专辑英文名: Sunday at the Village Vanguard
歌手: Bill Evans
音乐风格: 爵士
资源格式: APE
版本: [LIVE][ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]
发行时间: 2008年
地区: 美国
语言: 英语
简介:
Release Date: September 16, 2008
Label: Riverside
Asin: B001D6OKJ2
Genres: Jazz, Cool Jazz
专辑介绍：
Bill Evans和Scott LaFaro于59年开始合作，开创了jazz piano trio的崭新形式，两人的合作在1961年驻场于纽约Village Vanguard时期达到巅峰状态，61年6月25日的演出后来被收集于Sunday at the Village Vanguard和Waltz for Debby两张专辑中（两张专辑均为企鹅爵士4星戴花和AMG5星）。录音后一周，LaFaro就因为车祸不幸身亡，Village Vanguard的录音也成为他最后的录音。
Conventional wisdom, which in this case may be right, holds that Bill Evans' storied career peaked on June 25, 1961, a date that yielded two live records, Sunday at the Village Vanguard and Waltz for Debby, the final two documents of Evans' first, and best, trio, with bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian. In the two years he'd been playing with Evans, LaFaro had opened up new possibilities for the jazz bass, playing with a harmonically oblique, melodically flexible style that was, at the time, unprecedented. Ten days after this record was made he died, just 25 years old.
Sunday at the Village Vanguard may be the ultimate monument to LaFaro's talent; it features two of his compositions, "Gloria's Step" and "Jade Visions," and he plays lengthy and dazzling solos on nearly every track. It's not just LaFaro who was playing well, though — the whole trio was in top form for this date, a delicately balanced unit anchored weightlessly by Motian's ever-shifting, reactive timekeeping, with Evans' limpid, impressionistic harmonies floating above like clouds. There are no missteps in this set, but a highlight is the dark, mournful reading of Gershwin's "My Man's Gone Now."
