Bill Evans - Interplay (1962) 320 kbps+CD Rip

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Title: Interplay
Year Of Release: 2007
Label: Riverside [UCCO-9027]
Genre: Jazz, Cool, Modal Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log) | MP3/320 kbps
Total Time: 45:43
Total Size: 305 MB(+3%) | 108 MB(+3%)
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Tracklist

01. You and the Night and the Music (Dietz-Schwartz) - 7:05
02. When You Wish Upon a Star (Washington-Harline) - 5:45
03. I'll Never Smile Again (take 7) (Lowe) - 6:33
04. I'll Never Smile Again (take 6) (Lowe) - 6:39
05. Interplay (Evans) - 8:14
06. You Go to My Head (Gillespie-Coots) - 5:04
07. Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (Mill-Koehler-Barris) - 6:22
Bill Evans - Interplay (1962) 320 kbps+CD Rip

personnel :

Bill Evans - piano
Freddie Hubbard - trumpet
Jim Hall - guitar
Percy Heath - bass
Philly Joe Jones - drums

Interplay stands as some of Bill Evans' most enigmatic and unusual music in makeup as well as execution. It was recorded in July 1962 with a very young Freddie Hubbard from the Jazz Messengers, guitarist Jim Hall, bassist Percy Heath, and drummer Philly Joe Jones performing five veteran standards. Evans has a more blues-based approach to playing: harder, edgier, and in full flow, fueled in no small part by Hall, who is at his very best here, swinging hard whether it be a ballad or an uptempo number. Hubbard's playing, on the other hand, was never so restrained as it was here. Using a mute most of the time, his lyricism is revealed to jazz listeners for the first time -- with Art Blakey it was a blistering attack of hard bop aggression. On this program of standards, however, Hubbard slips into them quite naturally without the burden of history -- check his reading and improvisation on "When You Wish Upon a Star." Ironically, it's on the sole original, the title track, where the band in all its restrained, swinging power can be best heard, though the rest is striking finger-popping hard bop jazz, with stellar crystalline beauty in the ballads.~Thom Jurek