![]() ![]() Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings by Peter Petinger (2002).Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern by Jayna Brown (2009). ![]() American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950 by Alec Wilder (1972).America's Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs…by Philip Furia, Michael L.Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era by Ken Emerson (2006).Alec Wilder Song Collection, The (2007).A Song in the Dark: The Birth of the Musical Film by Richard Barrios (1995).“ Bill Evans - Bill Evans Trio: Sunday At the Village Vanguard” - by Ross Porter published in the May-June 2012 issue of dig! magazine He had also produced or co-produced three earlier Evans studio albums (1956-1959). These were Portrait in Jazz, released in 1960, and Explorations, released in February 1961. * Orrin Keepnews had previously produced the sessions for the two studio albums recorded by this trio, the first Bill Evans Trio. Sunday was chosen because the band would perform twice on that day, a matinee set and an evening set. With hindsight, Keepnews seems bemused at his youthful recklessness as he recognizes that, while at the time he believed it prudent to record them again* before the band fell apart, he must not have had a great sense of urgency, since he decided - “I mean, talk about living dangerously” - to record on the final Sunday of a three week gig at the Vanguard. Regarding the live sessions recorded at the Village Vanguard, he recalls a plan for the trio to do twelve numbers, including “a lot of extra material,” with the aim of reducing the recordings of “two full shots at the band” (afternoon and evening sets) to a “six tune album.” The 22 musical tracks of the 26 tracks on the complete sessions album include 13 titles, with three versions of two titles, five numbers performed twice, and six performed just once. Topics touched upon include the challenge of producing records “way back in the primitive days,” the special rapport between Bill Evans and Scott LaFaro, the producer’s suspicion (immediately prior to the project) that the trio might not last much longer, as Evans and LaFaro had begun to “pick at each other,” and the effect of Scott LaFaro’s death, soon after the recording date, upon Bill Evans. In the video, Sunday at the Village Vanguard producer Orrin Keepnews talks about the members of the first Bill Evans Trio and recounts the planning and recording of the album. (above) From the description of the video by the provider:īill Evans’ 1961 Riverside recording “Sunday At The Village Vanguard,” featured in the 19th chapter of “Orrin Keepnews, Producer.” This episode features the famed Jazz producer’s memories of Bill Evans’ 1961 Riverside Records recording. The bottom photo appears on the back of the Sunday at the Village Vanguard album sleeve with the caption “The trio, between sets, in the back room at the Vanguard.” The presence of Orrin Keepnews, with an ever-present cigarette tucked in the corner of his mouth, in two photos suggests that the photographs may have been taken on or about Sunday, 25 June 1961, the day of the recording. (above) Bill Evans Trio, Village Vanguard, c.1961, photographs by Steve Schapiro. ![]() They may be played sequentially as a playlist or by selecting any individual track.
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