How My Heart Sings!
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8/9 |
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42:56 (LP) / 48:46 (CD) |
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How My Heart Sings! is a jazz song by Anne and Earl Zindars , which is the title track of Bill Evans' jazz album of the same name , recorded in New York City on May 17, May 29 and June 5, 1962 and released on Riverside Records in 1964 .
The album
With the accidental death of bassist Scott LaFaro on July 6, 1961, the Bill Evans trio of the late 1950s came to an abrupt end. Shortly before, the concert recordings in New York's Village Vanguard were made, published as Waltz for Debby and Sunday at the Village Vanguard . Chuck Israels finally replaced the crashed LaFaro after the pianist - shocked by the loss of the bassist and friend - hadn't played for a while. After a few months of rehearsing, Bill Evans felt ready to record at Riverside again .
Orrin Keepnews , who this time also wanted to record a pure ballad album with Evans, had him and his trio record different material at the sessions that took place in May and June 1962; these included the Evans compositions "Very Early" and "Re: Person I Knew", which then appeared on the ballad album Moon Beams (RLP 428) in 1963 , as well as other pieces by Evans such as "Walking Up" and "Show Type." Tune ”and“ 34 Skidoo ”, which the pianist played mostly in medium and fast tempo, but rarely had in his repertoire later. The later album begins with a lyrical waltz, the title track of the album by the composer Earl Zindars, who was friends with Evans. This piece already shows Evans' intention to create a singing sound with these recordings, as he himself wrote in the liner notes to the album. "It contains a lovely 4/4 interlude, framed by a delightful, lyrical line in 3/4 time," says Bill Evans.
There was also an interpretation of the Gershwin classic " Summertime ", which, according to Cook / Morton, is one of the more dramatic versions of the standard . as well as Brubeck's composition “In Your Own Sweet Way” (of which the CD edition also contains an alternate take ).
In the standard "Summertime", which Evans plays at medium tempo, the melody follows the swinging theme of Motian's drumming and finally changes the line of the melody with a number of arpeggios and short chopped phrases. In the title track, his solo moves in waves from the middle register, and Paul Motian's work with the sticks lets the rhythm of the piece shine through, thereby emphasizing the dance-like and singable character of the piece. In Cole Porter's "Everything I Love" Evans takes up a motif from the piece, breaks it up, and integrates it into the driving swing of the piece.
Rating of the album
Hanns E. Petrik sees the album as an amazing achievement when you consider that Chuck Israels has only played in Evans' trio for six months. “The trio seems well-rehearsed and self-contained, the pianist's harmonic ideas are rich and stimulating.” In his review of the album, Petrik quotes a review of the Down Beat from that time, “Two components in Evans' playing are remarkable: The apt chord accents of the left hand and the way in which harmony structures in the pieces are often replaced or refined by completely new or supplementary ones ”. Tom Jurek rates the album in the All Music Guide with four stars and particularly emphasizes the achievements of the new bassist Chuck Israels in his commentary; the bassist is more in the rhythm section and supports the pianist.
The titles
Bill Evans Trio - "How My Heart Sings!" (Riverside RM 473, OJC 369-2)
- How My Heart Sings (Zindars) 4:55
- I Should Care (Cahn - Stordahl - Weston) 4:53
- In Your Own Sweet Way ( Dave Brubeck ) (take 1) 6:56
- In Your Own Sweet Way (take 2, alternate take) 5:50
- Walking Up (Bill Evans) 4:54
- Summertime (Gershwin - Heyward - Gershwin) 5:57
- 34 Skidoo (Bill Evans) 6:18
- Ev'rything I Love ( Cole Porter ) 4:11
- Show-Type Tune (Bill Evans) 4:21
Editorial notes
Riverside producer Orrin Keepnews initially withheld the recordings for the trio album after the Riverside contract expired and only released them in 1964, when the pianist was already under contract with the Verve label.
In 1977 Orrin Keepnews finally released the recordings of the two Riverside albums in a double album on Milestone Records under the title The Second Trio (Milestone M-47046). The new release of the album in 1989 by Original Jazz Classics was supplemented by the alternate take of "In Your Own Sweet Way".
literature
- Ian Carr , Digby Fairweather , Brian Priestley : Rough Guide Jazz. The ultimate guide to jazz. 1800 bands and artists from the beginning until today. 2nd, expanded and updated edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2004, ISBN 3-476-01892-X .
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
- Hanns E. Petrik: Bill Evans: his life, his music, his records. Oreos, Waakirchen 1989, ISBN 3-923657-23-4 .
Web links
- How My Heart Sings! at Allmusic (English)
Notes and individual references
- ↑ See Wikifonia ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . The composition was later recorded again by Evans and interpreted by numerous other artists such as Jimmy Raney / Doug Raney , Larry Coryell / Emily Remler -Duo, Andy LaVerne , Dino Saluzzi , Jarmo Savolainen and Bill Cunliffe .
- ↑ Shortly before, the pianist had participated in a session led by Benny Golson in April ( Just Jazz! ) And recorded a duo album with guitarist Jim Hall , Undercurrent, for United Artists Records .
- ↑ See Cook & Morton.
- ↑ cit. according to Tom Jurek, All Music Guide [1]
- ↑ a b quotation from Petrik, p. 122.
