Bill Evans
“The greatest strength of the album lies in Tom Darter’s arrangements and the quartet’s execution. Darter gives us the songs sounding very much as they were originally written and then adds variations on the themes, sometimes basing them on Evans’s own piano improvisations… The result: The spirit of Evans’s music is successfully captured.”
From Orrin Keepnews’ liner notes: “Bill Evans (1929–1980) was among the most significant musical innovators of our time. After him, the language of jazz was not quite the same as before. His contributions to the vocabulary of the music are readily identifiable: there is a definite Evans sound, tone, harmonic approach – all evident in his own playing and in that of the many others greatly influenced by him. And in this unique album, the Kronos Quartet and their two very special guests also celebrate Bill Evans as an important 20th century composer, the creator of a distinctive, often daring, and wonderfully melodic body of work.”
SELECT CREDITS
Kronos Quartet
David Harrington, violin
John Sherba, violin
Hank Dutt, viola
Joan Jeanrenaud, cello
Eddie Gomez, bass
Jim Hall, guitar
Arranged and adapted by Tom Darter
Produced by Orrin Keepnews
All music originally composed by Bill Evans, unless otherwise notated
Originally released by Landmark Records
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