Bill Evans - Interplay (1963) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2011 # UCGO-9018] PS3 ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

This album is appropriately named, as it's got lots of great interplay among the players on it. Jim Hall, Bill Evans and Freddie Hubbard just feed off each other, and at times it's not entirely clear who's the soloist and who's comping. The rhythm section provide a solid foundation underneath. The recording is warm, very present sounding, and gives the listener the feel of being in a nice jazz club, with Jim mixed stage left, Bill stage center, Freddie stage right, and Jones slightly left and the bassist right.

Interplay stands as some of Bill Evans' most enigmatic and unusual music in makeup as well as execution. It was recorded in July 1962 with a very young Freddie Hubbard from the Jazz Messengers, guitarist Jim Hall, bassist Percy Heath, and drummer Philly Joe Jones performing five veteran standards. Evans has a more blues-based approach to playing: harder, edgier, and in full flow, fueled in no small part by Hall, who is at his very best here, swinging hard whether it be a ballad or an uptempo number. Hubbard's playing, on the other hand, was never so restrained as it was here. Using a mute most of the time, his lyricism is revealed to jazz listeners for the first time – with Art Blakey it was a blistering attack of hard bop aggression. On this program of standards, however, Hubbard slips into them quite naturally without the burden of history – check his reading and improvisation on "When You Wish Upon a Star." Ironically, it's on the sole original, the title track, where the band in all its restrained, swinging power can be best heard, though the rest is striking finger-popping hard bop jazz, with stellar crystalline beauty in the ballads.

Tracklist:

01. You And The Night And The Music
02. When You Wish Upon A Star
03. I'll Never Be The Same
04. Interplay
05. You Go To My Head
06. Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams

Recorded on July 16 & 17, 1962 at Sound Makers Studio, NYC.

Personnel
Bill Evans - piano
Freddie Hubbard - trumpet
Jim Hall - guitar
Percy Heath - bass
Philly" Joe Jones - drums


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