Release Date: 30 July 2021
Label: Elemental Music
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 8435395503164
Genres: Jazz Modern Postbebop
Description
Deluxe 2CD set with 32-page booklet with rare and previously unseen Bill Evans photos, new Eddie Gomez and Marty Morell interviews, and specially prepared essays by Dutch jazz pianist Bert Vuijsje, and producers Frank Jochemsem & Zev Feldman.
The complete Hilversum concert, as well as the Metropole session are previously unreleased.
The Amsterdam concert has only been available on bootleg with inferior sound quality.
This is the first official release of the three performances and all mastered for vinyl by Bernie Grundman from the original Dutch Radio source tapes.
The Hilversum concert contains Bill Evans' only existing version of Duke Ellington's classic "I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart."
Sessions:
Discs 1 & 2: tracks 1-3: Kro Studio, Hilversum, Holland, March 26, 1969.
Disc 2: tracks 4-10: Rai Congrescentrum, Amsterdam, Holland, November 28, 1969.
Disc 2: tracks 11-12: with the Metropole Orkest under the direction of Dolf van der Linden with arrangements by Claus Ogerman. Vara Studio 8, Hilversum, Holland, March 25, 1969.
Personnel: Bill Evan (piano), Eddie Gomez (bass), Marty Morell (drums)
Tracklisting
Bill Evans
Cannonball Adderley
Arthur Lee
Woody Shaw
Bill Charlap
Al Cohn & Dexter Gordon
Steve Harley
Frank Butler
Bill Evans Trio
Bill Evans
Bill Evans
Art Farmer & Bill Evans
Bill Evans
Richard Fairhurst & John Taylor
Bill Evans Trio
