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Sesjun Radio Shows
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Track Listing: (DISC 1:), (DISC 2:), 1. If You Could See Me Now - (featuring Joe Labarbera/Bill Evans), 1. Up With the Lark - (featuring Bill Evans), 2. My Romance - (featuring Joe Labarbera/Bill Evans), 2. Time Remembered - (featuring Bill Evans), 3. Laurie - (featuring Joe Labarbera/Bill Evans), 3. Ttt (Twelve Tone Tune) - (featuring Bill Evans), 4. Nardis - (featuring Joe Labarbera/Bill Evans), 4. Two Lonely People, The - (featuring Bill Evans), 5. Blue In Green - (featuring Joe Labarbera/Toots Thielemans/Bill Evans), 5. Some Other Time - (featuring Bill Evans), 6. Days of Wine and Roses, The - (featuring Joe Labarbera/Toots Thielemans/Bill Evans), 6. Sugar Plum - (featuring Eliot Zigmund/Bill Evans), 7. I Do It For Your Love - (featuring Joe Labarbera/Toots Thielemans/Bill Evans), 7. Sareen Jurer - (featuring Eliot Zigmund/Bill Evans), 8. Bluesette - (featuring Joe Labarbera/Toots Thielemans/Bill Evans), 8. Morning Glory - (featuring Eliot Zigmund/Bill Evans), 9. Five - (featuring Joe Labarbera/Toots Thielemans/Bill Evans), 9. Tttt (Twelve Tone Tune Two) - (featuring Eliot Zigmund/Bill Evans), 10. Blue Serge - (featuring Eliot Zigmund/Bill Evans)
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Transfigured man
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5.0
Posted by: dbrierly
from Studio City, CA
on 07/19/2011
Few jazz artists end up profoundly changing the way subsequent musicians approach their particular instrument. Bill Evans was one. Miles Davis recognized this fact when he hired Evans to play on the seminal recording “Kind of Blue.” But even if that historic encounter had never occurred, Evans would still have been known as a pianist’s pianist, a man whose unique phrasing, rhythmic sense and emotional color put him in an exclusive category of one. Like most great musicians, Evans was at his best in live settings, as his early 1960s and 1980 Village Vanguard recordings attest. Now, with this Sesjun Radio Shows two-disc set, fans have further opportunity to appreciate the deepened levels of his art throughout the 1970s. The pianist, who was to tragically die in 1980 at the age of 51, is featured in concerts from 1973 (a duo setting with bassist Eddie Gomez); 1975 (with Gomez and drummer Eliot Zigmund); and 1979 (with bassist Marc Johnson, drummer Joe LaBarbera and harmonica legend Toots Thielemans). Each of these concerts is distinct in character while remaining true to Evans’ sound. The 1973 interplay between Evans and Gomez might be my favorite. Gomez matches Evans note for inventive note, and the minimalism of the setting really seems to inspire both men to greater heights. Evans’ music has been described in lots of different ways, but I always think of him in terms of transfiguration. You can hear in his playing a continual attempt to keep setting the bar higher for himself, to say something new and profound each time his fingers touched the keyboard. And from a listener’s perspective, one nearly always comes away from an Evans performance feeling a tangible sense of renewal and optimism. You can’t ask more from music or a musician.
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