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| 1. | Show-Type Tune
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| 2. | Turn Out the Stars
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| 3. | Walkin' Up
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| 4. | Very Early
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| 5. | Five
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| 6. | Time Remembered
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| 7. | Skidoo
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| 8. | Re: Person I Knew
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| 9. | Children's Play Song
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Jazz / Avant-Garde; Post-Bop
Recorded: May 1990, Sorcerer Sound, New York, New York
Paul Motian - drums
Bill Frisell - guitar
Joe Lovano - tenor saxophone
Marc Johnson - bass
In September 1990 it is ten years since Bill Evans died. To commemorate this sad anniversary, Paul Motian has recorded a tribute to the greatest of pop-bob pianists. As Evans's partner in the classical first Bill Evans Trio, Paul Motion is supremely qualified to perpetuate Evans's musical heritage.
Bill Evans's harmonically sophisticated, introspective piano style set a standard that pianists until today cannot affort to disregard. Moreover, together with Paul Motian and bassist Scott LaFaro, he broke down the traditional hierarchy of roles within the piano trio in favor of integration and communication. Paul Motion : "It was fantastic music, it was uplifting. Every day was a learning experience. We knew we had something different and original that no one had done before. It was a different way of playing in the context of a trio. It wasn't piano, bass and drums, it was music made by three people. It's like you take a puzzle with maybe thousand pieces, and maybe you find only three that really fit together. That's a rarity."
Paul Motian continued to build and refine the highly individual style on drums which he had honed in Bill Evans's group, first with Paul Bley, Albert Ayler, Sun Ra, Gary Peacock, Charles Lloyd, intermittently with John Coltrane, Arlo Guthrie (Woodstock!) then for a number of years with Keith Jarrett, and finally with bands of his own. Since the early eighties his main interest is centered on his trio with Bill Frisell, guitar, and Joe Lovano, tenor saxophone.
Inspite of the different - line-up - the more unusual guitar, tenor sax and drums instead of piano, bass and drums - there are audible parallels between the two bands, The San Francisco Examiner finds. The Paul Motian Trio combines openness with clarity, seeming simplicity with demanding substance, lyricism with energy, and stands out for how remarkably close its members communicate musically. Paul Motian: "I have complete faith in Bill and Joe. I can bring in a completely new piece of music and take it on the bandstand, with no rehearsals, and have complete confidence. We've grown that much since 1981."
"Joe Lovano is, by now, a first division saxophonist in every way", Wire has started. Recently, not least due to recording/touring with John Scofield, he had began to reap the recognition with Paul Motian since 1981.
Bill Frisell, the most original voice on guitar to emerge in the last decade (see his recordings/performances with his own band, John Zorn's Naked City, Arto Lindsay, Herb Robertson, Tim Berne, Hank Roberts and many others), exhibits a certain stylistic affinity with Bill Evans: Frisell too dazzles with a characteristic sound, subtle power, a feel for form and structure, and harmonic inventiveness. Bill Frisell about his work with Paul Motian: "I don't think I'll ever stop playing with him. He was one of the first people who really let me blossom. What's really amazing is that it continues. There aren't many people who I've played with for that length of time where it stays fresh. Every gig, it's just 'watch out'."
For his previous two records on JMT, Paul Motian invited Charlie Haden as bassist. For Bill Evans, Paul Motian chose Marc Johnson as the fourth man, thus reconstituting the original Paul Motian group (Paul Motian, Bill Frisell, Joe Lovano, Marc Johnson), as it existed for a while in 1981, until Marc Johnson's other engagements began taking up too much of his time and he left the band, Bill Frisell later became a member of his popular band Bass Desires. Like Paul Motian, Marc Johnson too played with Bill Evans. While Motian was his first drummer, Johnson was his last bassist (1979-80). His sense of melody and great technique show him to be a musical descendant of Scott LaFaro, his predecessor in Evans' trio and an important emancipator of the bass who died in an automobile accident in 1961.
Paul Motian, Bill Frisell, Joe Lovano and Marc Johnson interpret nine compositions by Bill Evans, mostly from Motian's time with Evans, in a way that acknowledges Evans' influence yet is unmistakeably their own. Analogously, Steve Byram strove to design the album cover. Paul Motian provided him with a drawing by Bill Evans which Evans, a very close friend, gave him in the early sixties. On the back of the jacket, the drawing is reprinted in its original form. The design on the front is a modified vision of it, the result of a similar process which Evans's music underwent in its interpretations by Paul Motion and his group. The original model is still recognizeable, but it has been proceeded by transforming it, Paul Motian, Joe Lovano, Bill Frisell and Marc Johnson show that Bill Evans's music lives.
- Original Press Text written in 1990 |
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