Bill Evans - Sunday At The Village Vanguard (1961)
Track Listing (standout tracks listed in bold)
1. Gloria's Step (Take 2)
2. Gloria's Step (Take 3)
3. My Man's Gone Now
4. Solar
5. Alice In Wonderland (Take 2)
6. Alice In Wonderland (Take 1)
7. All Of You (Take 2)
8. All Of You (Take 3)
9. Jade Visions (Take 2)
10. Jade Visions (Take 1)
And yet another jazz album. This one I didn’t really care for that much. Sunday at the Village Vanguard is the initial volume of a huge recording session by the Bill Evans Trio recorded in June of 1961 at New York's Village Vanguard. This trio is widely regarded as his finest. Tragically, the bassist Scott LaFaro was killed in an automobile accident just ten days after this session was recorded!
If you were to want to get into Bill Evans I suppose this is a great place to begin with, but it doesn’t have that good ‘feel’ to the music that the jazz albums that I have been playing recently have had. It is a very demanding album to listen to and asks a lot of the listener – a commitment if you will – to understand the music and what’s going on. Sadly, the music just isn’t good enough to do that.
Not recommended
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