If You Like Bill Evans, You'll like ....

Don't miss the recently issued Bill Evans: The Complete Village Recordings - a 3 CD set of everything that was put down that weekend. You are there right between the stage and the seats. Great liner notes too.

If you like sax, you gotta hear Ben Webster and Stanley Turrentine. Webster's Renaissance is considered one of the great recordings. Try Turrentine on Blue Hour With The Three Sounds.

If you like the pretty ladies, then check out some Peggy Lee. She put out a ton of product but I particularly recommend her 1988 album, Peggy Lee Sings The Blues (great band and arrangements) and her only live set Peggy At Basin Street East.

Another tremendous and often overlooked female vocalist is Maria Muldaur - my favorite is A Woman Alone With The Blues. Tremendous stuff.

Speaking of overlooked female vocalists: Anita Baker. Just don't hear about her enough. Man could she sing for a white girl. I believe she is still alive? Must be in her 80s. Oh, and a big yes to Ben Webster. Try Soulville on Verve, too. warren :)

"Ah, Bill Evans. The three albums he did with Paul Motian and Scott LeFaro before he (Scott) died: Trio nirvana. Doesn't get better. Lefaro was a monster. Dead at 22? Car accident, I believe. Evans delicate touch of the ivories: sweetness....and Paul Motian? You talk of lightness of being on the skins? Tonight it's Waltz for Debbie"

Warrenh- just picked up the 3 CD set with Scott & Paul. Paul's still going strong, try his new Garden Of Eden CD.

Has anyone heard Geoffrey Keezer's new live CD-Wildcrafted?

Portrait in Jazz/Sunday at the Village Vanguard/Waltz for Debbie on XRCD. Not vinyl, but with tubes, oh so close...

I have Bill Evans Trio "Waltz for Debbie" remastered in analog utilizing the 20bit K-2 Super Coding System on Riverside (RCD-9399-2).

It's scary.

I find myself trying to listen to the conversations being held at the bar behind me!