Bill Evans (Piano) - The Complete Fantasy Recordings (1973-1980) [Box]

Artist:

Evans, Bill (Piano)

UPC:

025218101226

See Also:

Ellington, Duke Gillespie, Dizzy Tatum, Art Parker, Charlie (Sax) Herbie Mann - Nirvana Bill Evans (Piano)/Jim Hall - Intermodulation Bill Evans (Piano)/Jim Hall - Undercurrent [Remaster] Herbie Mann - Peace Pieces Marian McPartland/Bill Evans (Piano) - Piano Jazz With Bill Evans Tony Bennett/Bill Evans (Piano) - The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album: Expanded Edition [11/7] Tony Bennett/Bill Evans (Piano) - Complete Sessions [4/14] * Art Farmer & Bill Evans - Modern Art (Incl. 9 Bonus Tracks) (Import)

Description:

BILL EVANS: THE COMPLETE FANTASY RECORDINGS contains material recorded for Fantasy between 1973 and 1979, closely preceding his untimely death in 1980. Over 10 and-a-half hours of club, concert and studio recordings, plus a previously unreleased 1976 Paris concert. Disc 9 is an hour-long interview done by Marian McPartland for National Public Radio in 1978 with Bill at the piano. This set comes with a 32 page booklet with an essay by Gene Lees, notes on the sessions by Helen Keane and photos of Evans during the 70s.
Personnel: Bill Evans (piano); Tony Bennett (vocals); Lee Konitz (alto saxophone); Warne Marsh, Harold Land (tenor saxophone); Kenny Burrell (guitar); Eddie Gomez, Ray Brown (bass); Marty Morrell, Philly Joe Jones, Eliot Zigmund (drums).
Producers: Helen Keane, Orrin Keepnews, Andre Francis, Dick Phipps.
Compilation producer: Helen Keane.
Engineers include: Kenchi Handa, Jim Stern, Michael De Lugg.
Includes liner notes by Gene Lees and Helen Keane.
Digitally remastered by Kirk Felton (Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California).
The late Bill Evans was surely one of the finest jazz pianists ever. Few artists of any genre could match the level of quality-with-quantity of this legendary musician. Evans was not only the consummate jazz pianist, with incredible technique (classical pianist Glenn Gould admired him) and legendary lyricism, but a quiet innovator as well. There probably isn`t a jazz pianist that values lyrical, swinging qualities that doesn`t have a bit of Evans in him or her.
This nine-CD set collects all the recordings for the Fantasy label--a time period ranging from 1973 through 1978. The tracks feature Evans unaccompanied, in duo, trio and rarely-heard quintet formats, as well as the complete album he did in 1975 with Tony Bennet. This is a superb collection of some of the best piano jazz recorded not only in the `70s, but in the history of the music. Jazz fans and fans of good piano (any genre) should save up for this one.

Track Listing:

DISC 1:

1. Mornin` Glory
2. Up With the Lark
3. Yesterday I Heard the Rain
4. My Romance
5. When Autumn Comes
6. T.T.T.T. (Twelve Tone Tune Two)
7. Hullo Bolinas
8. Gloria`s Step
9. On Green Dolphin Street

DISC 2:

1. Up With the Lark
2. Quiet Now
3. Gloria`s Step
4. When in Rome
5. It Amazes Me
6. Since We Met
7. Midnight Mood
8. See Saw
9. Elsa
10. Sareen Jurer
11. Time Remembered
12. Turn Out The Stars / But Beautiful

DISC 3:

1. Re: Person I Knew
2. Sugar Plum
3. Alfie
4. T.T.T.
5. Excerpt From Dolphin Dance / Very Early
6. 34 Skidoo
7. Emily
8. Are You All the Things
9. Invitation
10. Blue Serge
11. Show-Type Tune
12. Nature of Things, The

DISC 4:

1. Are You All the Things
2. Face Without a Name, A
3. Falling Grace
4. Hi Lili, Hi Lo
5. Gone With the Wind
6. Saudade Do Brasil
7. My Foolish Heart
8. Touch of Your Lips, The
9. Some Other Time
10. When in Rome
11. We`ll Be Together Again
12. Young and Foolish
13. Waltz For Debby
14. But Beautiful
15. Days of Wine and Roses

DISC 5:

1. Elsa
2. Milano
3. Venutian Rhythm Dance
4. Django
5. But Beautiful
6. Minha (All Mine)
7. Driftin`
8. I Love You
9. Summer Knows, The
10. In a Sentimental Mood
11. Touch of Your Lips, The
12. In Your Own Sweet Way
13. Make Someone Happy

DISC 6:

1. All of You
2. What Kind of Fool Am I
3. People
4. Since We Met
5. But Not For Me / Isn`t It Romantic / The Opener
6. Sweet Dulcinea
7. Martina
8. Second Time Around
9. Child Is Born, A
10. Bass Face
11. Nobody Else But Me

DISC 7:

1. Sugar Plum - (previously unissued)
2. Time Remembered - (previously unissued)
3. 34 Skidoo - (previously unissued)
4. T.T.T.T. - (previously unissued)
5. Turn Out the Stars - (previously unissued)
6. Someday My Prince Will Come - (prev. unis.)
7. Minha (All Mine) - (previously unissued)
8. All of You - (previously unissued)
9. Waltz For Debby - (previously unissued)
10. Eiderdown
11. Ev`ry Time We Say Goodbye
12. Pensativa

DISC 8:

1. Speak Low
2. When Will I Fall in Love
3. Night and Day
4. I Will Say Goodbye
5. Dolphin Dance
6. Seascape
7. Peau Douce
8. Nobody Else But Me
9. I Will Say Goodbye - (take 2)
10. Opener, The
11. Quiet Light
12. House Is Not a Home, A
13. Orson`s Theme

DISC 9:

1. Marian McPartland`s Piano Jazz Interview / Kaleidoscope (Theme) / Waltz For Debby / All Of You / In Your Own Sweet Way / The Touch Of Your Lips / Reflections In D / I Love You / Days Of Wine And Roses / This Is All I Ask / While We`re Young

Album Information

Release Date:

06/06/1989

Type:

Boxed Set

Genre:

Jazz Instrument

Subgenre:

Piano

Label:

Fantasy

Catalog Number:

1012

Original Release Year:

1989

# of Discs:

9

SPARS Coding:

AAD

Studio/Live:

Mixed

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

Guest Artist:

Eddie Gomez; Lee Konitz; Tony Bennett; Warne Marsh; Harold Land; Philly Joe Jones; Kenny Burrell; Ray Brown

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