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Bill Evans and Don Elliott - Tenderly An Informal Session (2001)
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Bill Evans, the pianist, and Don Elliott, the multi-instrumentalist, were longtime friends and colleagues. They had a band together when they were New Jersey teenagers in the mid-1940s. During Evans’ period of heavy freelance work a decade later, he frequently played in his old pal’s group. The music on this CD comes from tapes recorded by Elliott in his home studio during 1956 and 1957 as the two worked out ideas. An Informal Session, the CD’s subtitle accurately calls it. The occasional car horn filters in from outside. We plainly hear Evans straining to bend a song to his conception. We hear the musicians’ comments and laughter. “That was fun. You were cookin’, man,” Evans tells Elliott.
Elliott plays vibraharp on a few tunes. On some, he provides hi-hat cymbal sounds by rhythmically forcing air through his teeth. On one, trading four-bar phrases with Evans, he scats to simulate a drummer’s breaks. But most of the playing is from Evans, often alone. The fascination in hearing these rehearsal tapes is to follow Evans’ mental processes as he sorts out harmonies, chord voicings and rhythmic notions. The rhythmic thoughts were crucial. In a snippet of conversation at the end of their workout on the changes of “Doxy” (misidentified in the booklet as “Blues #2”), Evans talks about his ideal of group interaction.
Tenderly: An Informal Session is one of those releases that will thrill collectors but isn't recommended to casual listeners. Informal certainly describes the contents of this CD, which focuses on some no-drums, no-bass duets that pianist Bill Evans and vibist Don Elliott performed in the latter's Connecticut studio in 1956 and 1957.
The performances are essentially a jam/rehearsal -- Evans and Elliott never meant for any of these recordings to be released commercially, and they remained in the can until Fantasy assembled Tenderly in 2001. Unfortunately, the sound quality isn't great -- listenable, but not great.
There is way too much tape hiss, and recordings from 1956 and 1957 have the sort of pre-high fidelity sound you would expect from 78-era recordings. Even so, Evans' hardcore fans will enjoy this CD because it's interesting to hear the pianist in such a loose and informal setting. Evans and Elliott don't sound very focused -- Tenderly is simply two colleagues getting together, rehearsing, jamming, and having a friendly musical dialogue. Well-known standards dominate the album, although Tenderly also contains an early performance of Evans' "Funkallero" (which the pianist didn't record commercially until the early '60s). Again, Tenderly is far from essential and isn't for those who have only a casual interest in Evans' pianism -- this CD is strictly for collectors.-
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Tracklist:
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01.Tenderly
02.I'll Take Romance
03.Laura
04.Blues # 1
05.I'll Know
06.Like Someone In Love
07.Love Letters
08.Thou Swell
09.Airegin
10.Everything Happens To Me
11.Blues # 2
12.Stella By Starlight
13.Funkallero
*Milestone Records – MCD 9317-2
Personnel: Bill Evans: piano, Don Elliot: Vibraphone [Vibes],percussion.
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