Bill Evans

Europe 2014 press.
A tidy little compilation that pulls together Evans in full bop mode, showing off the more playful, swinging side before he settled into all the moody ballads. Sharp, lively, and a decent way to remind yourself he wasn’t always about candlelight melancholy. FFO: Bebop heads nodding too fast, pints that turn into doubles, finger-clicks on the wrong beat, and anyone who insists “early stuff’s the best stuff.”