The Best Live Jazz Recording? Sunday at the Village Vanguard - Bill Evans
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Uploaded by JazzVideoGuy on Aug 26, 2008
Sunday at the Village Vanguard is a 1961 album by jazz pianist and composer Bill Evans. The album is routinely ranked as one of the best live jazz recordings of all time.
Sunday at the Village Vanguard was recorded live on June 25, 1961 at the Village Vanguard in New York City over five recorded sessions (2 matinee and 3 soiree). It is well remembered as the final performance by the Evans trio of the time, which included bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian. LaFaro was killed in a car accident ten days after the recording.
Evans and producer Orrin Keepnews reportedly selected the tracks for Sunday at the Village Vanguard to best feature LaFaro's masterful performance on bass, beginning and ending with two tracks (Gloria's Step and Jade Visions) written by LaFaro himself, and with all the others featuring solos by him. This album is routinely ranked as one of the best live jazz recordings of all time.
Additional material from the same day's performance was released in a second album Waltz for Debby (also 1961), as was other material in another LP Bill Evans - More From the Vanguard. The entire day's recordings were released in 2005 as The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961.
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Bill Evans the best musician of "classical jazz".
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BILL EL MEJOR PIANISTA DE TODOS LOS TIEMPOS
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This video went viral on New Zealand
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RIP paul
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had no idea this was scott and bill's last ever musical meeting
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The recording of Gloria's Step on Sunday at the Village Vanguard is one of the most amazing pieces of music I have ever heard and Evans is brilliant with it.
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I first got hip to Bill Evans when "Conversations With Myself" came out. Still have the album. He's been one of my favorites since. I read "How My Heart Sings" and this interview is another great nugget of info to have for this Bill Evans "Freak"
Thanks for posting!
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@mrfish4lyfe: I hadn't heard of Mr. Motian's death until I saw your note--thanks for informing us. I just went and read his obituary on The New York Times website. He was such a great innovator. I'm saddened that another great link to the illustrious history of Jazz has passed from the scene.
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arguably
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RIP Paul, Another legend gone :(
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whats playing at 5:49?
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Is the song in the first six seconds of this clip also Gloria's Step? Can't seem to match it up with what I've been seeing on YouTube.
norton2099 11 months ago 3
@norton2099 Know what i mean - Cannonball Adderley and BIll Evans
JazzVideoGuy 11 months ago 2
Is there any video that exists of Bill Evans, Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian?
utubuser10 2 years ago 11
Sadly, no.
JazzVideoGuy 2 years ago 3