BILL EVANS TRIO - Moon Beams - Vinyl (180 gram vinyl LP with obi-strip)
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BILL EVANS TRIO
Moon Beams
Concord
180 gram vinyl LP with obi-strip Cat: 726626 2Rel: 2 Jun 25
Jazz Side 1 - Track 1. Person I Knew Side 1 - Track 2. Polka Dots & Moonbeams Side 1 - Track 3. I Fall In Love Too Easily Side 1 - Track 4. Stairway To The Stars Side 2 - Track 1. If You Could See Me Now Side 2 - Track 2. It Might As Well Be Spring Side 2 - Track 3. In Love In Wain Side 2 - Track 4. Very Early
The New Jersey-born pianist returns to the studio here for the first time since the sudden loss of bassist Scott LaFaro, whose death in 1961 marked a devastating rupture for one of jazz's most intuitive trios. Now joined by Chuck Israels on bass, Evans leads with a newfound clarityiless conversational, more contemplative. Recorded in 1962, this was the group's first step into a quieter but no less daring phase. 'Re: Person I Knew' (an anagram of producer Orrin Keepnews) sets the tone: ghostly, elliptical, and harmonically dense. 'I Fall in Love Too Easily' and 'Polka Dots and Moonbeams' drift by in breathy half-light, while 'Very Early', a waltz penned by Evans, closes the set with delicate finality. In the absence of LaFaro's dancing counterlines, Evans doesn't fill the space, but lets it speak. The result is a study in restraint: American post-bop pared down to its emotional core. Not a debut, nor a reinvention, this is a quiet reckoning and a beautifully unresolved response to loss.
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