Waltz for Debby [Bonus Tracks #2]

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All Music Guide - Thom Jurek
Recorded at the Village Vanguard in 1961, shortly before Scott LaFaro's death, Waltz for Debby is the second album issued from that historic session, and the final one from that legendary trio that also contained drummer Paul Motian. While the Sunday at the Village Vanguard album focused on material where LaFaro soloed prominently, Waltz for Debby is far more a portrait of the trio on those dates. Bill Evans chose the material here, and, possibly, in some unconscious way, revealed on these sessions -- and the two following LaFaro's death Moonbeams and How My Heart Sings! -- a different side of his musical personality which had never been displayed on his earlier solo ...
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All Music Guide - Thom Jurek
Recorded at the Village Vanguard in 1961, shortly before Scott LaFaro's death, Waltz for Debby is the second album issued from that historic session, and the final one from that legendary trio that also contained drummer Paul Motian. While the Sunday at the Village Vanguard album focused on material where LaFaro soloed prominently, Waltz for Debby is far more a portrait of the trio on those dates. Bill Evans chose the material here, and, possibly, in some unconscious way, revealed on these sessions -- and the two following LaFaro's death Moonbeams and How My Heart Sings! -- a different side of his musical personality which had never been displayed on his earlier solo recordings or during his tenures with Miles Davis and George Russell. Evans was an intensely romantic player, flagrantly emotional, and that is revealed here in spades on tunes such as "My Foolish Heart" and "Detour Ahead." There is a kind of impressionistic construction to his harmonic architecture that plays off the middle registers and goes deeper into its sonances in order to set into motion numerous melodic fragments simultaneously. The rhythmic intensity that he displayed as a sideman is evident here in "Milestones," with its muscular, shifting time signature, and those large, flatted ninths with the right hand. The trio's most impressive interplay is in "My Romance," after Evans' opening moments introducing the changes. Here Motian's brushwork is delicate, flighty, and elegant, and LaFaro controls the dynamic of the tune with his light-as-a-feather pizzicato work and makes Evans' deeply emotional statements swing effortlessly. Of the many recordings Evans issued, the two Vanguard dates and Explorations are the ultimate expressions of his legendary trio.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 10/17/1990
  • Label: Ojc
  • UPC: 025218621021
  • Catalog Number: 210

Tracks

Disc 1
  1. 1 My Foolish Heart (4:56)
  2. 2 Waltz for Debby (7:00)
  3. 3 Waltz for Debby (6:46)
  4. 4 Detour Ahead - Bill Evans (7:35)
  5. 5 Detour Ahead - Bill Evans (7:12)
  6. 6 My Romance (7:11)
  7. 7 My Romance (7:13)
  8. 8 Some Other Time (5:02)
  9. 9 Milestones - Bill Evans (6:37)
  10. 10 Porgy (I Loves You, Porgy) - Bill Evans (5:57)
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Album Credits

Performance Credits
Bill Evans Trio Primary Artist
Bill Evans Indexed Contributor, Piano
Peter Grant Serp
Scott LaFaro Bass
Paul Motian Drums
Technical Credits
Leonard Bernstein Composer
George Gershwin Composer
Miles Davis Composer
Herb Ellis Composer
Bill Evans Composer
Jimmy McHugh Composer
Richard Rodgers Composer
Johnny Frigo Composer
Ira Gershwin Composer
Joe Goldberg Liner Notes
David Jones Engineer
Orrin Keepnews Producer, Liner Notes
Akira Taguchi Producer
Ned Washington Composer
Alan Yoshida Mastering
Victor Young Composer
Ken Deardoff Cover Design
Lou Carter Composer
David O Jones Engineer
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