Green Dolphin Street [Original recording remastered, Import]

Bill Evans | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 21, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered, Import
• Label: Jvc Japan
• ASIN: B00005GWJA
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,727,467 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. You and the Night and the Music

2. My Heart Stood Still

3. On Green Dolphin Street

4. How Am I to Know?

5. Woody 'N You [Take 1]

6. Woody 'N You [Take 2]

7. Loose Bloose

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good News - Bad News, January 7, 2002

By 

Paul Dana (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Green Dolphin Street (Audio CD)

There's both good news and bad news with this Japanese-remastered release of 1959's "On Green Dolphin Street."

The good news is that, with the title of this CD, they've managed to get the title right, for once. (The actual title of the song is, and always has been, "Green Dolphin Street." The "On" part seems to have been added -- and to have stuck ever since -- at about the time the Miles Davis Sextet recorded it.)

Additionally, the new xrcd 20-bit mastering is a definite enhancement to overall sound quality: Evans and Chambers and Jones have never sounded better together. If you're a deep-dyed audiophile, the extra money's worth spending.

Bad news: The inclusion of "Loose Bloose" performed by Evans, Zoot Sims, Jim Hall, Ron Carter and Philly Joe Jones. It's jarring for a number of reasons, not the least of which being that it doesn't jibe either with the trio setting or the upbeat feeling of the other cuts. Whereas the other six cuts on this CD were recorded in early 1959, the final cut was recorded in August 1962; this is significant in that Evans had spent the previous year as a virtual recluse, profoundly affected by the death of bassist Scott LeFaro (to the extent that he'd seriously considered giving up music altogether). At the recording of this final cut, Evans' contribution is far more understated and brooding. Both his head and his playing are in a far different space.

The ill-advised inclusion of this number closes the CD on a "downer," thematically and musically.

And that's bad news.

5.0 out of 5 stars A Swingin' Affair, September 9, 2006

By 

M. Kurtz (Yorba Linda, California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Green Dolphin Street (Audio CD)

This album is packed with swing and groove because behind the beat are P.C. and Philly Joe. Normally Evans chooses the albums he creates to have half of it or more in ballad form. On this meeting, which was a late night session in 1959, they kept them all upbeat and really energized. If you're an Evan's fan, this album will deffinately help you groove.