Stone classic BE, recorded live at The Village Vanguard in New York on June 25, 1961. With Scott LaFaro — ten days before his death in a car accident — and Paul Motian.
Giddily lovely ballads from 1962, with Chuck Israels taking over from Scott LaFaro.
That’s Nico on the cover.
A newly-discovered recording of a live performance by the Trio, with Eddie Gómez playing bass and Eliot Zigmund drums, on June 20, 1975, at Oil Can Harry’s, Vancouver, Canada.
His trio with Chuck Israels and Larry Bunker, performing live at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in early March, in the selection broadcast by WBGO-FM and PBS-TV later that month. Properly restored and remastered.
His two Riverside masterpieces Sunday At The Village Vanguard and Waltz For Debby.
The music sounds better than ever after Ezzthetics’ restoration-work, which removes the accustomed breaks between tracks, so that the concerts unfold continuously and vividly, laced with crowd chatter and clinking glass, and all. You feel like you’re there in the Village Vanguard, in 1961, enraptured. Evans is exquisitely soulful throughout, and the improvisatory trio interplay is famously stunning: check My Man’s Gone Now, featuring Scott LaFaro.
It’s a scorcher. Unmissable.