Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival

Artist: Bill Evans
Label: Polygram Records
Category: Music

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Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 731453975828
EAN: 0731453975828
ASIN: B0000069NC

Release Date: 1998-03-24

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Tracks:

Spoken Introduction
One For Helen
A Sleepin' Bee
Mother Of Earl
Nardis
Quiet Now
I Loves You, Porgy
The Touch Of Your Lips
Embraceable You
Someday My Prince Will Come
Walkin' Up

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Customer Reviews:

Plenty to Like Here, A Few Warts.......2006-12-31

Bill Evans plays with some real firepower on this CD, then lays back into some sweet ballads. The quick, aggressive playing of Eddie Gomez and playful, dancing drums of Jack DeJohnette sit nicely with the upbeat numbers. Bill gets to take some ballads by himself as well. This is really some good stuff from monster performers. It left me wanting more - unlike some of my other Bill Evans re-mastered CD's, there are no bonus cuts on this one.

Numerous good points aside, it did surprise me that this album earned a Grammy from the Recording Academy. Listening to this CD as a recording enthusiast was frustrating to me. In the full band numbers, the most prominent sounds were the clicking of the bass and the stick hitting the ride cymbal. The tone of the piano and bass were kind of buried in the background. The state of the art in live jazz recordings was well beyond this point (listen to some of the live recordings of Charlie Parker and Duke Ellington on Ultimate 16:Jazz Cafe ASIN: B000BF0E00), so the sound quality falls short of my expectations. Also, as wonderful a bass player as Eddie Gomez is, I don't enjoy a lot of long bass solos, especially when they are difficult to hear. Finally, repeated listening suggests some rhythmic tugs-of-war between Evans and DeJohnette - neither one plays "wrong", but their "beat placements" (front of the beat, back of the beat) seem to diverge a lot.

These points aside, this CD is a fine effort by Bill Evans and his band that gives a better perspective on his broad range of expression than his more subdued works.

This is great music , but the sound mixing spoils it .......2006-05-21

I was really looking forward to this album and music wise I was not disappointed .

What I wanted to make clear is the eccentric way it sounds - this may not be important to all listeners , but it is to me as a person who sometimes listens on headphones .

The rhythm section instruments move all over the stereo image from song to song and this takes me out of the experience of listening , immersing myself in it and enjoying it to the fullest .

It is very good - I thought it was worth mentioning and it may be something that cannot be remixed or altered .

fantastic!.......2002-10-25

We are fortunate to have a wealth of fine performances by Bill Evans to enjoy. Standouts are almost all of the Riverside trio performances (including the benchmark Village Vanguard discs with Scott Lefaro and Paul Motian), as well as the superb "Turn Out The Stars" box set with his last trio featuring Marc Johnson on bass and Joe Labara on drums.
"At The Montreux Jazz Festival" ranks with these stellar recordings. Jack DeJohnette is, in my opinion, one of the finest drummers (and musicians) we have, and even at this early stage (1968)he is mature and musical like almost no one else can be. Gomez was at a career high, and Evans's playing exceeds his usual fantastic standards.
Verve did a fine job with the 20 bit remastering, and included the entire set list.
Any fan of jazz piano trios should have this disc!

Bill at his most intense........1999-02-16

For all of you jazz fans out there who, unfortunately, think of Bill Evans as the lush, smooth, romantic stylist, this album will come in as a shock. Evans turns in an absolutely powerhouse, intense performance; he swings the hardest he ever did, and his melodic lines are more acerbic and biting than usual. His chording is also much more dry and tense; it's almost like he had been jamming with Herbie Hancock before the concert. Sometimes his solos are hysterically intense, as on "Someday My Prince Will Come." Of course, having Jack De Johnette's angular, disjointed drumming contributes mightily to this previously unseen element in Evans' style. This album should disprove the lingering image of Evans as the "cocktail pianist" among great jazz keyboardists.

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