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BILL EVANS - SUNDAY AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD *Hybrid SACD*

Sunday at the Village Vanguard (and Waltz for Debby, its companion album) is one of the most important piano trio albums in history and a desert-island choice among many musicians. It marks the final appearanceof bassist Scott LaFaro with Evans and drummer PaulMotian.

LaFaro demonstrated a concept of jazz bassplaying here that shattered traditional limits to howinteractive and contrapuntal a bass line could bewithout totally abandoning its supportive function. Healso soloed with unparalleled imagination and technicalfacility.

The album also showed how Evans had refinedan approach to solo improvisation in which the pulsewas not as obvious as it had been in swing and bopapproaches. And his extraordinarily high standardsrequired that each improvised melodic idea beextensively developed, resulting in more continuityand pacing than was common to any previous modernstyle. The influence of what LaFaro and Evans laid outhere was still being felt in the 1990s.

Track Listing:

1.Gloria's Step (take 2)
2.Gloria's Step (take 3)
3.My Man's Gone Now
4.Solar
5.Alice in Wonderland (take 2)
6.Alice in Wonderland (take 1)
7.All of You (take 2)
8.All of You (take 3)
9.Jade Visions (take 2)
10.Jade Visions (take 1)