Bill Evans Quintet – Interplay (1962) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2011 # UCGO-9018]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 38:59 minutes | Scans included | 1,63 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 878 MB
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.
Tracklist:
01. You And The Night And The Music
02. When You Wish Upon A Star
03. I’ll Never Be The Same
04. Interplay
05. You Go To My Head
06. Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams
Personnel:
Bill Evans – piano
Freddie Hubbard – trumpet
Jim Hall – guitar
Percy Heath – bass
Philly” Joe Jones – drums
SACD ISO
BillEvansInterplay1962Japan2011SHMSACDIS0.part1.rar
BillEvansInterplay1962Japan2011SHMSACDIS0.part2.rar
FLAC 24bit/88.2kHz