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Michael Fremer | Feb 28, 2011 | 1 comments

Album Reviews

Bill Evans 1968 Backed By Gomez and DeJohnette

Michael Fremer | Oct 01, 2010 | 0 comments

You could argue the advisability of naming a sophomore effort Everybody Digs Bill Evans but today it’s clear that everybody in fact does, or still does depending on your feelings about that second album’s title.

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Bill Evans Trio '64 Brought A Light Touch to a Dark Time

Michael Fremer | Oct 01, 2021 | 17 comments

The gentle, introspective Bill Evans Trio of The Village Vanguard sessions that produced Sunday At the Village Vanguard and Waltz For Debby yielded two years later to the somewhat more rhythmically assertive trio heard on this December 18th, 1963 Webster Hall recording released early in 1964.

The late bassist Scott LaFaro’s friend Gary

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The result is a first for Frisell—a trio recording

Peacock replaced him in the trio with Paul Motian continuing on drums. Though no less cerebral and harmonically tuned in than was LaFaro, Peacock brought to the group a faster, more aggressive rhythmic style punctuated with nimble staccato runs. More tapping of the toes and less tugging at the heart.

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Letters to the Editor

Bill Evans Box and Separates Michael Fremer | views-field-created"> Aug 01, 2012 | 9 comments

A couple of years ago I started getting in to vinyl. I’m young enough that I fell in love with music when it was still being produced on vinyl.

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Album Reviews

Bill Evans Jim Hall "Undercurrent" Equals Sublime Music Making Michael Fremer | views-field-created"> Jul 17, 2013 | 10 comments

Sublime music making of the highest order despite the "shock value" cover, the collaboration between pianist Bill Evans and guitarist Jim Hall, who at 82 is still performing produced two albums of enduring beauty and quiet grace

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Bill Evans Live Set Issued For First Time Michael Fremer | views-field-created"> Aug 14, 2012 | 3 comments

Over the past few years, jazz fans have been treated to some astonishing, heretofore unreleased treasures. Unlike in the rock world, where such finds, along with “bonus tracks” usually tell you why they weren’t released in the first place (with Bob Dylan being a notable exception), these jazz releases have felt like un-mined diamonds, only occasionally in the rough.

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Album Reviews

Bill Evans The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961 Michael Fremer | views-field-created"> Dec 09, 2014 | 9 comments

If you already own Sunday at The Village Vanguard and Waltz For Debby you have two album's worth of material from that magical afternoon and evening of June 25, 1961 that the producer Orrin Keepnews deemed worthy of releasing.

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Bill Evans’ “ The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings 1961” Coming From Concord Music Group Michael Fremer | views-field-created"> Oct 22, 2014 | First Published: Oct 22, 2014 | 51 comments

This November 11th Concord Music Group will release a four 180g LP box set The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings 1961”. As all fans of Waltz For Debby and Sunday at The Village Vanguard well know, the two LP’s worth of material were culled from afternoon and evening performances on Sunday June 25th 1961 and represented a heavily edited version of what transpired that eventful day—days before 25 year old bassist Scott LaFaro died in a car accident.

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Bill Frisell's Valentine Gets to the Heart of the Musical and Sonic Matter Michael Fremer | views-field-created"> Aug 25, 2020 | 8 comments

Last year, producer Lee Townsend brought guitar-great Bill Frisell’s trio, fresh off the road and shortly after concluding two weeks at The Village Vanguard where almost 60 years ago another famous trio made an indelible record or two, into Tucker Martine’s Portland, Oregon studio for three days of recording.

with long time accompanists, bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Rudy Royston that is simultaneously densely packed with musical ideas and yet throughout, window wide open to the spaces between the notes.

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Interviews

Bill Porter Plays Favorites- An Elvis Presley Recording Session and More Michael Fremer | views-field-created"> Dec 31, 2005 | 1 comments

BP: I didn't pull out all the live recordings I've done. This is Homer and Jethro from 1962. Now at all the live recordings at RCA, Victor went to extreme lengths to modify the tape machines to increase the signal-to- noise ratio. And I copied some of those same principles in the studio back in Nashville. And primarily, it's putting in low noise resistors-everything is tube amplified, of course-in the front end and changing to a high-quality capacitor. So they usually were able to get the S/N ratio about 10dB better. You were telling me a while ago that you couldn't hear any hiss on my recordings. That's one of the reasons. And also you're not hearing third and fourth generations on my recordings. I didn't let them out the door that way.

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