Artist: Bill Evans
Title: Riverside Recordings
Year Of Release: 1956-2010
Label: Riverside
Genre: Jazz
Quality: FLAC {Tracks, 24bit/96kHz}
Total Time: 07:35:20 min
Total Size: 8,8 Gb
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This collection of Bill Evans' wonderful work for Riverside is nothing short of magnificent. The 12-discs (nicely packaged in three, 4-disc holders similar to the old 2-cd sets) in this set contain over 13 hours of music (the remastering from 1987 is good) and almost 150 tracks. Evans' work from 1956-1963 (arguably his most productive) is what this box set is all about. The peerless recordings with Scott LeFaro and Paul Motian are highlights (of course) as well as a session with Cannonball Adderley, Evans' "Interplay" sessions, some previously unreleased, beautiful solo piano (subsequently available on other records--the Solo Sessions for example), and all Evans' other recordings for Riverside. Naturally this includes the brilliant "Everybody Digs Bill Evans", "Portrait in Jazz", "Sunday at the Village Vanguard", and "Waltz for Debby" amongst others. Many alternate takes (some more engaging than the originals) are included (most, if not all, of these have been included on recent re-releases of these classic albums) and the set comes with an excellent 32-page booklet (dimensionally similar to an lp) detailing the recording sessions and paying tribute to one of jazz's greatest pianists. While the majority of the music in this set can be collected via the individual cds, this set is well-packaged, well-annotated, more easily stored, and a lot easier to purchase. Fans of jazz piano and especially fans of Bill Evans (even if you own all the individual discs, this set is probably worth the investment) will very much enjoy this set and all the hours of listening enjoyment that come along with it. Very Highly Recommended.
LPs:
1. New Jazz Conceptions
2. Everybody Digs Bill Evans
3. Portrait In Jazz
4. Cannonball Adderley with Bill Evans - Know What I Mean?
5. Explorations
6. Sunday at the Village Vanguard
7. Waltz for Debby
8. Moon Beams
9. How My Heart Sings!
10. Interplay
11. At Shelly's Manne-Hole
Tracklist:
Bill Evans - New Jazz Conceptions
Side One
1. "I Love You" (Cole Porter) - 5:15
2. "Five" (Bill Evans) – 4:00
3. "I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)" (Duke Ellington, Paul Francis Webster) – 1:37
Side Two
1. "Conception" (George Shearing) – 4:44
2. "Easy Living" (Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger) – 3:51
3. "Displacement" (Bill Evans) – 2:34
Side Three
1. "Speak Low" (Kurt Weill, Ogden Nash) – 5:08
2. "Waltz for Debby" (Bill Evans, Gene Lees) – 1:18
3. "Our Delight" (Tadd Dameron) – 4:44
Side Four
1. "My Romance" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 1:59
2. "No Cover, No Minimum" (Bill Evans) – 7:31
Released 1956
Recorded September 18-27, 1956
Label Riverside/Analogue Productions
Producers Bill Grauer, Orrin Keepnews
Personnel:
* Bill Evans - piano
* Teddy Kotick - bass
* Paul Motian - drums
Bill Evans Trio - Everybody Digs Bill Evans
Side One
1. "Minority" (Gigi Gryce) – 5:20
2. "Young and Foolish" (Albert Hague, Arnold B. Horwitt) – 5:48
Side Two
1. "Lucky to Be Me" (Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden, Adolph Green) – 3:35
2. "Night and Day" (Cole Porter) – 7:12
3. "Epilogue" (Bill Evans) – 0:38
Side Three
1. "Tenderly" (Walter Gross) – 3:29
2. "Peace Piece" (Bill Evans) – 6:37
Side Four
1. "What Is There to Say?" (Vernon Duke, E.Y. "Yip" Harburg) – 4:49
2. "Oleo" (Sonny Rollins) – 4:04
3. "Epilogue" (Bill Evans) – 0:38
Released: 1958
Recorded: December 15, 1958 in New York City
Label: Riverside/Analogue Productions
Producer: Orrin Keepnews
Personnel
* Bill Evans - piano
* Sam Jones - bass
* Philly Joe Jones - drums
Bill Evans Trio - Portrait In Jazz
Side One
1. "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 3:19
2. "Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma, Jacques Prevert, Johnny Mercer) – 5:58
Side Two
1. "Witchcraft" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) – 4:30
2. "When I Fall in Love" (Victor Young, Edward Heyman) – 4:50
3. "Peri's Scope" (Bill Evans) – 3:11
Side Three
1. "What Is This Thing Called Love?" (Cole Porter) – 4:33
2. "Spring is Here" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 5:01
Side Four
1. "Some Day My Prince Will Come" (Frank Churchill, Larry Morey) – 4:48
2. "Blue in Green" (Miles Davis, Bill Evans) - 5:18
Released 1959
Recorded December 28, 1959
Genre Jazz
Length 41:28
Label Riverside/Analogue Productions
Producers Bill Grauer, Orrin Keepnews
Personnel
* Bill Evans - piano
* Scott LaFaro - bass
* Paul Motian - drums
Cannonball Adderley with Bill Evans - Know What I Mean?
