Bill Evans - The Complete Riverside Recordings 18 LP Box Set Near Mint

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LABEL: RIVERSIDE/FANTASY

REFERENCE: R-018

PRESSING COUNTRY: US

RECORDED: 1956-1963

RELEASED: 1984

COVER CONDITION: NM

MEDIA CONDITION: M

ATTRIBUTES: 2 BOXES OF 9 LPs EACH IN A HARD BOX SET. MINT CONDITION. RIVERSIDE/FANTASY LABEL SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION OF 5000. INCLUDES THE ORIGINAL BOOKLET

A beautiful collector's item: The 18 LP-Box Set of The Complete Riverside Recordings (R-018) is issued as a limited edition of 5000 in 1984. The set covers 151 performances containing over 13 hours of music during 20 recording sessions from 1956-1963 with lots of previously unreleased recordings and includes a 32 page fully illustrated booklet. This beautiful set contains all of Bill Evans' Riverside recordings as a leader, an extremely important period in the influential pianist's development. The first session predates Evans' period with the Miles Davis Sextet and other significant sessions include his sets with bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian (highlighted by the marathon Village Vanguard session of June 25, 1961), Evans' return nearly a year after LaFaro's death in a car accident with a new trio (consisting of Motian and bassist Chuck Israels), a sideman set with altoist Cannonball Adderley, the Interplay sessions with either trumpeter Freddie Hubbard or tenor saxophonist Zoot Sims, an extensive and rather somber solo set, and a 1963 appearance at Shelly's Manne Hole with bassist Israels and drummer Larry Bunker. Twenty sessions are released in full, 151 selections in all, including 24 performances that had been previously unissued at the time. (Scott Yanow, Allmusic)

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