Jul 20, 2021 5:07 PM
Lasting Impressions of Bill Evans
Bill Evans’ discography is immense, beginning with his first recordings as a sideman in 1953 and running through…
New, impactful live recordings of the late pianist Bill Evans continue to emerge on vinyl.
Jul 20, 2021 5:07 PM
Bill Evans’ discography is immense, beginning with his first recordings as a sideman in 1953 and running through…
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.
Nov 30, 2020 10:06 AM
For vinyl collectors, the day after Thanksgiving traditionally has been a time to rush to a local independent retailer…
A live Alice Coltrane recording from 1972 marks a turning point in her music.
Jun 12, 2020 8:50 AM
Festivals in the States still aren’t happening, though some in Europe are moving ahead despite the uncertainty around…
Ted Nash revisits Bernstein and Sondheim for Somewhere Else: Songs From West Side Story.
Dec 27, 2019 9:07 AM
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…
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.
Nov 25, 2019 4:59 PM
Record collectors and vinyl fans are checking their bank accounts and mapping out their shopping routes for Black…
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.
Apr 14, 2019 11:36 AM
In the United States, the middle of April means two things: Record Store Day and Tax Day. Vinyl LP collectors must…
Bassist Eddie Gomez (left), drummer Jack DeJohnette and pianist Bill Evans made a few recordings and played live in Summer 1968 while in Germany.
Feb 12, 2018 5:10 PM
After getting done with the new Netflix feature A Futile and Stupid Gesture, which features a fictionalized Chevy Chase…
Eddie Gomez (left), Jack DeJohnette and Bill Evans circa 1968.
Sep 1, 2017 1:29 PM
They were only together for six months. But the 1968 version of the Bill Evans Trio with Eddie Gomez on bass and Jack…
Wadada Leo Smith topped three categories in the DownBeat Critics Poll: Trumpet, Jazz Artist and Jazz Album (for America’s National Parks).
Jun 29, 2017 3:26 PM
Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and guitarist Mary Halvorson are among the artists who topped multiple categories in the…
Patrons shop for records at Chicago’s Dusty Groove.
Apr 22, 2017 8:49 AM
Record producer Zev Feldman is a bona fide jazz zealot, a man who brings a messianic glee to his desire to spread the…
Leslie Pintchik is a New York-based pianist and composer.
Apr 4, 2017 4:35 PM
Who among us really knows what we’re buying when it comes to such a big-ticket item like choosing one’s…
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.
Jan 31, 2017 6:52 PM
In the mid-1970s, jazz pianist Bill Evans was at the pinnacle of his career, releasing a string of seminal albums on…
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