Side One
1. "Waltz For Debby" (Bill Evans, Gene Lees) - 5:15
2. "Goodbye" (Gordon Jenkins) - 6:15
Side Two
1. "Who Cares? (Take 5)" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 5:57
2. "Venice" (John Lewis) - 2:55
Side Three
1. "Toy" (Clifford Jordan) - 5:09
2. "Elsa" (Earl Zindars) - 5:52
Side Four
1. "Nancy (With The Laughing Face)" (Phil Silvers, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 4:08
2. "Know What I Mean? (Re-take 7)" (Bill Evans) - 4:54
Released 1961
Recorded January 27, February 21 and March 13, 1961 at Bell Sound Studios, New York
Genre Jazz
Length 40:25
Label Riverside/Analogue Productions
Producer Orrin Keepnews
Personnel
* Cannonball Adderley - alto saxophone, leader
* Bill Evans - piano
* Percy Heath - bass
* Connie Kay - drums
Bill Evans Trio - Explorations
Side One
1. "Israel" (John Carisi) – 6:08
2. "Haunted Heart" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) – 3:25 [Howard Dietz wrote lyrics for this song, but this recording is instrumental]
Side Two
1. "Beautiful Love" (take 2) (Wayne King, Egbert Van Alstyne, Victor Young) – 5:03 [Haven Gillespie wrote lyrics for this song, but this recording is instrumental]
2. "Elsa" (Earl Zindars) – 5:05
Side Three
1. "Nardis" (Miles Davis) – 5:48
2. "How Deep Is the Ocean?" (Irving Berlin) – 3:30
Side Four
1. "I Wish I Knew" (Harry Warren) – 4:39 [Mack Gordon wrote lyrics for this song, but this recording is instrumental]
2. "Sweet and Lovely" (Gus Arnheim, Jules LeMare, Harry Tobias) – 5:50
Released 1961
Recorded February 2, 1961 in New York City
Label Riverside/Analogue Productions
Producer Orrin Keepnews
Personnel
* Bill Evans - piano
* Scott LaFaro - bass
* Paul Motian - drums
Bill Evans Trio - Sunday at the Village Vanguard
Side One
1. "Gloria's Step" (Scott LaFaro) – 6:05
2. "My Man's Gone Now" (George Gershwin) – 6:21
Side Two
3. "Solar" (Miles Davis) – 8:51
Side Three
4. "Alice in Wonderland" (Sammy Fain) – 8:32
Side Four
5. "All of You" (Cole Porter) – 8:20
6. "Jade Visions" (Scott LaFaro) – 3:46
Released: 1961
Recorded: Village Vanguard, New York City, June 25, 1961
Label: Riverside/Analogue Productions
Producer: Orrin Keepnews
Personnel
* Bill Evans - piano
* Scott LaFaro - bass
* Paul Motian - drums
Bill Evans Trio - Waltz for Debby
Side One
1. "My Foolish Heart" (Victor Young, Ned Washington) - 4:56
2. "Waltz for Debby" (Bill Evans, Gene Lees) - 6:54
Side Two
3. "Detour Ahead" (Lou Carter, Herb Ellis, Johnny Frigo) - 7:35
Side Three
4. "My Romance" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 7:11
Side Four
5. "Some Other Time" (Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden, Adolph Green) - 5:02
6. "Milestones" (Miles Davis) - 6:37
Released: 1961
Recorded: Village Vanguard, New York City, June 25, 1961
Label: Riverside/Analogue Productions
Producer: Orrin Keepnews
Personnel
* Bill Evans - piano
* Scott LaFaro - bass
* Paul Motian - drums
Bill Evans Trio - Moon Beams
Side One
1. "Re: Person I Knew" (Bill Evans) – 5:42
