Some Other Time: The Lost Session from the Black Forest

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Some Other Time: The Lost Session from the Black Forest
Studio album by Bill Evans

Publication
(s)

2016

Label (s) Resonance Records

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

jazz

Title (number)

21st

occupation

production

Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer , Joachim-Ernst Berendt , Zev Feldman

Studio (s)

MPS Studios, Villingen-Schwenningen

Some Other Time: The Lost Session from the Black Forest is an album by Bill Evans . It is the pianist's only studio album with his (short-lived) trio of Eddie Gomez and Jack DeJohnette . It was recorded on June 20, 1968 in the studio of Musik Produktion Schwarzwald (MPS) in Villingen-Schwenningen and was released on April 22, 2016 on the reissue label Resonance Records. The label had already released music by Bill Evans with the live album Live at Art D'Lugoff's Top of the Gate in 2012 .

background

Joachim-Ernst Berendt heard the Bill Evans Trio perform at the Montreux Jazz Festival and was so impressed by it that he was able to convince Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer and Bill Evans' manager Helen Keane , the pianist during his tour (which also took place on June 22nd, the recording Another Time: The Hilversum Concert was made) in June 1968 to give the opportunity for recordings in the MPS studio. However, since there were contractual obligations (Evans was under contract with Verve Records ), a publication of the studio recordings of jazz pianist Bill Evans with bassist Eddie Gomez and drummer Jack DeJohnette in Villingen-Schwenningen in the MPS studio in June 1968 did not materialize; the tapes were soon forgotten in the MPS archive. Evans, Helen Keane and Berendt died before 2000, and after Brunner-Schwer's death in 2004, the session was a "forgotten historical relic". The producer of the Resonance Records label , Zev Feldman , met Brunner-Schwer's son while visiting Jazzahead in Bremen and through him came across the previously unpublished sound documents that Brunner-Schwer and Berendt had produced.

Music of the album

Jack DeJohnette said in an interview documented in the album's liner notes : “There was a great deal of freedom in Bill's playing, which the drummer and bassist expected to sound similar. Because Bill always played his arrangements in the same way, Eddie and I made permutations around the arrangements to make them look fresher. ”(In the original there was a lot of freedom Bill's way of playing expected of the drummer and the bassist to make it sound different every time. Because when Bill played his arrangements, he played them almost the same every time. So Eddie and I make permutations around the arrangements to keep them fresh. ) The recordings would represent a “space and time in which Evans explored new approaches to the standard repertoire in a rhythmic and harmonious way . “Evans brought many new pieces into the session that the trio had never played before. In addition, there is a different (stronger) attack by Bill Evans in some pieces, which was probably due to the fact that the pianist first had to familiarize himself with the unfamiliar Steinway grand piano in the MPS studio.

Track list

  • Bill Evans: Some Other Time: The Lost Session from the Black Forest (Resonance Records - HCD-2019)

CD 1

  1. You Go to My Head ( J. Fred Coots , Haven Gillespie ) 4:58
  2. Very Early (Evans) 5:12
  3. What Kind of Fool Am I? ( Leslie Bricusse , Anthony Newley ) 5:21
  4. I'll Remember April ( Gene de Paul , Patricia Johnston, Don Raye ) 4:08
  5. My Funny Valentine ( Rodgers and Hart ) 6:58
  6. Baubles, Bangles and Beads (Robert Wright, George Forrest) 4:38
  7. Turn Out the Stars (Evans) 4:56
  8. It Could Happen to You ( Jimmy Van Heusen , Johnny Burke ) 3:58
  9. In a Sentimental Mood ( Duke Ellington ) 4:18
  10. These Foolish Things (Harry Link, Jack Strachey) 4:14
  11. Some Other Time ( Bernstein , Comden , Green ) 5:28

CD 2

  1. You're Gonna Hear from Me ( André Previn , Dory Previn ) 3:32
  2. Walkin 'Up (Evans) 4:10
  3. Baubles, Bangles and Beads 4:51
  4. It's All Right with Me (Incomplete) ( Cole Porter ) 3:45
  5. What Kind of Fool Am I? 2:51
  6. How About You? ( Burton Lane , Ralph Freed ) 3:59
  7. On Green Dolphin Street ( Bronisław Kaper , Ned Washington ) 4:33
  8. Wonder Why ( Nicholas Brodszky , Sammy Cahn ) 4:13
  9. Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?) Jimmy Davis, Jimmy Sherman , Roger Ramirez 3:49
  10. You're Gonna Hear from Me (Alternate Take) 3:24

reception

Jeff Simon called the album "a wonderful find" and "an incredible find" in the Buffalo News ; while the record also reveals "the black spots and imperfections in Evans 'playing," it shares in the great pleasure of listening to Bill Evans' recordings from that period, which became the "phosphorescent burn in his final years." There are indeed many recordings from the time he worked with Eddie Gomez, but "on only a few does the bassist play as great (and well documented) as here."

Marc Myers considers the material to be an important sound document that illuminates Evans' transition from swinging romantic to percussive poet. His playing is more robust and sovereign, with pronounced chordal attacks. The retrieved documents represented a poorly recorded chapter in Bill Evans' creative journey. In 2017, the album was recognized in the JJA Jazz Awards of the Jazz Journalists Association in the category of Historic Jazz Album of the Year .

In the National Public Radio's Jazz Critics Poll at the end of 2016 , the album won third place in the Rara Avis category , after In Paris: The ORTF Recordings by Larry Young and All My Yesterdays: The Debut 1966 Recordings at the Village Vanguard by Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra .

Editorial notes

In addition to the CD edition, the album appears in a limited and numbered LP edition (180 gram vinyl); the 40-page CD booklet contains interviews with Eddie Gomez and Jack DeJohnette as well as essays by music critic Marc Myers, producer Zev Feldman and MPS sound engineer and manager Friedhelm Schulz, supplemented by photographs by David Redfern , Giuseppe Pino, Jan Persson and Hans Harzheim and two photos of the MPS session from 1968, taken by German Hasenfratz.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Some Other Time: The Lost Session from the Black Forest on Resonance Records
  2. ↑ a b c Review of the album in Buffalo News
  3. ↑ Bobby read: Review of the album in the Downbeat ( Memento of the original from April 21, 2016 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.downbeat.com
  4. ↑ Discographic information at Discogs
  5. ↑ JazzTimes Song Premiere: Bill Evans '"These Foolish Things" from Resonance Records' forthcoming "Lost Session" release in JazzTimes (2016)
  6. ↑ 2017 JJA Jazz Awards Winners
  7. ^ Francis Davis: The 2016 NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll. NPR, December 21, 2016, accessed March 31, 2019 .