Trio 65

Bill Evans | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 19, 1993)
• Original Release Date: 1965
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B0000046R6
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #36,390 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Swinging and melodic, December 3, 2000

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Kenneth James Michael MacLean (Ann Arbor, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Trio 65 (Audio CD)

Is there such a thing as a bad Bill Evans album?? I haven't heard one. This date in particular is beautiful -- swinging, melodic and just wonderful. Here, Bill Evans is in top form. His playing is always definitive, but it seems to me he is playing with particular verve and conviction on this date. Elsa is my favorite tune on this one and the beauty of the playing is indescribable. Listening to this man often brings a tear to my eye, or a wave of inspirational energy. This gentle being expresses the potential of the human soul like no other musician I have ever heard. If you are looking for a date which combines the best of swinging tunes and ballads, this is a great choice!

14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bill Evans at his best, December 24, 1999

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Roger Davidson (New York, NY, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trio 65 (Audio CD)

I have known this album since it came out in 1965, and it is still one of my absolute favorites among the recordings of Bill Evans. Not only is his playing outstanding, but so is the musical cohesiveness of this trio. The album is both very listenable and very danceable -- if you are a dancer it will surely make you dance. This is a true classic, a recording of timeless value.

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hard work always do the job, July 20, 2006

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Jazzcat "stef" (Genoa, Italy Italy) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trio 65 (Audio CD)

This album from Bill Evans really is something that every jazz connossoir should own. It is magical! I did buy this one more or less 15 years ago when I first started to really appreciate true Jazz. I was a rock guitarist interested in fusion a little bit in those days. At that time I used to listen to Pat Metheny Group, Lee Ritenour (that was the farest I went in the Jazz territory).. absolutly good music don't get me wrong, but it's not pure Jazz. One LUCKY day I saw Sonny Stitt on tv, blowing a fast bebop blues and that vision completly blew me away. When I saw him I knew what kind of music I would like to play in my life. It was a revelation for me. Some guitar players say that seeing Jimi Hendrix on TV (even adding something like "when he burned his guitar in Miami or Monterey, he was so coooooool") took them to the decision to play the guitar. On the contrary seeing Sonny Stitt playing a bebop blues let me understand that I HAD to play bebop. I was already a guitarist (but Hendrix never said enough to me and I absolutly don't find coooool a thing such as "guitars burning"! =)))) ), but Sonny let me understand that was the language not the instrument. So I started to study Charlie Parker deeply for fifteen years. (Don't know why I'm telling you this story.. but)... Some months later my Sonny Stitt folgoration, I met this album. I found this album extremely difficult to understand at the time. I remember it was so hard for me to listen to it, it seemed to me a homework. Bill Evans work on the piano seemed to me extremely intellectual and hard to get ... but I didn't understand why it should be so difficult. It didn't entertain me because I didn't feel the fire Sonny Stitt had for example. This music is a lot more sophisticated under certain point of views (I still love to death Sonny of course). How things change my friends! Now after 15 years of hard jazz studies this album seems to me light as the wings of a butterfly and PURE GENIUS! Bill plays in a fantastic way with this trio. He plays a little more boppish than what he usually do. I think this album is a perfect gem, a perfect program of interesting and memorable tunes, played as only a master musician such as Bill could do. His musical personality is absolutly evident here and he plays here with a particular concentration and lucidity. This is really a GEM. Probably the best Bill Evans album I own, and I own many of his. And probably one of the best piano trio albums overall! In particular I love this album ALSO because I remember quite clearly how difficult this music seemed to me at first and perfectly testify to me that HARD WORK ALWAYS DO THE JOB. Thanxs for the lesson Bill!