Everybody Digs Bill Evans

Artist: Bill Evans Trio
Label: Ojc
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 025218606820
EAN: 0025218606820
ASIN: B000000Y47

Release Date: 1991-07-01

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Tracks:

Minority
Young & Foolish
Lucky To Be Me
Night & Day
Epilogue
Tenderly
Peace Piece
What Is There To Say?
Oleo
Epilogue
Some Other Time (mono)

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Customer Reviews:

How shopping should be.......2006-02-22

Item was in mint condition as advertised. Shipped quickly too. A+++

One of Bill's finest works...........2003-11-24

I've listened to this CD many times, and it never fails to enthrall me. One of the things I love about Bill Evans is the care with which he seems to select each note. "Peace Piece" is still my favorite track, Bill seems to bare his soul on this one. Anyone interested in building a serious jazz collection would do well to start with this one. Go for the 20-bit remastered version, I have both versions, the 20-bit is cleaner.

A crossroads.......2003-03-10

This album reflects a crossroads in Bill's career. Bill had two current's flowing--his romantic style and his bop style. His prior album New Conceptions, which caused a stir, was almost a hard bop album. His lines at that point reflected Horace Silver's influence. Hard driving, mostly right hand extremely long lines; the ballads were somewhat arranged and not with his characteristic emotion. He knew he had more work to do (rec hiatus for almost 2 years)
With Everybody Digs however, Bill hit his stride. He had tempered and became more choice with his vocabulary-around this time he was a member of Miles Davis group. Oleo is a stunning effort. It is bop based, but it is a highly original take on it. None of his contemporaries were quite able to take the bebop idiom and loosen it up from Powell's reigns in terms of a new direction. This harder driving style on this record(a la All About Rosie/George Russell) as other reviewers commented seem to have been abandoned after the 50's. You see a little of it on Undercurrents on
Funny Valentine.
The ballads--lucky to be me, what is there to say. That ballad touch--so characteristic and identifiable was now permanently stamped to vinyl. And Peace, Peace is really a wild experiment with fantastic results. Bill could often be very tidy and preprogrammed but when he did odd things like this he really showed his unique depth. Another example of Bill's capricious and often humorous side can be seen on "With a Song in My Heart" from Empathy with Shelly Manne and Monty Budwig. Anybody interested in this period of bill's playing would be interested in checking out his work as a sideman with Dave Pike, Art Farmer, Charlie Mingus and Eddie Costa.

The Magic and the Power.......2003-02-10

There may be a temptation to pass up this album in favor of the more "characteristic" Bill Evans of the later trios beginning with Lafaro and Motian. With a relentlessly swinging, earthy, "straight-ahead," bop and soul-oriented supportive team of Sam Jones and Philly Joe, Bill might be expected to fall into their insistent groove, providing at best a neo-Bud Powell impersonation. But the opposite is closer to the final result: the Jones' boys come under the spell of Evans' romantic, lyrical individualism. At the same time, Bill's lines are etched in bolder relief than is the case on the recordings of the later, more impressionistic and democratic trios. Take, for instance, "Night and Day." First, Philly Joe's tap dancing rhythms reference the musician for whom the song was written (Fred Astaire), then Sam lays down an irresistible dance beat, then Bill becomes the dancer--alternating between being a graceful, composite Fred-Ginger and a dazzling soloist, executing several stunning breaks without benefit of help from either accompanist.

And so will you........2002-11-24

From the opening chords of Gigi Gryce's "Minority" you know that this is going to be a good album. During this 1958 session Evans clearly demonstrated why everybody was digging him. The trio includes Philly Joe Jones on drums and Sam Jones on bass, and it explores the whole range of Evans' talent from the explosively lyrical to modal invention. Bill Evans was simply a master of harmony and invention. "Minority" starts the disc off at a quick tempo. Evans turns out phrase after phrase supported by Philly Joe and Sam. Evans and Philly Joe trade breaks that demonstrate their inventiveness ending with a subtle duet. "Young and Foolish" exemplifies Evans' ballad style. His piano is heartbreakingly lyrical above Philly Joe's sensitive brush work. Evans' solo pieces are exquisite. In "Lucky to Be Me" his perfect sense of time, space, and harmony combine in a lyrical masterpiece. "Peace Peace" is a modal tone poem equal to anything Eric Satie composed--the clarity of bells, the stateliness of love. The trio spins Cole Porter's "Night and Day" into another world--some straight ahead, some Latin--as Evans redefines the song in varied rhythmic contexts. Evans' "Tenderly" swings lightly with Philly Joe and Sam laying down a firm support for his improvisation. Just listen to the harmony!! "What is There to Say?" does say a good deal between Evans' solo introduction and his evocative reinvention of the melody and subsequent commentary. Sonny Rollins' "Oleo" shows Evans capable of hard bop--without loss of life or lyricism. This could be Bud Powell, but it's Bill Evans swinging here--fresh, tight, and quick. The bonus track on this album is "Some Other Time" another ballad treatment that favors exquisite modal harmonies--lovely impressionistic lines. Obviously, I highly recommend this disc.

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