Bill Evans - The Village Vanguard Sessions album flac

Sunday at the Village Vanguard is a live album by jazz pianist and composer Bill Evans and his Trio consisting of Evans, bassist Scott LaFaro, and drummer Paul Motian. Released in 1961, the album is routinely ranked as one of the best live jazz recordings of all time. Sunday at the Village Vanguard was drawn from material recorded during five sets on June 25, 1961 at the Village Vanguard in New York City

Bill Evans wrote in the liner notes for the album: I’m hoping the trio will grow in the direction of simultaneous improvisation rather than just one guy blowing followed by another guy blowing. The trio did not record any studio material in 1960, although the three musicians all participated in recording sessions for others. Bill Evans played on Oliver Nelson’s The Blues and the Abstract Truth, Paul Motian recorded with Bob Brookmeyer and Scott LaFaro recorded at the end of the year with Steve Kuhn and Pete LaRoca, and participated in Free Jazz, Ornette Coleman’s double quartet album. Ornette Coleman with Scott LaFaro. A second album by the trio was recorded on February 2nd 1961.

Bill Evans and Jazz Piano Since 1945. Bill Evans, with alter ego Bud Powell, defined the art of jazz pianism as performed today. In the same manner that Lester Young and Coleman Hawkins defined post-Swing tenor saxophone, Evans and Powell set the course of jazz piano in the years after World War II. Where Powell represents the muscular, virtuosic, and visceral, Evans represents the lightness of being, possessed of delicate intellect, touch, and spirit. This recent history issued the 31-year-old Evans into the Village Vanguard with his current working group that Spring Sunday Afternoon, for what was ostensibly just another date to make a living as a musician in New York City.

At The Village Vanguard. It should perhaps be stated at the outset that any of these remarks also apply to the album Waltz for Debby, which consists of takes culled from the same live sessions as Sunday at the Village Vanguard. Definitely get that one concurrently with this. It makes no sense to not have both.

Sunday at the Village Vanguard is the initial volume of a mammoth recording session by the Bill Evans Trio, from June 25, 1961 at New York's Village Vanguard documenting Evans' first trio with bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian. Its companion volume is Waltz for Debby. According to Motian, when Evans built this trio based on live gigs at the Basin Street East, the intention was always to develop a complete interactive trio experience. At the time, this was an unheard of notion, since piano trios were largely designed to showcase the prowess of the front line soloist with rhythmic accompaniment.