BILL EVANS EXPLORATIONS AMAZING 45 RPM RARE PROMO MINT

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BILL EVANS EXPLORATIONS AMAZING 45 RPM RARE PROMO MINT

ANALOGUE PRODUCTION OF "EXPLORATIONS" BY BILL EVANS AND HIS AMAZING TRIO!  TRULY AN AMAZING SET, AMAZING SOUND ON THIS 45 RPM ISSUE!  AJAZ-9351!  THESE ARE THE HIGHLY COVETED TEST PRESSING 12 INCH 45'S.  SUPERB MINT CONDITION.  I BOUGHT THEM NEW, AM THE ONLY OWNER, AND HAVE ONLY PLAYED THEM ONE TIME.  WHAT MORE CAN I SAY EXCEPT AMAZING MUSIC, AMAZING PRODUCTION BY THE GUYS AT RTI AND AP!  THIS IS A SOLD OUT SET, AND A TEST PRESSING TO BOOT!  DON'T MISS IT.   THE PICTURE IS FOR REFERENCE ONLY, IT COMES IN A WHITE PROMO SLEEVE.

AMG REVIEW;

Review by Thom Jurek

When this album was recorded in February of 1961, it had been more than year since the Portrait in Jazz was issued, the disc that won the critics over. By the time of this issue, Evans had released four albums in six years, a pace unheard of during that time. Most musicians were issuing two, three, and even four records a year during the same era. Many speculate on Evans' personal problems at the time, but the truth of the matter lies in the recordings themselves, and Explorations proves that the artist was worth waiting for no matter what else was going on out there. Evans, with Paul Motian and Scott LaFaro, was onto something as a trio, exploring the undersides of melodic and rhythmic constructions that had never been considered by most. For one thing, Evans resurrects a number of tunes that had been considered hopelessly played out, and literally reinvents them — "How Deep Is the Ocean" and "Sweet and Lovely." His harmonic richness that extends the melodic and color palette of these numbers literally revived them from obscurity and brought them back into the canon. He also introduced "Haunted Heart" into the jazz repertoire, with a wonderfully impressionistic melodic structure, offered space, and depth by the understatement of Motian and extension by LaFaro's canny use of intervals. Also noteworthy is Miles Davis' "Nardis," which Evans first played on a Cannonball Adderley set a couple of years before. The rhythmic workout by the Motian and LaFaro places Evans' own playing in a new context, with shorter lines, chopping up the meter, and a series of arpeggios that open the ground for revelatory solo in counterpoint by LaFaro. Explorations is an extraordinary example of the reach and breadth of this trio at its peak.

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