Affinity

Artist: Bill Evans , and Toots Theilemans
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 075992738729
EAN: 0075992738729
ASIN: B000002KK0

Release Date: 1990-10-25

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Tracks:

I Do It For Your Love
Sno' Peas
This Is All I Ask
The Days Of Wine And Roses
Jesus' Last Ballad
Tomato Kiss
The Other Side Of Midnight (Noelle's Theme)
Blue And Green
Body & Soul

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Customer Reviews:

Re Affirm.......2007-02-28

I was just out of high school, working in a Jazz Club a little bit, and mostly working in Maxwell's a resturantish- beer, naturalish, hang out in my town. I made sandwiches, waitressed, and painted lovely signs for the places. which I HOPE the boys(my bosses) appreciated, I really did fairly good sign work.
I was majoring in Art, English, Art ed. and something called 5 times the courses needed for graduation....easily.... and trying to figure out a myriad of life things when I bought this album. Impulsively picked for the piano in blue on the cover. Very good intuition always in my "in the moment" choices. Never regretted one impulsive buy or chance it decision until some reckoning the last few years but that's age related...when my touch was off and i over thought.Like the latest Peyroux-I didn't need that one. ( I hope I don't regret good picks as an admission should someone present evidence of forgotten blunders, I assert good instincts)

Anyway I hadn't thought of this music in so long. Tonight as I was reading something to consider in buying my son a harmonica I found myself in wandering thinking. Again. Recalling my own special affinity for a certain player-Toots- the album came back into my head. And here it is. Affinity. Again. This is the album that kept me company along with a Stevie Wonder, the Beatles, some Coltrane, Take Five and a box of oats in my first apartment.
I remember playing it in the fall and a friend or two over...I remember playing it when the students left town for homes in other areas as I was a town girl and still living there and working. I remember the guy downstairs tackling me and putting me in a headlock if I "continued to play it", but he wasn't too scary just tired of the sound. It's a beautiful sorrowful, sweet sound. Got to him, maybe not in the same way as myself but he was a Crosby, Stills, Nash guy. So I'm going to order it tonight and enjoy it recovering from a very serious pneumonia and the freezing feeling of our CA temperature dropped to 37.
"I Do It For Your Love" opens this album (from Paul Simon) the saddest song of a relationship and its memories and losses, that song was so wound around those days. And "Tomato Kiss" my favorite melody which was so different than the others, "Blue and Green", "Body and Soul"..beautiful songs. Evans is just so great to hear, he really is great to hear. I'm really looking forward to listening when this comes. I loaned my album and it never came back again like so many things lost to past days.

What I remember best is my apartment, the streets at night as I walked home at 2AM deserted, late. So it must have been music that stayed in your mind....because I surely didn't have an iPod notion in 78. And I'm sitting here with memory to write by. I did have a stereo and speakers then. And a quilt and a few glass sun catchers and a wall full of art. And my kitty Peaches. And the oats. Lost 30 pounds that year...and the album. Had the album, then gone. And a few other things here and there. In that town it was more than enough to have in those times when less was more and it was a kind of college experience that Toots seemed to capture so well. A place with gains and then eventually great losses. I like Chez Toots too. Another lost thought.

Two master melodists.......2006-06-16

Bill Evans had fur tipped fingers. Somehow, his playing was always softer and more mellow and melodic than any other jazz pianists of his time. Add to that the master of melody that Toots was, and you have a beautiful CD. It's not all soft and sweet, though. Both musicians could swing, too, and they swing a bit on this CD, too. A really nice jazz CD, with some really fine jazz musicians.

Evans and Theilemans - inspirational.......2004-07-03

Recorded in 1978 with the legendary jazz harmonica player and composer Toots Theilemans("Bluesette"), this album represents several "firsts" for Bill Evans. These are his first versions of Paul Simon's beautiful "I Do It For Your Love", and the standard "Days of Wine and Roses" (Not counting the "V.I.P Theme" muzak record)- -two tunes that stayed firmly in the trio's repertoire till the very end.

It is also the first Evans release to feature bassist extraordinaire Marc Johnson. This is an essential album -- and some of Evans' most inspired later-period playing. His use of the electric piano on some tracks blends beautifully with Toot's warm melodicism, egging Bill on to some stunning work as an accompanist and soloist -- and the two jazz masters are in rare form throughout. "Affinity" can also boast of one of the most fluid and creatively soulful recorded versions of the classic "Body and Soul" in all of jazz.

Theilemans later regarded the sessions for "Affinity" as his favorite!

Beautiful.......2003-06-13

Some really inspired keyboard playing as well as acoustic playing. I gave it 4 stars because of the saxophone player. He was mediocre...but as for the rest...c'est magnifique!

Toot Thielemans At His Best.......2002-02-14

Jazz harmonica master Jean "Toots" Thielemans has often cited this album as being his favorite performance. A quick listen will quickly reveal why Toots feels so strongly about this work.

Toots has been the undisputed grandmaster of Jazz harmonica since the 1950's, playing with just about everyone from Benny Goodman to stints with George Shearing, Quincy Jones and other reknowned Jazz giants. He pioneered Bee-Bop harmonica and can be heard on the soundtracks of movies from "The Pawnbroker" to "Midnight Cowboy" to "The Getaway" and more. He's recorded dozens of great albums as well as making guest appearances on hundreds of recordings.

Paired here with piano great Bill Evans, Toots plays with a mastery and sensitivity that I can only stand in awe of. Like a spring, notes pour out of Toots effortlessly, each hitting at exactly the right moment in the song. Technically, it is a masterpiece. Toots also shows the ability to know when to back off, letting the spaces speak for themselves. During those quiet moments he leaves you wanting to hear more. Every moment of this CD is a joy.

This recording is a monumental piece of Jazz and one the the greatest pieces of Jazz harmonica ever produced. I strongly recommend that you give this CD a whirl.

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