Bill Evans: The Quintessence 1956-1960

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Label: FREMEAUX
Catalog: FA290
Format: CD

Bill Evans

"DIRECTION ARTISTIQUE : ALAIN GERBER AVEC DANIEL NEVERS ET ALAIN TERCINET

CD 1 (1956-1958) - BILL EVANS TRIO (SEPT. 1956) : WALTZ FOR DEBBY (B.EVANS) o FIVE (B.EVANS) o I LOVE YOU (C.PORTER) - GEORGE RUSSELL AND HIS ORCHESTRA (17/10/1956 & 10/06/1957) CONCERTO FOR BILLY THE KID (G.RUSSELL) o ALL ABOUT ROSIE (G.RUSSELL) - HAL MCKUSICKSEXTET (7/04/1058) : STRATUSPHUNK (G.RUSSELL) - JULIAN ADDERLEY QUINTET (1/07/1958) : NARDIS (TAKE 5) (M.DAVIS) o THE MILES DAVIS SEXTET AT NEWPORT (3/07/1958) : FRAN-DANCE (M.DAVIS) o ART FARMER QUINTET (SEPT. 1958) : LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE (J.VAN HEUSEN-J.BURKE) - BILL EVANS TRIO (15/12/1958) : SOME OTHER TIME (BERNSTEIN-COMDEN-GREEN) o YOUNG AND FOOLISH (HARWITT-HAGUE) o PEACE PIECE (B. EVANS) CD2 (1958-1960) - CHET BAKER QUINTET (DEC. 1958) : EARLY MORNING MOOD (C. BAKER) o BILL EVANS TRIO (19/01/1959) : ON GREEN DOLPHIN STREET (WASHINGTON-KAPER) o MY HEART STOOD STILL (D. ROGERS-L.HART) - THE MILES DAVIS QUINTET (2/03/1959) : BLUE IN GREEN (M.DAVIS) - GEORGE RUSSLL AND HIS ORCHESTRA (24/03/1959) : EAST SIDE MEDLEY : AUTUMN IN NEW YORK (V.DUKE) / HOW ABOUT YOU ? (R.FREED-B.LANE) - BILL EVANS TRIO (26/12/1959) : AUTUMN LEAVES (LES FEUILLES MORTES) (J.KOSMA-J.PREVERT-J.MERCER) o SRPING IS HERE (R.RODGERS-L.HART) o PERI'S SCOPE (B.EVANS) o WHATI IS THIS THING CALLED LOVE ? (C.PORTER) o BLUE IN GREEN (TAKE 3) (M.DAVIS) - GEORGE RUSSELL AND HIS ORCHESTRA (1960) : CHROMATIC UNIVERSE I (G.RUSSELL) o CHROMATIC UNIVERSE II (G.RUSSELL) o CHROMATIC UNIVERSE III (G.RUSSELL)"

"The manner of Bill Evans is no volatile substance: it is ventilated, ethereal. It is not vapid, but exquisite. Not precious, but refined. Cerebral? No! Meditative. Evanescent? On the con trary: what is insinuated by it leaves a lasting imprint on our awareness." Alain GERBER