BILL EVANS TRIO – Sunday At The Village Vanguard (Waxtime Reissue) – LP – Black Vinyl

LP – Black Vinyl

Sunday at the Village Vanguard is a live album by jazz pianist and composer Bill Evans and his Trio consisting of Evans, bassist Scott LaFaro, and drummer Paul Motian. Released in 1961, the album is routinely ranked as one of the best live jazz recordings of all time.

Sunday at the Village Vanguard was drawn from material recorded during five sets on June 25, 1961, at the Village Vanguard in New York City. This was the last performance by the Bill Evans Trio with bassist Scott LaFaro, who was killed in a car accident eleven days after the recording.

Evans and producer Orrin Keepnews reportedly selected the tracks for Sunday at the Village Vanguard to best feature LaFaro’s masterly performance on bass, beginning and ending with two tracks (“Gloria’s Step” and “Jade Visions“) written by LaFaro himself, and with all the others featuring solos by him.

This album is routinely ranked as one of the best live jazz recordings of all time. Additional material from the same day’s performance was released in a second album Waltz for Debby (also 1961), as was other material in another LP Bill Evans More From the Vanguard. The entire day’s recordings were released in 2005 as The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961.

Tracklist:

Side A
1. Gloria’s Step
2. My Man’s Gone Now
3. Solar

Side B
1. Alice In Wonderland
2. All Of You
3. Jade Visions
4. Jade Visions [alternate Take]