Most of that is the result, I believe, of his extremely personal, vulnerable, lyrical style. ….I have been a fan of Evans’ unique approach to playing jazz piano from the time of that release, and while it may be true that not everybody digs Bill Evans, I have seen over the years that for those jazz fans who do dig him, they really dig him, dig him very deeply, and feel a profound emotional/spiritual connection with his music. Evans was reportedly upset by it, and cracked, “Why didn’t you get a quote from my mother?!” ….When Riverside Records released Bill Evans’ second album as a leader in 1959, they titled it-unknown to Evans in advance- Everybody Digs Bill Evans, and filled the cover with laudatory quotations from several high-ranking jazz artists, including Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley and George Shearing. Photographed by Steve Schapiro for Riverside Records Publicity photo of American jazz pianist Bill Evans in 1961. And some of the other cds have extra tracks, so.Photo by Steve Schapiro, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The Village Vanguard 3-cd set offers a lot. The attached booklet is also very nice.īut there is a redundancy factor too. These were good recordings to begin with.
I think the consensus is that later remasterings can be better (notably the Analogue Productions 45rpmx2 sets, mostly out of print at this point), but that the ones done in early 1980s for the box set are fine. It's been much-discussed here in terms of sound quality and whatnot. I have the 18-lp box set and it is very nice to have. And, mind you, I probably prefer Monk as a pianist at the end of the day-as did Evans probably too. I don't say this out of white pride, but out of recognition of how very special Evans's contribution to the art form was. And these recordings are the core of Evans's output. FWIW I'm inclined to agree with Martin Williams that no white musician has contributed as much to the African-American art form of jazz as Bill Evans, except for Bix Beiderbecke.
I would say get the box, but this is also my favorite period of Bill Evans's recorded output by a long shot.
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