two: buy and listen to this set to see what "they" are talking about. This is a wonderful piece of ... Read More: Rating: - Yep, it's THAT good...Occasionally I read a review on Amazon and then order the item - and wonder what planet the people who gave it high marks are living on. Not so for this gem. This is the REAL DEAL. Others have been far more eloquent than I could ever hope to be in explaining WHY it's so good. Let me simply say this: I've got a half a gazillion jazz recordings and this rates right up there with the very best of them. It's just really good music, really well recorded. And, at this price, it's a truly great deal as well. You won't be disappointed. Rating: - The quintessential trio at their peakJazz piano heaven. This is the long-awaited full day of music from all the various Village Vanguard releases over the years. Every note is here, as well as some between songs chatter. The various takes of various songs add up to a master class in piano and bass improvising; LaFaro died shortly after this day and Evans was never the same. Thankfully, we have this sublime music from their unique interplay at its apex. This is a great buy; over two and a half hours of transcendent jazz in perfectly remastered sound for twenty bucks (and you can then burn all the music onto two cds, it just fits; you'll never get angry during rush hour again with this music playing). It truly sounds fabulous, much finer than the earlier cds of this material, ... Read More: Rating: - This is incredible!This has become one of my favorite jazz recordings. I never heard the original vinyl, but, even if there was extensive processing and restoration, here, you won't believe the quality of this recording. Kudos to the original engineers. With that out of the way, Bill Evans is impeccable, and I'd never heard of Scott LaFaro (on bass), but he really rocks here. I could (and do) listen to this set over and over again. Six stars! |
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