Bill Evans - Sunday at the Village Vanguard
Riverside, 1961
Evans' playing on Miles Davis' Kind of Blue gave him some immediate cred in my mind, so I came into this one with fewer White Boy Jazz suspiciousness than I did with someone like, say, Dave Brubeck (note: Jazz is none of my business). Hell of a piano player. It's another one of those great midcentury live albums that I was just talking about (see: Muddy Waters at Newport). You can practically feel the smoke-filled room and see the audience sipping cocktails. A smoke-filled room is both a nuisance and something I weirdly miss. The ambience it lends cannot be matched by a mere smoke machine either: You need to know you're going to have to wash your clothes twice before you can wear them again. I remember seeing Feist opening for the Kings of Convenience at the Bottleneck in early 2005 pre-Apple commercial and pre-indoor smoking ordinance in Lawrence and that set is one of my favorites I ever saw in the hundreds of concerts I went to in my college and post-college years. Sunday at the Village Vanguard is music built for smoke-filled rooms and a glass of scotch. I hate the bass solos but what're you gonna do (Note: Jazz is none of my business, take that with a grain of salt). Evans' piano playing is marvelous.
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