Bill Evans Recordings

This lavish four-LP reissue celebrates the 40th anniversary of these monumental sessions by two of the great understated jazz interpreters.

                                      
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        10 Nov 2013
    
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        Bill Evans Trio: How My Heart Sings!
    
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        26 Sep 2013

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This lavish four-LP reissue celebrates the 40th anniversary of these monumental sessions by two of the great understated jazz interpreters.

The first record by the great pianist after the death of his bass player, Scott LaFaro, reissued from 1962—on its 50th birthday.

Americana man Bill Evans is the kind of man you want to know.

Bill Evans further explores his self-invented soulgrass genre with Dragonfly.

If the success of a jazz recording comes not out of what it means but how it reaches you, how much it opens up to you and lets you feel it, then Top of the Gate succeeds.

While jazz’s complexity cannot be denied, much of the music remains accessible to all. The trick is just finding the right tunes and artists, those who have a universal appeal beyond the scope of the typical, admittedly somewhat limited, jazz audience.

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