Bill Evans

Elected to the Hall of Fame
1981 Critics Poll

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    New, impactful live recordings of the late pianist Bill Evans continue to emerge on vinyl.

    Lasting Impressions of Bill Evans

    Bill Evans’ discography is immense, beginning with his first recordings as a sideman in 1953 and running through…

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    Resonance Records’ Sonny Rollins album, Rollins In Holland, will be available as part of Record Store Day Black Friday (Nov. 27). The album’s packaging includes many photos, including this shot of bassist Ruud Jacobs (left) and Rollins performing on May 5, 1967.

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    A live Alice Coltrane recording from 1972 marks a turning point in her music.

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    Ted Nash revisits Bernstein and Sondheim for Somewhere Else: Songs From West Side Story.

    2019: The Year’s Top-Rated Albums

    The list below is a round up of the 5-, 4.5- and 4-star reviews that ran in print editions of DownBeat during 2019. If…

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    The Afterlife, by the trio The Comet Is Coming, will be available on Friday, Nov. 29, as part of the Record Store Day Black Friday retail event.

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    Back On Indiana Avenue: The Carroll DeCamp Recordings, an album of previously unreleased work by Wes Montgomery, is among the recordings being released Saturday for Record Store Day.

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    Bassist Eddie Gomez (left), drummer Jack DeJohnette and pianist Bill Evans made a few recordings and played live in Summer 1968 while in Germany.

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    Eddie Gomez (left), Jack DeJohnette and Bill Evans circa 1968.

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    Wadada Leo Smith topped three categories in the DownBeat Critics Poll: Trumpet, Jazz Artist and Jazz Album (for America’s National Parks).

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    Patrons shop for records at Chicago’s Dusty Groove.

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    Leslie Pintchik is a New York-based pianist and composer.

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    Eddie Gomez (left), Eliot Zigmud and Bill Evans form the trio featured on On A Monday Evening (Fantasy Records), a new album of unreleased material recorded at the University of Wisconsin in 1976.


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