Turn Out The Stars : The Final Village Vanguard Recordings

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Bill Evans Trio: Bill Evans (piano); Marc Johnson (bass); Joe LaBarbera (drums).
Producer: Helen Keane.
Compilation producers: Jeff Levenson, Bill Kirchner.
Recorded live at the Village Vanguard, New York, New York from June 4-6 & 8, 1980. Includes liner notes by Bob Blumenthal and Harold Danko.
Personnel: Bill Evans (piano); Marc Johnson (bass instrument); Joe LaBarbera (drums).
Recorded live at the Village Vanguard just months before Evans' sudden death in September, 1980, this material was originally earmarked for an album later that year. However, it remained unissued until 1996 when the compilers discovered Evans' handwritten notes concerning the aborted release.
Listening to these performances with bassist Marc Johnson and drummer Joe LaBarbera, one is struck by how little Evans' overall style had changed in the twenty-four years since his 1956 debut: luxuriously-phrased piano lines, almost horn-like in their length and melodicism, which never lapse into mere vapid prettiness (even on tunes as slick as Paul Simon's "I Do It For Your Love") due to their cerebral, near-abstract quality. Johnson and LaBarbera are an intuitive unit, responding with ease and grace to their leader's occasional flights of fancy.
エディション : Reissue