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The span of this 12-CD box set is generally acknowledged as the best Bill Evans material available. That's saying a lot, considering the high quality of The Complete Fantasy Recordings and The Complete Bill Evans on Verve. What the Riverside recordings display is a young Evans discovering his revolutionary harmonic depth and improvisational genius with bursts of energy that, by his second session, had established a kind of moody intensity that seemed to deepen the music while making it at once more complex and easier to absorb. Evans's Riverside years encompass his early dynamos: Everybody Digs Bill Evans is resplendently here, as is the material from Sunday at the Village Vanguard and Waltz for Debby. So, too, are sessions with Cannonball Adderley, Jim Hall, and Zoot Sims. Through it all, Evans remains firmly planted in a winding style that's creatively unstoppable and visceral in its intensity. One could write hundreds of pages about these 12 CDs. Instead, you should indulge their dozen-plus hours. --Andrew Bartlett
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The Complete Riverside Recordings [Vinyl] Reviews
The Complete Riverside Recordings [Vinyl] Reviews
| 87 of 92 people found the following review helpful:  Bedrock of modern jazz piano, By This review is from: The Complete Riverside Recordings (Audio CD) Like a lot of boxed sets of first-rank artists, the real question is: do you need it? Most of the albums included here are the lynchpins of Bill Evans' oeuvre, & some of the most familiar & influential jazz of the postbop era. So: here's a quick runthrough of what you get--you can make up your mind, depending on how much of this material you already have:_New Jazz Conceptions_--a solid early date with Teddy Kotick & Paul Motian; Evans is as yet not that distinctive a pianist, & the real early achievements are to be found in his sideman appearances on George Russell's albums. _Everybody Digs Bill Evans_--a date from two years later, during Evans' tenure with Miles Davis; the rhythm section is Sam Jones & Philly Joe Jones. The first great Evans album, split between hard-hitting uptempo numbers like "Oleo" and his trademark luminous ballads like "Young and Foolish". A session with Paul Chambers & Philly Joe Jones only released in... Read more 22 of 23 people found the following review helpful: Completely Wonderful, By Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: The Complete Riverside Recordings (Audio CD) This collection of Bill Evans' wonderful work for Riverside is nothing short of magnificent. The 12-discs (nicely packaged in three, 4-disc holders similar to the old 2-cd sets) in this set contain over 13 hours of music (the remastering from 1987 is good) and almost 150 tracks. Evans' work from 1956-1963 (arguably his most productive) is what this box set is all about. The peerless recordings with Scott LeFaro and Paul Motian are highlights (of course) as well as a session with Cannonball Adderley, Evans' "Interplay" sessions, some previously unreleased, beautiful solo piano (subsequently available on other records--the Solo Sessions for example), and all Evans' other recordings for Riverside. Naturally this includes the brilliant "Everybody Digs Bill Evans", "Portrait in Jazz", "Sunday at the Village Vanguard", and "Waltz for Debby" amongst others. Many alternate takes (some more engaging than the originals) are included (most, if... Read more 12 of 14 people found the following review helpful: a great set, By Ron Rhodes (Dallas, TX USA) - See all my reviews This review is from: The Complete Riverside Recordings (Audio CD) This is a boxed set that contains some of the best jazz music you will ever hear. And it you are a Bill Evans fan, you'll have a great jukebox full of music to enjoy for the rest of your life. Yes, it's really that good. |
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