Bill Evans Album [Original recording remastered, Extra tracks]

Bill Evans, Tony Bennett | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 27, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered, Extra tracks
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B000002AE9
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #300,933 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bill Evans Rules, Still...., October 23, 2001

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M. Adachi "Me B3" (Point Richmond, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bill Evans Album (Audio CD)

I bought this album when it was released in 1971. It's still one of his best, and my favorite, displaying his unique lyrical style using upper harmonic tensions via broken chord and block chord instrumental form, and richly textured bass lines during solo preludes. Interestingly, Bill uses the Rhodes electric piano as though it's an additional instrument in the band, so it's really a quartet, not a trio! Twenty years after his death, pianists still wrestle with understanding his musical conception and approach, including me. This album represents that conception more clearly than any other, and should be studied by all serious jazz pianists. Other than that, it's one of the most enjoyable to listen to. The recording engineering is exquisite, unlike many of his other albums, (sigh), and his playing is spot on.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Album I own, September 15, 2002

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This review is from: Bill Evans Album (Audio CD)

I've had this album for almost a decade and it is still my alltime favorite Bill Evans recording. The use of the rhodes is very tasteful. The version of Waltz for Debby is completely flawless. How can you go wrong? Its a cd of all Bill Evans originals with the Gomez trio, in my mind the most exciting of his trios. For most of the cd, it just flat-out swings. Its not necessarily stereo-typical Bill Evans, but its definitely reminiscent of the Montreaux Concert and Vanguard Sessions (California Here I Come) a few years before. Its no wonder it picked up several grammies in 71!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Bill Evans from the 70s, November 24, 2000

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JayMusic "jaymusic" (NJ, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bill Evans Album (Audio CD)

"The new Bill Evans album keeps changing." So read the half page ad on in the November 25, 1971 issue of the music magazine ROLLING STONE, and they were right about this collection of Evans' originals, for which he won TWO Grammy awards that year. It's like a whole bunch of new albums in one album, the ad continued. The sessions do have that special imprint of Bill's compositional genius, and in its own way, the effect of the whole sounds like its "always changing" -- due, I suppose, to the ever-whirling colorful content of Bill's tunes. "The Bill Evans Album" is one of the pianist's strongest mid-period dates, with Bill clearly in coherent and melodic form, playing all his own compositions on acoustic and electric piano. Repeated listenings are richly and unexpectedly rewarding, and this trio session (with Eddie Gomex and Marty Morrell) remains as fresh today as it was in 1971. And with three bonus alternate tracks to boot! All in all, if one were allowed, let's say, only five Evans albums (a most unpleasant choice) I would think this would have to be one of them. Bill's singular vision, flawless line construction, lavish chordal tapestries , trio interplay, and the timeless beauty of his compositions are just a few of the reasons why. If you've come this far you're obviously more than a casual listener. This is one CD you just can't afford to be without.