Bill Evans - You Must Believe in Spring (1981) [FLAC]

This is a later release from Bill than his older famous trio recordings. It's billed as Bill Evans, but does actually feature a trio of musicians, namely, the king himself Eddie Gomez on bass, Eliot Zigmund on drums and Bill doing his usual thing on piano. This was Eddie Gomez's last album with Bill, having played with him for at least 14 years, since 1967's A Simple Matter of Conviction.

Immediately obvious about the album is how rich it sounds, each instrument is getting plenty of room to express itself and bloom. The album is played cool almost all the way through, and the uptempo numbers that do feature, are not particularly fast. I am a huge fan of Eddie Gomez, and find him severely underrated as a bassist. In this sort of "conversational" jazz idiom, Gomez is the finest bassist, I actually think he's better than Scott LaFaro, but to be fair, Gomez got a lot more time than Scott to develop his style.

Standout tracks are B Minor Waltz, Gary's Theme, Suicide is Painless (a cover of the M*A*S*H theme) and the closing track All of You.

It's one to grab for fans of beautiful sounding music.

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