Bill Evans - The Complete Riverside Recordings (12CDs, 1991)

William John Evans, known as Bill Evans (pronunciation: /ˈɛvəns/, August 16, 1929 – September 15, 1980), was an American jazz pianist and composer who mostly worked in a trio setting. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time, and is considered by some to have been the most influential post-World War II jazz pianist. Evans's use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, block chords, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines continue to influence jazz pianists today. Unlike many other jazz musicians of his time, Evans never embraced new movements like jazz fusion or free jazz.
Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, Evans was classically trained, and studied at Southeastern Louisiana University. In 1955, he moved to New York, where he worked with bandleader and theorist George Russell. In 1958, Evans joined Miles Davis's sextet, where he was to have a profound influence. In 1959, the band, then immersed in modal jazz, recorded Kind of Blue, the best-selling jazz album of all time.
In late 1959, Evans left the Miles Davis band and began his career as a leader with Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian, a group now regarded as a seminal modern jazz trio. In 1961, ten days after recording the highly acclaimed Sunday at the Village Vanguard and Waltz for Debby, LaFaro died in a car accident. After months of seclusion, Evans re-emerged with a new trio, featuring bassist Chuck Israels.
In 1963, Evans recorded Conversations with Myself, an innovative solo album using the unconventional (in jazz solo recordings) technique of overdubbing over himself. In 1966, he met bassist Eddie Gomez, with whom he would work for eleven years. Several successful albums followed, such as Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Alone and The Bill Evans Album, among others. In 1973, he married Nenette Zazzara, with whom he had a son, Evan, who became a film composer.
The span of this 12-CD box set is generally acknowledged as the best Bill Evans material available. That's saying a lot, considering the high quality of The Complete Fantasy Recordings and The Complete Bill Evans on Verve. What the Riverside recordings display is a young Evans discovering his revolutionary harmonic depth and improvisational genius with bursts of energy that, by his second session, had established a kind of moody intensity that seemed to deepen the music while making it at once more complex and easier to absorb. Evans's Riverside years encompass his early dynamos: Everybody Digs Bill Evans is resplendently here, as is the material from Sunday at the Village Vanguard and Waltz for Debby. So, too, are sessions with Cannonball Adderley, Jim Hall, and Zoot Sims. Through it all, Evans remains firmly planted in a winding style that's creatively unstoppable and visceral in its intensity.

Tracklist:

Disc: 1
1. I Love You
2. Five
3. Conception
4. Easy Living
5. Displacement
6. Speak Low
7. Our Delight
8. No Cover, No Minimum (take 1-Alternate)
9. No Cover, No Minimum (take 2-Originally Issued)
10. I've Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
11. Waltz For Debby
12. My Romance
13. Minority
14. Young And Foolish
15. Night & Day
16. Oleo

Disc: 2
1. Tenderly
2. What Is There To Say?
3. Peace Piece
4. Lucky To Be Me
5. Some Other Time
6. Epilogue
7. You & The Night & The Music
8. How Am I To Know?
9. Woody'n You (Take 1)
10. Woody'n You (Take 2)
11. My Heart Stood Still
12. Green Dolphin Street
13. Peri's Scope
14. Witchcraft

Disc: 3
1. Spring Is Here
2. What Is This Thing Called Love?
3. Come Rain Or Come Shine
4. Blue In Green (Take 2-Previously Unissued)
5. Blue In Green (Take 3-Originally Issued)
6. Autumn Leaves (Mono)
7. Autumn Leaves (Stereo)
8. Some Day My Prince Will Come
9. When I Fall In Love
10. Elsa
11. Sweet & Lovely
12. Beautiful Love (Take 1-Previously Unissued)
13. Beautiful Love (Take 2-Originally Issued)

Disc: 4
1. I Wish I Knew
2. The Boy Next Door
3. Haunted Heart
4. Nardis
5. How Deep Is The Ocean?
6. Israel
7. Who Cares? (Take 4-Previously Unissued)
8. Who Cares? (Take 5-Originally Issued)
9. Goodbye
10. Nancy (With The Laughing Face)
11. Toy
12. Elsa
13. Waltz For Debby
14. Venice

Disc: 5
1. Know What I Mean? (Take 12-Alternate)
2. Know What I Mean? (Take Re-7-Originally Issued)
3. Alice In Wonderland (Take 1-Alternate)
4. My Foolish Heart
5. All of You (Take 1-Previously Unissued)
6. My Romance (Take 1-Originally Issued)
7. Some Other Time
8. Solar
9. Gloria's Step (Take 2-Originally Issued)
10. My Man's Gone Now

Disc: 6
1. All of You (Take 2-Originally Issued)
2. Detour Ahead (Take 1-Alternate)
3. Waltz For Debby (Take 1-Alternate)
4. Alice In Wonderland (Take 2-Originally Issued)
5. Porgy (I Loves You, Porgy)
6. My Romance Take 2-Alternate)
7. Milestones
8. Detour Ahead (Take 2-Originally Issued)
9. Gloria's Step (Take 3-Alternate)

Disc: 7
1. Waltz For Debby (Take 2-Originally Issued)
2. All of You (Take 3-Alternate)
3. Jade Visions (Take 1-Alternate)
4. Jade Visions (Take 2-Originally Issued)
5. …A Few Final Bars
6. Danny Boy
7. Like Someone In Love
8. In Your Own Sweet Way
9. Easy to Love
10. How My Heart Sings
11. Summertime
12. If You Could See Me Now
13. Walking Up

Disc: 8
1. Very Early
2. Show-Type Tune
3. Re: Person I Knew
4. 34 Skidoo
5. Palkadots & Moonbeams
6. I Should Care
7. I Fall in Love Too Easily
8. Ev'rything I Love
9. In Love In Vain
10. Stairway to the Stars
11. In Your Own Sweet Way (Take 1-Originally Issued)
12. In Your Own Sweet Way (Take 2-Previously Unissued)
13. It Might As Well Be Spring

Disc: 9
1. Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams
2. When You Wish Upon A Star
3. You Go To My Head
4. You & The Night & The Music
5. Interplay
6. I'll Never Smile Again (Take Re-6-Previously Unissued)
7. I'll Never Smile Again (Take Re-7-Originally Issued)
8. Loose Bloose (Take 3)
9. Loose Bloose (Takes 2 & 4)
10. Fudgesickle Built For Four
11. Times Remembered

Disc: 10
1. Funkallero
2. My Bells
3. There Came You
4. Run Ride
5. What Kind Of Fool Am I? (Take 1)
6. My Favorite Things/Easy To Love/Baubles, Bangles & Beads
7. When I Fall In Love
8. 'Spartacus' Love Theme/Nardis
9. Everything Happens To Me
10. April In Paris

Disc: 11
1. All The Things You Are
2. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
3. I Loves You, Porgy
4. What Kind Of Fool Am I? (Take 2)
5. Love Is Here To Stay
6. Ornithology
7. Autumn In New York/How About You?
8. All The Things You Are
9. Lover Man
10. Love Is Here To Say
11. Stella By Starlight

Disc: 12
1. 'Round Midnight
2. Who Cares?
3. The Boy Next Door
4. Isn't It Romantic?
5. What Is This Thing Called Love?
6. How About You?
7. Blues In F/Five
8. Everything Happens To Me
9. In A Sentimental Mood
10. My Heart Stood Still
11. Time Remembered
12. Wonder Why
13. Swedish Pastry

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