Bill Evans Trio - Live At Casale Monferrato Disc 1 And Disc 2

Album: Live At Casale Monferrato Disc 1

Styles: Piano Jazz 

Year: 2015

File: MP3@320K/s

Time: 42:23

Size: 97,8 MB

Art: Front

(4:52)  1. Re: Person I Knew

(6:46)  2. Midnight Mood

(4:56)  3. Polka Dots and Moonbeams

(3:58)  4. Theme From MASH

(6:09)  5. A Sleepin' Bee

(5:51)  6. I Do It for Your Love

(9:48)  7. My Romance

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Album: Live At Casale Monferrato Disc 2

Time: 50:33
Size: 116,6 MB

( 3:13)  1. Noelle's Theme
( 6:43)  2. I Loves You Porgy
( 6:37)  3. Up with The Lark
( 5:26)  4. Turn out The Stars
( 5:10)  5. Five
( 4:22)  6. Spring Is Here
(15:21)  7. Nardis
( 3:37)  8. But Beautiful

Casale Monferrato is a town and commune in the Piedmont region of Northwest Italy, which is part of the province of Alessandria. It is situated about 60 km east of Turin on the right bank of the Po, where the river runs at the foot of the Montferrato hills. Beyond the river lies the vast plain of the Po valley. The pianist played there with his last trio, which included the aforementioned Marc Johnson and Joe LaBarbera, who were both very young musicians. According to LaBarbera, the pressure of playing with the celebrated Bill Evans fell mostly on the trio’s bassist, who always had the shadow of the late Scott LaFaro looming over him: “My opinion was that the only stigma placed on a member of Bill’s trio was on the bass player, because of Scott’s legacy. Bill had great drummers over the years, but they never shaped what the trio was doing the way Scott did.

I wanted to be Scott LaFaro, though, I wanted to have that thing going with Bill in every possible way, to have some of that thing for me. I found out later that Bill had no preconceived ideas of what you should do. His bass preferences, for instance, were as diverse as Scott and Percy Heath. He definitely was not looking for people to emulate his earlier groups.” This release presents a beautiful never before released complete live performance by the last incarnation of the Bill Evans Trio. Taped in Italy just a few months before the pianist’s untimely death, its highlights include beautiful solo piano versions of Michel Legrand’s “Noelle’s Theme” and George Gershwin’s “I Loves You Porgy”.https://jazzmessengersblog.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/all-tracks-previously-uni/

Personnel: Bill Evans -  piano;  Marc Johnson - Bass;  Joe LaBarbera - Drums

Live At Casale Monferrato Disc 1, Disc 2

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