Five albums in a three-disc Box Set featuring the legendary Bill Evans. Bill Evans co-wrote 'Kind Of Blue' with Miles Davis and is regarded by many as the most influential jazz pianist of his generation. The trio he formed in 1959 with the brilliant, ill-fated young bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motion is surely as fine as any in jazz history. This three-disc box set edition comprises almost everything this Evans trio recorded; The two miraculous studio albums, 'Portrait In Jazz' and 'Explorations'; the intimate live sets recorded in New York in the summer of 1961, 'Sunday Night At The Village Vanguard' and 'Waltz For Debby'. These masterpieces are complimented by the Birdland sessions - an earlier musical document of the trio in an authentic club setting - with disc three completed by the their first recordings together, with the jazz clarinettist Tony Scott; for the album 'Sung Heroes', his homages to Billie Holiday and the trumpeter "Hot Lips" Page. The Canadian journalist Gene Lees was a close friend of Evans: "Bill wanted it to be a three- way colloquy, rather than pianist-accompanied-by-rhythm-section. And it was. LaFaro, still in his early twenties, had developed bass playing to a new level of facility. He had a gorgeous tone and unflagging melodicism. Motian, Armenian by background, had since childhood been steeped in a music of complex time figures and was able to feed his companions patterns of polyrhythm that delighted them both.

Tracklist:

Come Rain Or Come Shine
Autumn Leaves
Witchcraft
When I Fall In Love
Peri's Scope
What Is This Thing Called Love?
Spring Is Here
Someday My Prince Will Come
Blue In Green
Israel
Haunted Heart
Beautiful Love
Elsa
Nardis
How Deep Is The Ocean?
I Wish I Knew
Sweet And Lovely
Gloria's Step [Take 2]
My Man's Gone Now
Solar
Alice in Wonderland (Take 2)
All of You [Take 2]
Jade Visions [Take 2]
My Foolish Heart
Waltz for Debby (take 2)
Detour Ahead (take 2)
My Romance (take 1)
Some Other Time?12 Milestones
Autumn Leaves
Our Delight
Beautiful Love / Five (Closing Theme)
Autumn Leaves
Come Rain Or Come Shine / Five (Closing Theme)
Come Rain Or Come Shine
Nardis
Blue In Green
Autumn Leaves
All Of You
Come Rain Or Come Shine
Speak Low
Misery (for Lady Day)
Requiem for Hot Lips Page

UPC: 5013929336131
Label: El Records
Release Date: 5.6.22
Format: CD

Bill Evans Trio - Legendary Bill Evans Trio (Uk) (CD)