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The Complete Fantasy Recordings  Bill
EvansOJC [Fantasy] 9 CDs £84.50 [POST FREE : UK only] This CD compilation presents the complete body of work produced by Bill Evans for the Fantasy label during the seven-year period closely preceding his untimely death in 1980. The set contains 98 selections recorded by the influential jazz pianist between 1973 and 1979 in club, concert or studio settings, plus a previously unreleased 1976 Paris concert recording. Also included is a fascinating hour-long interview with Evans at the piano, conducted by Marian McPartland and originally broacast on National Public Radio in 1978. In these solo, duo, trio and quintet performances with Tony Bennett, Ray Brown, Kenny Burrell, Eddie Gomez, Philly Joe Jones, Lee Konitz, Harold Land, Warne Marsh, Marty Morell and Eliot Zigmund, Bill Evans is revealed as a masterful artist at the peak of his powers. The box conatains also a lavish 32-page booklet with an essay by Gene Lees, notes on the sessions by producer Helen Keane, and photographs of Evans during the 1970s. Disc 1 Mornin' Glory, Up with the Lark, Yesterday I Heard the Rain, My Romance, When Autumn Comes, T.T.T.T. (Twelve Tone Tune Two), Hullo Bolinas, Gloria's Step, On Green Dolphin Street Disc 2 Up with the Lark, Quiet Now, Gloria's Step, When in Rome, It Amazes Me, Since We Met, Midnight Mood, See-Saw, Elsa, Sareen Jurer, Time Remembered, Turn Out the Stars, But Beautiful Disc 3 Re: Person I Knew, Sugar Plum, Alfie, T.T.T., Excerpt from Dolphin Dance/Very Early, 34 Skidoo, Emily, Are You All the Things, Invitation, Blue Serge, Show-Type Tune, The Nature of Things Disc 4 Are You All the Things, A Face Without a Name, Falling Grace; Hi Lili, Hi Lo; Gone with the Wind, Saudade do Brasil, My Foolish Heart, The Touch of Your Lips, Some Other Time, When in Rome, We'll Be Together Again, Young and Foolish, Waltz for Debby, But Beautiful, Days of Wine and Roses Disc 5 Elsa, Milano, Venutian Rhythm Dance, Django, But Beautiful, Minha (All Mine), Driftin', I Love You, The Summer Knows, In a Sentimental Mood, The Touch of Your Lips, In Your Own Sweet Way, Make Someone Happy Disc 6 All of You, What Kind of Fool Am I, People, Since We Met; But Not for Me/Isn't It Romantic/The Opener; Sweet Dulcinea, Martina, Second Time Around, A Child Is Born, Bass Face, Nobody Else But Me Disc 7 Sugar Plum*, Time Remembered*, 34 Skidoo*, T.T.T.T.*, Turn Out the Stars*, Someday My Prince Will Come*, Minha (All Mine)*, All of You*, Waltz for Debby*, Eiderdown, Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye, Pensativa Disc 8 Speak Low, When I Fall in Love, Night and Day, I Will Say Goodbye, Dolphin Dance, Seascape, Peau Douce, Nobody Else But Me, I Will Say Goodbye (take 2), The Opener, Quiet Light, A House Is Not a Home, Orson's Theme Disc 9 Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz Interview (Kaleidoscope [Theme], Waltz for Debby, All of You, In Your Own Sweet Way, The Touch of Your Lips, Reflections in D, I Love You, Days of Wine and Roses, This Is All I Ask, While We're Young) * Previously unissued |
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see also The Complete Riverside Recordings
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