Live at Balboa Jazz Club Vol. 1-古典

This is yet another high-caliber performance from the last year of Bill Evans′ life, the first set of a fairly well recorded evening in a Madrid night club. Evans′ final trio (with Marc Johnson and Joe LaBarbera ) concentrated on a fairly small repertoire but constantly worked on evolving their interpretations. A favorite Evans opener, his moody but delightful "Re: Person I Knew" (an anagram of Orrin Keepnews -- his first producer and co-founder of Riverside). A very gut-wrenching version of "My Man′s Gone Now" is followed by a hard swinging take of Johnny Mandel′s "Theme From M*A*S*H." While the sound is occasionally over-modulated, this CD is recommended.