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Bill Evans - The Complete Bill Evans On Verve (1997) {18 CD Set Verve 314 527 953-2 rec 1962-1969}
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© 1962-69, 1997 Verve / PolyGram | 314 527 953-2
Jazz / Post Bop / Modal Music / Piano

THE COMPLETE BILL EVANS ON VERVE is an 18-disc, 269-track box set featuring every track that Bill Evans recorded for Verve between 1962 and 1969, including 98 previously-unreleased tracks. It includes a 160-page, full-color book. THE COMPLETE BILL EVANS ON VERVE was nominated for a 1998 Grammy Award for Best Recording Package - Boxed and for Best Historical Album. The 18 CDs in this exhaustive set provide a comprehensive picture of Bill Evans from 1962 to 1969, a period when the pianist was both consolidating his fame and sometimes taking his music into untested waters, from unaccompanied piano to symphony orchestra. His work with multitracked solo piano, originally released as Conversations with Myself and the later Further Conversations with Myself, was the most remarkable new format for his introspective music. It gave Evans a way to be all the pianists he could be at once–combining densely chordal, harmonically oblique parts with surprising, rhythmic punctuation and darting, exploratory runs.

Max Roach & Stan Levey - Drummin' The Blues (1957) {Liberty Japan TOCJ-9490, Mini LP rel 2003}
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© 1957, 2003 Liberty Records / Toshiba-EMI Japan | TOCJ-9490
Jazz / Bebop / Drums

When Howard Rumsey transitioned from Max Roach to Stan Levey at the Lighthouse, inevitable comparisons arose from the musicians on the bandstand and the fans in the audience. "Stan was a very simple, basic drummer," said saxophonist Bud Shank, "as opposed to Max, who was complex. But they both achieved the same purpose. They swung like hell." Drummer Don Lamond offered his take: "I loved Max. He was marvelous. But he could sometimes get a little erratic for my tastes. Stan just flows. He's smooth."

The Bill Evans Trio - Moon Beams (1962) {OJC Remasters Complete Series rel 2012, item 21of33}
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© 1962, 2012 Riverside / Concord | 0888072337183
Jazz / Post Bop / Modal Music / Piano

Concord Music Group releases three new titles in its Original Jazz Classics Remasters series. Enhanced with 24-bit remastering by Joe Tarantino, bonus tracks on each release (some previously unissued), and new liner notes to provide historical context to the originally released material, the series showcases pivotal recordings of the past several decades by artists whose influence on the jazz tradition continues to reverberate among jazz musicians and audiences well into the 21st Century.

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