Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival
Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival | ||||
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Live album by Bill Evans | ||||
Released | 1968 (see 1968 in music) | |||
Recorded | June 15, 1968 | |||
Venue | Montreux Jazz Festival, Casino de Montreux, Switzerland | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 58:59 | |||
Label | Verve | |||
Producer | Helen Keane | |||
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Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival is a 1968 album by the American jazz pianist Bill Evans, recorded live at that year's Montreux Jazz Festival. The trio's performance on this album won them the 1969 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group.
Reception
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Writing for AllMusic, music critic Rovi Staff wrote the album "marks the beginning of stylistic changes for the legendary pianist. Only one year earlier, his At Town Hall release found his approach generally more introspective and brooding. In contrast, this set is more lively, playful, and experimental. ... He experiments more with harmonic dissonance and striking rhythmical contrasts, making this his most extroverted playing since his freshman release, New Jazz Conceptions."[1]
Track listing
- "Spoken Introduction" – 0:57
- "One for Helen" (Bill Evans) – 4:22
- "A Sleepin' Bee" (Harold Arlen, Truman Capote) – 6:05
- "Mother of Earl" (Earl Zindars) – 5:14
- "Nardis" (Miles Davis) – 8:23
- "Quiet Now" (Denny Zeitlin) – 6:26
- "I Loves You, Porgy" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) – 6:00
- "The Touch of Your Lips" (Ray Noble) – 4:45
- "Embraceable You" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 6:45
- "Some Day My Prince Will Come" (Frank Churchill, Larry Morey) – 6:08
- "Walkin' Up" (Evans) – 3:34
Personnel
- Bill Evans - piano
- Eddie Gómez - double bass
- Jack DeJohnette - drums
Legacy
Nardis in Track 5 was sampled by MF DOOM in "Raid" from his album, Madvillainy.[3]
Discography
References
- ^ a b Staff, Rovi. "Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved June 28, 2011.
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 457. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ "Madvillainy by Madvillain: Album Samples, Covers and Remixes". WhoSampled.
External links
- Jazz Discography Bill Evans Catalog
- Bill Evans Memorial Library
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albums
- New Jazz Conceptions
- Tenderly: An Informal Session
- Everybody Digs Bill Evans
- On Green Dolphin Street
- The Ivory Hunters
- Portrait in Jazz
- Know What I Mean?
- Explorations
- Nirvana
- Undercurrent
- Moon Beams
- How My Heart Sings!
- Interplay
- Empathy
- Loose Blues
- The Solo Sessions, Vol. 1
- The Solo Sessions, Vol. 2
- The Gary McFarland Orchestra
- Conversations With Myself
- Plays the Theme from The V.I.P.s and Other Great Songs
- Trio 64
- Stan Getz & Bill Evans
- Waltz for Debby
- Trio '65
- Bill Evans Trio with Symphony Orchestra
- Intermodulation
- A Simple Matter of Conviction
- Further Conversations with Myself
- Alone
- What's New
- From Left to Right
- Quiet Now
- The Bill Evans Album
- Living Time
- Eloquence
- Symbiosis
- Intuition
- The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album
- Alone (Again)
- Quintessence
- Together Again
- Crosscurrents
- I Will Say Goodbye
- You Must Believe in Spring
- New Conversations
- Affinity
- We Will Meet Again
albums
- Sunday at the Village Vanguard
- Waltz for Debby
- Time Remembered
- At Shelly's Manne-Hole
- Bill Evans at Town Hall
- The Bill Evans Trio "Live"
- California Here I Come
- Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival
- Jazzhouse
- You're Gonna Hear from Me
- Montreux II
- The Tokyo Concert
- Half Moon Bay
- Since We Met
- Re: Person I Knew
- But Beautiful
- Blue in Green: The Concert in Canada
- Montreux III
- Getting Sentimental
- Live in Buenos Aires 1979
- Homecoming
- The Paris Concert: Edition One
- The Paris Concert: Edition Two
- Turn Out the Stars: The Final Village Vanguard Recordings
- Letter to Evan
- Turn Out the Stars
- The Last Waltz: The Final Recordings
- Consecration: The Final Recordings Part 2
albums
- Piano Player
- "Waltz for Debby"
- "Funkallero"
- "Blue in Green"
- "Flamenco Sketches"
- "Time Remembered"
- "Peace Piece"
members
- Monty Budwig
- Larry Bunker
- Jack DeJohnette
- Eddie Gómez
- Chuck Israels
- Marc Johnson
- Philly Joe Jones
- Sam Jones
- Teddy Kotick
- Joe LaBarbera
- Scott LaFaro
- Michael Moore
- Marty Morell
- Paul Motian
- Gary Peacock
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