A live recording with Bill Evans on piano recorded in the first half of August 1959…a few days before Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue ,which Bill arguably makes, was released…. You got to think the kinds of live dates Bill was having must have changed immediately after Kind of Blue…no more dates backing others (like this one) for starters one would think….But I honestly need a good Bill Evans bio urgent ….. that whole 1958-1959 period around Miles is my favorite and endlessly fascinating…throw in Cannonball Adderley’s Somethin’ Else which is practically a Miles session…Of course Coltrane returning to Miles after playing with Monk and cleaning up
Nothing much special happens here…none of Bill’s languid almost soporific playing…it doesn’t seem his style of playing….here it’s pretty typical….of course this would have been incredible live
Jimmy Garrison on bass who would go on to fame as part of the John Coltrane Quartet
This live set was released decades after being recorded