Bill Evans - From Left to Right (1970)

Artist - Bill Evans
Album - From Left to Right
Genre - Post Bop
Release Date: Dec 1979
Recording Date: 1969-1970
Label - MGM
Quality - mp3, 320
Size: 75 Mb
Total time: 52:12

Предлагаю вашему вниманию диск Bill Evans. Должен честно предупредить: критике он не понравился. Причина проста: диск записан в стиле "easy listening". Хотя - по-моему - вполне приятно слушается.

Track Listings:
1. What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?
2. I'm All Smiles
3. Why Did I Choose You?
4. Soiree
5. Dolphin-Before, The
6. Dolphin-After, The
7. Lullaby For Helene
8. Like Someone In Love
9. Children's Play Song
10. What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life? - (quartet)
11. Why Did I Choose You? - (quartet)
12. Soiree - (alternate take)
13. Lullaby For Helene - (quartet)

This 1998 reissue contains four bonus tracks not on the original release.

Personnel: Bill Evans (acoustic & electric pianos); Mickey Leonard (arranger, conductor); Harvey Estrin (flute, reeds); Greorge Triffon (trumpet, flugelhorn); John D. Messner, Wayne Andre, Mickey Gravine (trombone); Paul Falise (bass trombone); Ray Alonge, Joseph DeAngelis (French horn); Donald Ashworth, Romeo Penque, Joseph Soldo, William Slapin (reeds); David Schwartz (violin, viola); Karen Jones, Leo Kahn, David Nadien, George Ockner, Raoul Poliakin, Tosha Samaroff (violin); Norman Forrest, Alfred V. Brown (viola); Seymour Barab, George Ricci (cello); Sam Brown (guitar); Eddie Gomez (bass); John Beal (electric bass); Marty Morell, Sol Gubin, Gary Chester (drums).

Principally recorded at A&R Studios, RCA Studios, Media Sound and Century Sound, New York, New York in 1969 & 1970. Originally released on MGM (4723). Includes liner notes by Michael (Mickey) Leonard, Harold Rhodes and Helen Keane.

Digitally remastered using 22-bit technology by Suha Gur (Polygram Studios). This is part of Verve's By Request series.

Продолжение текста / More text
In the '60s the jazz pianist Bill Evans would occasionally record an orchestral "easy listening" session to pay the bills, with predictably mediocre results. But FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, while certainly easy on the ears, is also one of Evans' most intriguing "lost" records, brought to us courtesy of Verve's winning "By Request" series. The novelty is that Evans plays both Fender Rhodes and acoustic piano simultaneously in real time, trading off themes and improvs with deliberative taste and, of course, rare skill. The sessions were produced by Evans' long-time, protective manager Helen Keane, so there was little danger of "selling out."

Unobtrusively arranged by Michael Leonard, this 1969 release resembles nothing so much as famed bossa nova composer Antonio Carlos Jobim's series of shimmering instrumental albums with arranger Claus Ogerman, even without those gently relentless rhythms driving every tune. Still, the highlight of this album is the dancing two-part "The Dolphin - Before & After," a non-Jobim bossa nova which allows Evans his only extended improvisations.


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