Bill Evans - The Complete Legendary Session with Chet Baker (Remastered) (1958-59) 2021

Исполнитель: Bill Evans
Альбом: The Complete Legendary Session with Chet Baker (Remastered)
Жанр: Jazz
Год: (1958-59) 2021
Страна: USA
Лейбл: Vintage Recordings
Формат: FLAC (tracks)
Official DR value: DR8
Разрядность: 24bit / 48kHz Stereo
Размер: 879 MB
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Never have two musicians seemed so alike in temperament yet differed so much in their approach to making music as Chet Baker and Bill Evans. While both were peerless masters of their instruments and shared a rich, evocatively lyrical playing style that bordered beguilingly on the introspective, Baker and Evans were polar opposites when it came to the discipline of performance.
Though both were heroin addicts, the musically-trained Evans never let it interfere with his meticulously precise flights of invention while the self-taught Baker became increasingly erratic and inconsistent. They ventured into a recording studio together on just three occasions, with largely disappointing results, their potentially combustible collaboration failing to ignite and all too frequently sounding workmanlike and uninspiring.
The Complete Legendary Sessions corrals the 14 tracks that resulted from those sessions – previously issued on two 1959 albums: Chet, and Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe – together for the first time, with a vocals-free Baker concentrating on his horn playing.
Occupying the first 10 tracks (absent from the LP release, Early Morning Mood appears here as a welcome bookend) Chet turns in satisfyingly laidback but unexciting performances. Sparks of energy are provided by Herbie Mann’s flute, the baritone sax of Pepper Adams, Connie Kay and Philly Joe Jones on percussion, guitarist Kenny Burrell and bass man Paul Chambers, who all go about their business with a winningly insouciant confidence.
Album opener Alone Together continues to cast a shimmering, dark-hued spell half a century later, Baker breathing long, lingering, hypnotic lines that flex and flow with understated panache. The prevailing mood is melancholic and down-tempo, with the virtually somnambulant Baker and overly cautious Evans remaining curiously semi-detached from each other throughout.
The Lerner and Loewe material offers livelier fare, but Baker remains strangely subdued and understatement continues to be Evans’s default even in the love-lit delirium of I Could Have Danced All Night. A bonus cover of Almost Like Being in Love sways rather than swings, with Bob Corwin stepping in for Evans.
As a glimpse of what might have been had these two been on form, this tantalises and frustrates in equal measure.

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01 - Alone Together 06:52
02 - How High the Moon 03:36
03 - It Never Entered My Mind 04:41
04 - 'Tis Autumn If You Could See Me Now 05:18
05 - September Song 05:17
06 - You'D Be so Nice To Come Home To 03:05
07 - Time on My Hands 04:33
08 - You and the Night and the Music 04:33
09 - Early Morning Mood 04:06
10 - Show Me 09:02
11 - I Talk to the Trees 06:31
12 - Thank Heaven for Little Girls 05:50
13 - I Could Have Danced All Night 04:35
14 - Almost Like Being In Love 03:41

CHET BAKER, trumpet
BILL EVANS, piano
HERBIE MANN, flute
ZOOT SIMS, alto & tenor saxes
PEPPER ADAMS, baritone sax
KENNY BURRELL, guitar
PAUL CHAMBERS, bass
CONNIE KAY, PHILLY JOE JONES, drums
etc.

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