The Singing Reed One of the first recordings of Bill Evans with singer Lucy Reed. Here is a collection of album covers with some comments from some of the lesser known and best known boxed sets of Bill Evans. He produced seminal recordings by Thelonious Monk, Cannonball Adderley, and Wes Montgomery, among others. Keepnews, who once said he had “not the faintest inkling of musical talent,” was a co-founder of Riverside Records, which was among the leading jazz labels of its time, along with Blue Note and Prestige.
His wife, Martha Egan, confirmed the death but declined to provide a specific cause. He died one day before his 92nd birthday. Fortunately for listeners with a budget, nearly all of this material has since been reissued on single CDs (mostly as part of the Original Jazz Classics series), but true Bill Evans fanatics will have to get this remarkable box.By By MaOrrin Keepnews, who produced many influential jazz recordings in the 1950s and 1960s on his independent record label and who later won four Grammy Awards for his meticulous work in reissuing collections of classic jazz, died March 1 at his home in El Cerrito, Calif. Twenty sessions are released in full, 151 selections in all, including 24 performances that had been previously unissued at the time. The first session predates Evans' period with the Miles Davis Sextet and other significant sessions include his sets with bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian (highlighted by the marathon Village Vanguard session of June 25, 1961), Evans' return nearly a year after LaFaro's death in a car accident with a new trio (consisting of Motian and bassist Chuck Israels), a sideman set with altoist Cannonball Adderley, the Interplay sessions with either trumpeter Freddie Hubbard or tenor saxophonist Zoot Sims, an extensive and rather somber solo set, and a 1963 appearance at Shelly's Manne Hole with bassist Israels and drummer Larry Bunker.
This magnificent 12-CD set contains all of Bill Evans' Riverside recordings as a leader, an extremely important period in the influential pianist's development.
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