Your Story: Music of Bill Evans

Howard Alden | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 27, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Concord Records
• ASIN: B0000006NJ
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,440 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Tune For A Lyric

2. Loose Bloose

3. Displacement

4. Time Remembered

5. Two Lonely People

6. Funkallero

7. Only Child

8. Laurie

9. Maxine

10. Five

11. Your Story

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Complex, Beautiful And Excellent, July 22, 2002

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Robert J. Ament "papacoolbreeze" (Ballwin, MO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Your Story: Music of Bill Evans (Audio CD)

Not having a music education makes it difficult to describe this cd. The music of Bill Evans is very complex and cerebral without being incomprehensible or losing appeal as it certainly swings and paints a variety of emotional colors. It's like a classical approach to jazz. It has a certain introspection, calmness and peacefulness as its components.

That said, it seems to lend itself to an excellent interpretation by this group......almost as though it was written for guitar instead of piano.

Two of my favorite faster cuts are "Displacement", a fine exercise for displaying the talents of Alden, and "Funkallero" with Frank Wess on tenor.

Speaking of Frank Wess, some of the most sensitive work I've heard by him is on a beautiful composition titled "Laurie".

"Only Child" starts out on a somber note with Wess on flute, Alden comes in on guitar adding a lot of warmth and Wess returns with a lighter more airy approach.

"Loose Bloose" has some good harmonization between tenor sax and guitar while "Time Remembered" is handled in a Latin vein with Wess on flute.

Again, I would describe it overall as introspective, a more compromising classical approach to jazz that's very refreshing.
If you like the music of Bill Evans, or the guitar artistry of Howard Alden, or something with a little substance that is good jazz without being strident, you will definitely enjoy this as I have.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Howard's Favorite, June 9, 2005

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John Wagner (Sacramento, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Your Story: Music of Bill Evans (Audio CD)

Howard Alden was playing a small venue in CA in June, 2005. It was a rainy week night and the crowd was surprisingly small, so I had a chance to ask Howard which of his many CD projects was his favorite. While he said he like parts of all of them, he said he was particularly pleased with the outcome on this CD. Check it out if you can find it.