Bill Evans Trio - Moon Beams (2010) {Analogue Productions 45rpm 180g} 24-bit/96kHz Vinyl Rip plus Redbook CD Version

is a 1962 album by jazz musician Bill Evans, and the first trio album recorded by Evans after the death of Scott LaFaro. With Chuck Israels on bass taking the place of LaFaro, Evans recorded several songs during these May and June 1962 sessions. contains a collection of ballads recorded during this period. The more uptempo tunes were put on . Bill Evans is a musician you never tire of listening to. He has the ability to play a tune freshly, every time. This recording is, in my opinion, his finest. The first date after the untimely death of Scott LaFaro, this album is beautiful ,melodic and haunting. Every tune is played with typical Evans genius, but on this session he seems to be expressing his musical ideas with even more flavor and emotion. The first cut is the most expressive and emotive I have ever heard in the trio setting. I am sure it was dedicated to LaFaro, even though it supposedly is an anagram for the producer of the date, Orrin Keepnews. Evans expresses his passion, joy and grief for his young bassist in every note and the result is, to my mind, stunning. I love Chuck Israels' bass lines and the chords Evans plays quietly over the bass solo are beautiful and ephemeral. Every tune on this album is wonderful, the playing of everyone is at such a high level of creativity that this music will live on forever. This is a can't miss choice if you like piano music. - amazon.com review Professional ratings Allmusic 4/5 stars

Track listing

Side One

1. "Re: Person I Knew" (Bill Evans) – 5:42
2. "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 4:57

Side Two

3. "I Fall In Love Too Easily" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) – 2:39
4. "Stairway to the Stars" (Matty Malneck, Mitchell Parish) – 4:48

Side Three

5. "If You Could See Me Now" (Tadd Dameron) – 4:24
6. "It Might as Well Be Spring" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 6:03

Side Four

7. "In Love In Vain" (Leo Robin, Jerome Kern) – 4:56
8. "Very Early" (Bill Evans) – 5:04


Released 1962
Recorded May 17 - June 2, 1962 at Sound Makers Studio, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length 38:33
Label Riverside/Analogue Productions
Producer Orrin Keepnews

Personnel

* Bill Evans - piano
* Chuck Israels - bass
* Paul Motian - drums







The Bill Evans Riverside Recordings box set includes:

New Jazz Conceptions
Everybody Digs Bill Evans
Portrait In Jazz
Know What I Mean?
Explorations
Sunday At The Village Vanguard
Waltz For Debby
Moon Beams
How My Heart Sings!
Interplay
At Shelly's Manne-Hole, Hollywood