“Haunted Heart: The Legendary Riverside Studio Recordings” features every studio recording made by the original Bill Evans Trio. The collection pairs the trio’s two studio albums — 1960’s “Portrait in ...
The car-crash death of bassist Scott LaFaro in July 1961 left Bill Evans despondent. Thrilled with the evolution of his conversational trio featuring LaFaro and Paul Motian on drums, Evans felt the ...
Four decades after his death, Evans remains part of the jazz conversation. A new anthology surveys records the jazz pianists made as leader, from 1956 until his death in 1980. This is FRESH AIR. Bill ...
As the early 1970s unfolded, rock became a viable album and entertainment business. National record chains sprang up, rock bands filled arenas and FM radio was ruled by young DJs spinning entire sides ...
Jazz pianist Bill Evans (seen here as he appears on the cover of the 2016 legacy release Some Other Time) is the subject of a new documentary called Bill Evans: Time Remembered. (Courtesy of the ...
From originals such as his signature “Waltz for Debby” and early masterwork “Five,” to collaborations with genre luminaries Miles Davis and Stan Getz, the mammoth Everybody Still Digs Bill Evans box ...
You know exactly where “3 Shades of Blue” is heading from the first page, even from the front cover. You foresee the point at which its three shades will blend and blur and, for an incandescent moment ...
Two Fine New Vinyl Releases By Chet Baker and Bill Evans Share Scandinavian Roots. Many jazz fans seem to only focus on Chet Baker’s 1950s material when he was still young and beautiful and crooning ...
Craft Recordings’ OJC reissue of Moon Beams restores Bill Evans’ post-LaFaro classic with Kevin Gray’s AAA mastering and beautifully quiet 180-gram vinyl.