Everybody Digs Bill Evans Trio ERC050M Electric Recording Co Mono Vinyl U.K.

$

720

“Preview Copy”. Played just a few times— #028. Everything included (“ERC” wrapping-paper as well). The record came with what appear like sleeve-sweeps (made during manufacturing), and some marks/flaws that cause surface noise  during the quieter playing tracks (3 tracks in total). I listened to it once using a Dynavector XV1S Mono cartridge on a VPI HRX turntable and it sounded great. You do here some surface noise during quiet tracks no ticks really or pops but I must say I have listened to many ERC recordings and none were dead quiet in my opinion.
I have also listened to the original Mono version of this  and this ERC LP sounds better. This sounds like you are listening to the original tape with some surface noise here and there. It was a very enjoyable record to listen to and in my opinion if the little bit of surface noise is missing than it doesn't sound like a record. I listened to the stereo ERC release and there was surface noise on the quite parts similar to the mono even though the record looked perfect. 
 

25 November 2019 by Electric Recording Co.

For the first time since the original Riverside release, ERC recreates “Everybody Digs Bill Evans” in true mono, from the dedicated mono master tapes.

Recorded in December 1958 at Reeves Sound Studios, New York shortly after he left Miles Davis’ group, “Everybody Digs” was the second album to feature Bill Evans as lead. It acts as a reminder of Evans’ trio playing before the celebrated “Sunday At The Village Vanguard” (1961). Instead of near-equal interaction by all three trio members, a supportive team of drummer Philly Joe Jones and bassist Sam Jones provides a non-intrusive backdrop for the featured performer, whose inventions are cast into bolder relief than ever. The silent spaces in the ballads are stark, inviting the listener to supply the missing thought or feeling evoked by the pianist’s pure conceptions; the accompaniment on the up-tempo tunes is a non-obtrusive temporal flow, leaving the floor wide open to the graceful moves of the featured performer. Most memorable is the hauntingly beautiful “Peace Piece” which was to become the template for Miles Davis’s “Flamenco Sketches” and has since become Evans’ most famous historical composition.