The Solo Sessions Vol. 2 (CD) ~ Bill Evans (Artist) Cover Art

The Solo Sessions Vol. 2 (CD)

By: Bill Evans (Artist)

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DISC 1 for The Solo Sessions Vol. 2 (CD) Album By Bill Evans (Artist)
1   All The Things You Are
2   Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
3   I Loves You, Porgy
4   What Kind Of Fool Am I? - (take 2)
5   Love Is Here To Stay
6   Ornithology
7   Autumn In New York / How About You?
 

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Title Note

Solo performer: Bill Evans (piano).

Recorded at Sound Makers Studio, New York, New York on January 10, 1963. Includes liner notes by Gene Lees.

Digitally remastered by Phil De Lancie (1991, Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California).

Although the disc's liner notes indicate that, at the time of this recording, Bill Evans was going through an unusually tough period (because of his severe heroin addiction and the recent death of long time sideman Scott LaFaro) there's no hint of incompetence or hesitation in Evans' playing. In fact, his keyboard work is at its most fiery and uninhibited here. Unusually raw and bluesy at times, Evans makes the usually innocuous "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" into an all-out jam before turning delicately (and gorgeously) introspective on "I Loves You Porgy." In fact, the latter performance ranks among the purest and prettiest Evans recordings on record.

The remainder of THE SOLO SESSIONS VOL. 2 (which is actually the second part of a single session) is comprised of several other standards and a mightily swinging version of Charlie Parker's "Ornithology." In addition to being a splendid jazz recording by any standard, this disc is interesting in that it represents Bill Evans at his most human. Perhaps because of the aforementioned personal problems, his playing has a certain sense of reckless abandon (not that his playing was sloppy-- Evans was, above all else, a flawless technician)-a quality rarely seen in this meticulous, superior musician.

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