Letter to Evan

1. Letter to Evan

2. Waiting for Love

3. On Golden Pond

4. Island

5. Looking over Eastlake

6. Knit for Mary F.

7. Kathy's Waltz

8. Things Are Getting Better

9. Spring Can Really Hang You up the Most

10. Take 6

11. Blues at Sunset

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Average customer rating: An excellent album Weak offering by otherwise great artist. Letter to Evan This is the ultimate audio gift. If you like Dave Brubeck & Bill Evans, you'll love this CD.

Letter to Evan David Benoit Manufacturer: Grp Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Smooth Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Funk | R&B | Styles | Music GRP | Verve Music Group | Specialty Stores | Music Similar Items: Waiting for Spring Urban Daydreams Every Step of the Way Freedom at Midnight Shadows ASIN: B0000001SF Release Date: 1992-10-27

Tracks:

1. Letter To Evan
2. Waiting For Love
3. On Golden Pond
4. The Island
5. Looking Over Eastlake
6. Knit For Mary F.
7. Kathy' Waltz
8. Things Are Getting Better
9. Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most
10. Take 6
11. Blues At Sunset

Customer Reviews:

An excellent album.......2001-05-17

I've had this album for several years now and am also familiar with Benoits earlier more "poppish" work. Letter to Evan is more mainstream oriented than most of his previous works. This however does not detract from what is truly a beautiful album. If you enjoyed "Waiting for Spring" you'll love this album, which I'd say is slightly more up tempo. I saw David Benoit live in London in 1996 and at the show (in a tiny club) he said that of all his compositions to that point, "Letter to Evan" was his favourite, and then he went on to play it. Live and in the flesh! A great musician and a very recommendable album.

Weak offering by otherwise great artist........2000-12-14

After reading the other reviews, I had to write a review for this CD. I am a long time David Benoit fan, but I find this CD the least enjoyable Benoit CD that I own. It is a significant departure from his other work. The music is much more paced and sombre. There are songs I like on this CD, but when compared to earlier offerings like: 'This Side Up', 'Every Step of The Way', or 'Inner Motion', this CD is disappointing. Save your money and buy 'This Side Up' (his best work) instead!

Letter to Evan.......2000-02-22

David Benoit did this Cd mainly for a friend, Bill Evans. He died while his son was about 16. Letter to Evan and Knit for Mary F. are Bill Evan's compostions.

Waiting for love is a guitar based song at the beginning, then it moves into piano.

Looking over eastlake. Wow. Its great! It so jazzy and complex, and not to mention fun to listen to.

Take 6. Thats a great one to.

This is a relly good, album by David Benoit. GO FOR IT!

This is the ultimate audio gift........1998-12-12

Wouldn't it be wonderful if this genre of music were more widely disseminated. In my opinion this is Benoit at his finest. Bravo and encore, please!!

If you like Dave Brubeck & Bill Evans, you'll love this CD........1998-05-12

I am writing this in the hopes that David Benoit will read it. David: please, please, please give us, your fans, more of this music! For me, it is your crowning achievement.

Average customer rating: Strong! Interesting sampler The best CD

Bang on a Can - Cheating, Lying, Stealing Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Rzewski | Rzewski, Frederic | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Classical Music | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Classical Instrumental Music | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music ASIN: B0000029OH Release Date: 1996-04-02

Tracks:

1. Cheating, Lying, Stealing
2. The Manufacture Of Tangled Ivory: Part 1
3. Part 2
4. The Manufacture Of Tangled Ivory: Tsmindao Ghmerto
5. Red Shift
6. Amalia's Secret: An Especially Fine Dress Rag
7. Amalia's Secret: Amalia, Hanging In A Painting
8. Amalia's Secret: Two Heads Sitting Together, Snapping The Dreams Of Your Sap
9. Amalia's Secret: Swallow The Neck Of The Guest Who Hisses When You Pass
10. Amalia's Secret: Amailia's Secret
11. Amalia's Secret: The Smallest Glimmer Disturbs Them
12. Amalia's Secret: A Weak Little Gentelmen, gazing, Too Dumb to Wonder
13. Amalia's Secret: The Letter Opened, The Bottle Broken
14. Amalia's Secret: Shamefaced Smiles And The Back Of Frailty
15. Amalia's Secret: All The Debts She OwedPaid, She'd Survive This Too
16. Piano Piece No. IV
17. Arapua

Customer Reviews:

Strong!.......2006-07-27

Seems a lot of folks find Golijov shallow and it's easy to qualify. One example: he goes to that ululated falling second degree business so often when he wants pathos that it becomes a cliche. That's calculation.
On the other hand, accusations of phoniness and pretension can hardly be qualified. It's just name-calling, like right-wing talk radio.

Interesting sampler.......2006-06-13

This cd offers a snapshot of the downtown New York classical scene of the early 90s, played by one of the great new music chamber groups, the Bang on a Can All-Stars.
I find the preceding comment about "phoniness" suspect in that such accusations have little to do with the music at hand, but rather are borne of some personal resentment. It says nothing. What exactly is it that you find phony? What do you think genuine is?

The best CD.......2001-12-14

thsi Cd is great to listen to, and is one of my fav's

Average customer rating: Good Performance - bad recording! beautifully done, as usual Essential late Evans

Letter to Evan Bill Evans Trio Manufacturer: Dreyfus ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Cool Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Live Albums | Jazz | Styles | Music Cool Jazz | Live Albums | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Cool Jazz | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Modern Post Bop | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Turn Out the Stars Bill Evans Trio: The Oslo Concerts Alone (Again) Homecoming Since We Met ASIN: B000001ZSY Release Date: 1996-07-23

Tracks:

1. Emily
2. Days Of Wine And Roses
3. Knit For Mary
4. Like Someone In Love
5. Your Story
6. Stell By Starlight
7. My Man's Gone Now
8. Letter To Evan

Customer Reviews:

Good Performance - bad recording!.......2005-12-06

I was shocked at the poor recording quality on this CD (it sounds like a few I have made with my minidisc recorder in clubs). The piano has a few keys that are annoyingly out of tune and the drum solo on track 2 is very distorted. It's ok when the drums aren't overblasting the mic and Bill avoids the bad keys (I can't believe he would use this piano!).

beautifully done, as usual.......2001-05-20

Bill Evans was an extraordinarily gifted artist. My appreciation for this cd is personal, the track "Knit For Mary F" was written for my mother who was a close friend to this wonderful man. So precise and clear are the notes and played with great emotion, this cd is a classic. A Bill Evans comes along once in a lifetime. This cd is a must for the collector who is moved by Bill's sensitivity and grace. His ability to reach the heart in undeniable.

Essential late Evans.......2001-02-24

This CD (along with the "Turn Out The Stars" CD on the same label) is an essential live recording of the Bill Evans Trio at Ronnie Scott's in London during Bill's final days (released with permission of Mr. Evans' estate). These performances reveal Bill reaching a remarkable pinnacle in technique and harmonic and rhythmic inventiveness, also heard on the more high-profile CD Box Sets "The Last Waltz" (Fantasy) and "Turn out the Stars: The Final Village Vanguard Recordings" (WB). These Ronnie Scott recordings are every bit as exciting, sometimes even more freewheeling and electric in character. The sound quality is very good for a live club recording, and renditions of "Your Story", "Stella By Starlight", "Emily", and "Letter To Evan" are definitive examples of the Evans/Johnson/LaBarbera trio at its finest.

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