Practice Tape No.1

Practice Tape No.1

ASIN: B00004SYUP

Track Listings

1. These Things Called Changes

2. Walkin' Up

3. The Two Lonely People

4. Unnamed Composition

5. Only Child

6. "Nature Boy Like Tune"

7. "Pop-Type Tune"

8. Turn Out The Stars

9. Orbit

10. Voicings

11. Unnamed Waltz

12. Lover Man

13. Fly Me To The Moon (Howard) & Star Eyes (Raye)

14. The Art Of The Fugue (Bach)

15. Valse (Ogerman)

16. Pavane & Granados (Ogerman)

17. Prelude IV (Bach)

18. Prelude XVII (Bach)

19. Fugue XXIII (Bach)

20. Prelude XXIV (Bach)

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews
JazzTimes Magazine, Harvey Pekar
"Even in informal circumnstances without a bassist and drummer, Evans' time remains rock steady. Some of his work is rumanitive and impressionistic, some hard swinging."

Product Description
Legendary Jazz Pianist Bill Evans practicing in his New York City apartment in the 70s during two seperately recorded sessions. An absolute must have for collectors.

Practice Tape No.1

Tracks:

These Things Called Changes
Walkin' Up
The Two Lonely People
Unnamed Composition
Only Child
"Nature Boy Like Tune"
"Pop-Type Tune"
Turn Out The Stars
Orbit
Voicings
Unnamed Waltz
Lover Man
Fly Me To The Moon (Howard) & Star Eyes (Raye)
The Art Of The Fugue (Bach)
Valse (Ogerman)
Pavane & Granados (Ogerman)
Prelude IV (Bach)
Prelude XVII (Bach)
Fugue XXIII (Bach)
Prelude XXIV (Bach)
Medley: Mother Of Earl (Zindars), Fun Ride, Star Eyes (Raye), Short'n'Bread, Only Child

Album Description

Legendary Jazz Pianist Bill Evans practicing in his New York City apartment in the 70s during two seperately recorded sessions. An absolute must have for collectors.

Customer Reviews:

Practice Tape-The tittle says it all............2005-04-19

The fact that ends all debate about this CD is that it is from a tape of Bill Evans practicing. It has enormous value for a pianist who is studying jazz, piano, or Bill Evans' style, but not so much for anyone else. The best example of this is the 9th track on the CD "Orbit" where he plays a standard jazz harmonic cadence for about 8 minutes with several variations. It seems like he is trying to find the best ways to harmonize a particular tune and then how the voice the chords (I have heard that Thelonius Monk practiced in this same way for hours). I find this and many other tracks very intriguing because you can see that Evens spent so much time on harmony. This is about as valuable as a tape of J. S. Bach studying of Chopins'practice habits, but only to someone that plays music or has a deeper interest in an artists development. By the way, if any of Art Tatum, Charlie Parker or John Coletranes' children have tapes of them practicing I would love to have a copy!!!!

Show more respect to Bill........2003-04-06

Although the incomplete takes in this CD are all marvelous, this is what Bill Evans did not want to happen. Whenever his record was released, Bill carefully chose the best take of the songs which is appropriate for publication. Bill did not even put out many of the absolutely fine complete takes which he thought was not appropriate for publication according to his high standard. Bill was also notorious for his rejection to the recommendations of playing money making pop songs in 70s. Bill tried hard to preserve his high quality music throughout his career.

What his son did for money making here gravely put off Bill Evans. I am sobbing for poor Bill.

From The Producer, The Son.......2001-06-06

This album was a concept that I came up with in an attempt to preserve my father's archival material. I expect there to be really two ends of the spectrum with it critically and I already am seeing that here. You either despise it as a Bill Evans purist and wish that it never happened (even though it did in BE's own apartment none-the-less), or you praise it for every ounce of value that it has (and there is a lot there as other's will attest too one day.)

I didn't expect accolades for the album even though I put a lot of creativity into it. On May 5th, 2001 I accepted an award from the AFIM (Indie Grammies) for Best Cover Design of the Year 2000 releases. Wow. I was deeply honored, and mentioned my mentaur Lalo Schifrin in my speech who was in the audience in the Best Big Band album category. Lalo came over and congratulated us (me and my wife) after comin gback to the table.

So, on top of the album being of interest musically and archivally, you should also look at the design of the cover as a milestone in the Millenial year of CD releases. Unfortunately we missed the Grammy deadline for this category by 3 days last year and so we can never know how NARAS would have though of it, but we dream it would have been good. :-)

Caveat Emptor.......2001-02-17

Frankly, I think Evans the perfectionist would be mortified if he knew this was put out as a record, no matter how well intentioned. The sound quality is pretty awful, and the performances were clearly never meant to be heard outside the pianist's apartment.

Could be of value to other players attempting to get inside Evans' head and fingers; not for the casual listener, or even for the appreciator of what Evans might have been trying to preserve by not putting out performances this ragged.

Interesting Listen - Revealing!.......2001-01-04

A friendly, informal reminder of Bill Evan's thorough mastery of the piano. Liner notes state that he practised an average of 8 hours daily, and this is a recording of that. Most interesting listening: the Bach pieces -- performed very well. If you're a big Bill Evans fan, go ahead and purchase. I would recommend his other albums (most all of them) over this one, due to the high number of incomplete takes, and the consummate beauty of his studio & concert albums. So - 4 stars!

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