Coming soon (April 18th) Bill Evans At The BBC.
The previously-bootlegged “Jazz 625” session from March 1965 gets an official release at last. Double vinyl for Record Store Day or on CD.
Featuring Bill’s only appearance on BBC television, with bassist Chuck Israels and Larry Bunker on drums. Intro. by Humphrey Lyttleton.
A link to a review by Andrew Cartmel should appear here, but if it doesn’t I’ll put it in a comment after.
https://ukjazznews.com/bill-evans-at-the-bbc/
Thanks for the tip-off, Mike! That’s a definite purchase!
‘My Foolish Heart’ from this session is one of my Desert Island tracks (and on my funeral list as well for that matter. If I remember correctly it is also used as the intro music for a BBC 4 bio of Stan Tracey – ‘The Godfather of British Jazz’.
As no one else has done it, I think I need to: “Mmm, nice…”.
I listen to more jazz than anything else these days, TBH.
On the subject of jazz news, I’m delighted that Gondwana saxophonist, Jasmine Myra, is releasing a new album and will be out on tour in the autumn and visiting Stockholm.
A new jazz discovery, thanks to Sveriges Radio’s Rendezvous, is Welsh, jazz harpist, Amanda Whiting.
Agreeably mellow.
It’s been a pretty good year for jazz so far. I could recommend a few but some artists and albums have been mentioned elsewhere on the blog in other threads. Nobody has recommended Melissa Aldana yet so I will take that opportunity now.
Melissa is superb, @Pencilsqeezer.
I’m a very forgetful old sausage. Please jog my memory about some of those artists who have been mentioned elsewhere.
Tomeka Reid – Dance! Skip! Hop! Is probably my favourite release of the year so far. You won’t find anything from it on You Tube but there are some performances with her fine quartet from a few years ago.
Gabrielle Cavassa – Diavola is released on May 1st. The below is from that forthcoming album.
I’d add Immanuel Wilkins Quartet Live At The Village Vanguard Vol. 1
I thought you might. 😉
I like how the boundaries between jazz, folk, pop and classical have blurred as we advance into C21.
But then, as Duke Ellington once said “There are just two kinds of music. Good music and the other kind.”
Here’s a very impressive singer I recently saw guesting at the Elephant Inn in Finchley.
Ineza – Silence.
And what excellent musicians she has in her band, @mike_h
Michael Lack – sax
Rob Brockway – piano
Benjamin Crane – bass
Kuba Miazga – drums
Hopefully she will go far.
Completely different band when I saw her.
Very impressive young drummer with minimal kit (just bass drum, snare, splash & crash cymbals and hi-hat), good double bassist and first-rate keyboard player (all names misremembered, sadly) plus gig organiser Jeremy on alto & soprano saxes. Mostly jazz standards played, apart from 2 of her own songs from her album.
She’s from Rwanda originally, but adopted as an infant and raised in Belgium and the UK.
I suppose Humph didn’t introduce Bill Evans to the audience in the same way he used to introduce Colin Sell on I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue!
Has anyone heard a bad Bill Evans recording?
As someone on the Steve Hoffman Forums once remarked. “Bill Evans’ ‘best work’ was every time he touched the keyboard”…
I find them all very similar.