Jade visions (Bill Evans) (LP 1034-1036)

Bill Evans  Everybody Digs Bill Evans (CD, Avid Jazz, Originally released 1958) ****  

Bill Evans  Portrait In Jazz (CD, Avid Jazz, Originally released 1960) *****  

Bill Evans  Sunday At The Village Vanguard (CD, Avid Jazz, Originally released 1961) *****  

Genre: Jazz piano 

Places I remember: Fopp (Covent Garden)

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Autumn Leaves (Portrait In Jazz)

Gear costume: What Is This Thing Called Love (Portrait In Jazz); All Of You (Sunday...)

Active compensatory factors: Everybody Digs Bill Evans was only his second album as a leader. Remarkable.

He may have made a poor album at some point, but I've yet to hear it. 

These are all trio albums and both Portrait In Jazz and Sunday At The Village Vanguard are great examples of his languid, smooth genius.

Sunday... is my favourite of the three because it sounds like he and the boys are playing in your front room! There is a real intimacy to the recording that I love.

Where do they all belong? If I see other Bill Evans albums I'll be buying them, but that's it for now. 

P.S. Just back from a holiday in Taupo where I picked up two more of Evans' albums from 1961 on vinyl!!