Bill Evans

Artist:  Bill Evans
Birth Name:  William John Evans
Born:  August 16, 1929.  Plainfield, New Jersey, USA
Died:  September 15, 1980 (Aged 51).  New York City, New York, USA
Genre:  Jazz, Modal Jazz, Cool Jazz, Post Bop, Jazz Instrument, Piano Jazz
Occupation:  Musician, Composer, Arranger
Instruments:  Piano

Bill Evans was an American Jazz Pianist and Composer who mostly worked in a Trio setting.  He worked with bandleader and theorist George Russell.  In 1958, he joined Miles Davis's sextet, and recorded Kind Of Blue, the best-selling Jazz Album of All Time.  In 1959, he left the Miles Davis band and began his career as a leader with Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian.  In 1961, recording the highly acclaimed Sunday At The Village Vanguard and Waltz For Debby.  In 1963, he recorded Conversations With Myself, an innovative solo album.  He has become standards and has been played and recorded by many artists.  He was honored with 31 Grammy nominations and seven awards, and was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall Of Fame.

Title:  Sunday At The Village Vanguard (Limited Edition) (2018)
Genre:  Jazz, Modal Jazz, Cool Jazz, Post Bop, Jazz Instrument, Piano Jazz
Label:  Jazz Images
Rating:  *****

Tracks:

 1.  Gloria's Step  (6:07)
 2.  My Man's Gone Now  (6:21)
 3.  Solar  (8:48)
 4.  Alice In Wonderland  (8:32)
 5.  All Of You   (8:32)

Bonus Tracks:

 6.  Jade Visions  (4:06)
 7.  My Foolish Heart  (4:53)
 8.  Waltz For Debby  (6:53)
 9.  My Romance  (7:04)
10. Some Other Time  (4:58)
11. Milestones  (6:26)

Personnel:

Bill Evans:  Piano
Scott LaFaro:  Bass
Paul Motian:  Drums

Sunday At The Village Vanguard is the 1961 album by Bill Evans, originally released on October 1961 by Riverside Records, remastered and reissued on May 25, 2018 by Jazz Images, recorded live at the Village Vanguard, New York, June 25, 1961, featuring Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian.