{"product_id":"bill-evans-trio-moon-beams-lp","title":"Bill Evans Trio - Moon Beams (LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003eBassist Scott LaFaro's death in the early summer of 1961, just 10 days after the Bill Evans Trio's triumphant Village Vanguard engagement was a devastating personal and musical, loss to the pianist, after which he took nearly a year off from recording or playing in public. (The Vanguard performances can be heard on SUNDAY AT THE VILLAGE, WALTZ FOR DEBBY and AT THE VANGUARD.) It fell to another bassist, Chuck Israel, to bring Evans out and re-establish the Bill Evans Trio as a going concern. Possessed of a warm tone, Israels' essentially supportive playing with the Trio made for a studied contrast with the brashly virtuosic LaFaro, which was not necessarily a bad thing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs if to make up for lost time, the newly reconstituted trio recorded two albums' worth of material in June and May of 1962. MOONBEAMS is the \"softer\" of the two and introduced two graceful Evan's originals, \"Re: Person I Knew\" (an anagram of producer Orrin Keepnews's name) and the lyrical fugue \"Very Early.\" While any of the early Riverside albums make an excellent introduction to Bill Evans, MOONBEAMS is perhaps the most exquisitely romantic of the bunch, much like Coltrane's BALLADS in this respect.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Jazz\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRemember, for our lowest prices, always order directly from \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(184, 49, 47);\"\u003e Joco Records\u003c\/span\u003e!\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTrack Listing:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA1 Re: Person I Knew\u003cbr\u003eA2 Polka Dots And Moonbeams\u003cbr\u003eA3 I Fall In Love Too Easliy\u003cbr\u003eA4 Stairway To The Stars\u003cbr\u003eB1 If You Could See Me Now\u003cbr\u003eB2 It Might As Well Be Spring\u003cbr\u003eB3 In Love In Vain\u003cbr\u003eB4 Very Early\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Joco Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097667055875,"sku":"PEUD4J-9SAM-00","price":17.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/phishstonesproducts.myshopify.com\/products\/bill-evans-trio-moon-beams-lp","provider":"PhishStones Products","version":"1.0","type":"link"}