2. "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 4:57
Side Two
3. "I Fall In Love Too Easily" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) – 2:39
4. "Stairway to the Stars" (Matty Malneck, Mitchell Parish) – 4:48
Side Three
5. "If You Could See Me Now" (Tadd Dameron) – 4:24
6. "It Might as Well Be Spring" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 6:03
Side Four
7. "In Love In Vain" (Leo Robin, Jerome Kern) – 4:56
8. "Very Early" (Bill Evans) – 5:04
Released 1962
Recorded May 17 - June 2, 1962 at Sound Makers Studio, New York City
Producer Orrin Keepnews
Personnel
* Bill Evans - piano
* Chuck Israels - bass
* Paul Motian - drums
Bill Evans Trio - How My Heart Sings!
Side One
1. "How My Heart Sings" (Earl Zindars) – 4:56
2. "I Should Care" (Sammy Cahn, Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston) – 4:53
Side Two
3. "In Your Own Sweet Way" (Dave Brubeck) – 6:57
4. "Walkin' Up" (Bill Evans) – 4:54
Side Three
5. "Summertime" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) – 5:56
6. "34 Skidoo" (Bill Evans) – 6:19
Side Four
7. "Ev'rything I Love" (Cole Porter) – 4:11
8. "Show-Type Tune" (Bill Evans) – 4:23
Released 1962
Recorded May 17, May 29 and June 5, 1961 in New York City
Genre Jazz
Length 42:29
Label Riverside/Analogue Productions
Producer Orrin Keepnews
Personnel
* Bill Evans - piano
* Chuck Israels - bass
* Paul Motian - drums
Bill Evans Quintet - Interplay
Side One
1. "You and the Night and the Music" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) – 7:04
Side Two
2. "When You Wish upon a Star" (Leigh Harline, Ned Washington) – 5:45
3. "I'll Never Smile Again" (Ruth Lowe) – 6:32
Side Three
4. "Interplay" (Bill Evans) – 8:14
Side Four
5. "You Go to My Head" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) – 5:06
6. "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away)" (Harry Barris, Ted Koehler, Billy Moll) – 6:24
Released 1962
Recorded July 16-17 and August 21, 1962 in New York City
Label Riverside/Analogue Productions
Producer Orrin Keepnews
Personnel
* Bill Evans - piano
* Percy Heath - bass
* Philly Joe Jones - drums
* Jim Hall - guitar
* Freddie Hubbard - trumpet
Bill Evans Trio - At Shelly's Manne-Hole
Side One
1. "Isn't It Romantic?" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 4:34
2. "The Boy Next Door" (Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin) – 5:14
Side Two
1. "Wonder Why" (Nicholas Brodszky, Sammy Cahn) – 5:05
2. "Swedish Pastry" (Barney Kessel) – 5:35
Side Three
1. "Our Love Is Here to Stay" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 4:41
2. "'Round Midnight" (Thelonious Monk, Cootie Williams) – 8:50
Side Four
1. "Stella by Starlight" (Ned Washington, Victor Young) – 4:50
2. "Blues in F" (Chuck Israels) – 5:05
Released 1963
Recorded May 14 and 19, 1963 in Hollywood, CA
Label Riverside/Analogue Productions
Producer Richard Bock
Personnel
* Bill Evans - piano
* Chuck Israels - bass
* Larry Bunker - drums
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