Bill Evans Trio - Moon Beams (1962)
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Genre: Jazz / post-bop, ballads
Audio CD: 1992
Original Release Date: May 17, 1962Time: 39:19
Label: Riverside/OJCCduniverse.com:
Bassist Scott LaFaro's death in the early summer of 1961, just 10 days after the Bill Evans Trio'striumphant Village Vanguard engagement was a devastating personal and musical, loss to the pianist,after which he took nearly a year off from recording or playing in public. (The Vanguard performances canbe heard on SUNDAY AT THE VILLAGE, WALTZ FOR DEBBY and AT THE VANGUARD.) It fell to anotherbassist, Chuck Israel, to bring Evans out and re-establish the Bill Evans Trio as a going concern.Possessed of a warm tone, Israels' essentially supportive playing with the Trio made for a studiedcontrast with the brashly virtuosic LaFaro, which was not necessarily a bad thing.As if to make up for lost time, the newly reconstituted trio recorded two albums' worth of material in Juneand May of 1962. MOONBEAMS is the "softer" of the two and introduced two graceful Evan's originals,"Re: Person I Knew" (an anagram of producer Orrin Keepnews's name) and the lyrical fugue "Very Early."While any of the early Riverside albums make an excellent introduction to Bill Evans, MOONBEAMS isperhaps the most exquisitely romantic of the bunch, much like Coltrane's BALLADS in this respect.AMG:
Moonbeams was the first recording Bill Evans made after the death of his musical right arm, bassist ScottLaFaro. Indeed, in LaFaro, Evans found a counterpart rather than a sideman, and the music they madetogether over four albums showed it. Bassist Chuck Israels from Cecil Taylor and Bud Powell's bands tookhis place in the band with Evans and drummer Paul Motian and Evans recorded the only possible responseto the loss of LaFaro — an album of ballads. The irony on this recording is that, despite material that wasso natural for Evans to play, particularly with his trademark impressionistic sound collage style, is thatother than as a sideman almost ten years before, he has never been more assertive than on Moonbeams.It is as if, with the death of LaFaro, Evans' safety net was gone and he had to lead the trio alone. Andhe does first and foremost by abandoning the impressionism in favor of a more rhythmic and muscularapproach to harmony. The set opens with an Evans original, "RE: Person I Knew," a modal study thatlooks back to his days he spent with Miles Davis. There is perhaps the signature jazz rendition of"Stairway to the Stars," with its loping yet halting melody line and solo that is heightened by Motian'sgorgeous brush accents in the bridge section. Other selections are so well paced and sequenced therecord feels like a dream, with the lovely stuttering arpeggios that fall in "If You Could See Me Now," andthe cascading interplay between Evan's chords and Israel's punctuation in "It Might As Well Be Spring," atune Evans played for the rest of his life. The set concludes with a waltz in "Very Early," that is played atthat proper tempo with great taste and delicate elegance throughout, there is no temptation by therhythm section to charge it up or to elongate the harmonic architecture by means of juggling intervals.Moonbeams was a startling return to the recording sphere and a major advancement in his developmentas a leader.
Personnel, Bill Evans Trio:Bill Evans (piano)
Chuck Israels (bass)
Paul Motian (drums)Recorded at Sound Makers, Inc, New York, New York on May 17 & 29 and June 2, 1962. Originallyreleased on Riverside (9428).Tracks:
1. Re: Person I Knew (B.Evans) 5:42
2. Polka Dots And Moonbeams (Burke-Van Heusen) 4:57
3. I Fall In Love Too Easily (Styne-Cahn) 2:39
4. Stairway To The Stars (Parish-Malneck-Signorelli) 4:48
5. If You Could See Me Now (Dameron-Sigman) 4:27
6. It Might As Well Be Spring (Rodgers-Hammerstein) 5:59
7. In Love In Vain (Kern-Robin) 4:59
8. Very Early (B.Evans) 4:58Code:http://[CENSORED].com/files/84553183/be1065mb.part1.rar
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